UK News 05-10-2004 who: Kidnapped British civilian Kenneth Bigley what: Has been traded to other militant group, say reports where: Baghdad, Iraq when: Yesterday snippet: A Kuwaiti newspaper is reporting that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has handed the engineer to the gang that exchanged two Italian women aid workers last week for a $1million ransom, explains The Times. The Independent, however, reckons the original captors trying to ascertain Mr Bigley`s nationality and quotes an Islamic website as claiming that: "The captors have asked for clarification of his Irish heritage. They stated that they...`The Irish have fought like us to wipe the stain of English imperialism, murder and rape from their lands`." [... more]

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