Two Dead Men

No nice way to say this. The release of a live terrorist leader bought in return two sets of remains. That's always a bad trade.

LONDON, June 20 (Reuters) - Britain is checking whether two bodies passed by Iraqi authorities to British officials in Iraq may be those of two men taken hostage in May 2007, Foreign Secretary David Miliband said on Saturday.

My condolences and hope that the remains *aren't* two of the five kidnapped. It's the only hope to have, frankly.

See the related articles Hopes dashed and One al-Khazali let go here at CompHyp earlier this month.

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Updated, Sunday.

The British government has announced that the two bodies have been provisionally identified as two of the five kidnapped: Jason Creswell, originally from Glasgow in Scotland, and Jason Swindlehurst, from northwest England.