Five British nationals who were kidnapped in Baghdad more than a year ago are still alive and Iraqi army know where they are being held captive, Iraq\'s top security official has said. “We have a very good, strong intelligence telling us they are alive and we roughly know the area where they are,” Mr Mowaffak al-Rubaie, Iraq\'s National Security Advisor, told the BBC yesterday. “But we don\'t want to be aggressive in our approach, not to risk their lives.” The British nationals, an IT consultant and his four bodyguards, were seized at the Iraqi finance ministry in May 2007. The IT consultant has been identified as Peter Moore, hailing from Lincoln, working for a US management consultancy. Mr Rubaie spoke to the BBC after meeting a senior Anglican churchman who visited Baghdad. The Right Reverend Mr Michael Lewis met senior religious and political figures including Ayatollah Hussain Sadr, cousin of the radical Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. Appealing for the men\'s release, the bishop said: “It can be an appeal that remembers the families of the five who are held and I make that appeal.” n PTI
