Ken Bigley well treated by captors: Telegraph

I posted earlier that I thought that the Amsterdam home of Ken Bigley's brother was raided because the brother was an embarrassment to Blair. I have now found (on a pro-war blog maintained by a guy calling himself Eric) that the Daily Telegraph. seems to have lent itself to a smear campaign against Ken Bigley himself. This link is to a Telegraph. article dated 2/10/2004. This is the quote from the article that "Eric" ran with:

"British hostage free? [the headline is Eric's - even the Telegraph wouldn't dare stoop to that]

Dutch intelligence officers raided the home of Kenneth Bigley's brother last night. An intelligence officer from the Foreign Office is understood to have accompanied them to Paul Bigley's home in Amsterdam.

The raid came amid claims that the British hostage was free to roam his kidnappers' home in Iraq and was "caged" only for terrorist videos.

Paul Bigley's computer was seized and he was interrogated about his alleged contact with the Tawhid and Jihad group, which yesterday claimed responsibility for Thursday's killing of at least 35 children in Baghdad."

And here are the comments:

4 Comments:

At 12:00 PM, David said...

And this amid increasing concern that the two italian women were not in any real danger but co-operated fully with their kidnappers'? Hmmm

His brother spent a long time in the ME yet Bigley did not follow the simplest of rules on personal safety, using a flash 4x4, same routine etc......

'Something is not right'

At 8:51 PM, miklos rosza said...

Don't forget the Japanese "hostages" whose captivity turned out also to have very possibly been fake; there was also an Australian woman who briefly claimed to have been taken, only to call a press conference and denounce the war. All of these people are the equivalents of the "human shields," whose only real concern seems to have been their vanity and specious moral superiority. They will go down in history as moral cretins on a par with Oswald Mosley and the other Nazi sympathizers of 60 years ago.

At 10:49 PM, Anonymous said...

I don't think the two Americans who were murdered would take too kindly to accusations that they were colluing in the whole thing.

At 7:34 AM, Anonymous said...

I don't think that accusation has been leveled.

Chris

Now there's a hard right wing hate site in America that has denounced a freed former captive as a collaborator, a stooge, a quisling and so on. But even they had the decency to wait til he was free. This "Eric" couldn't wait that long and now he won't be able. As everyone now knows, Ken Bigley was murdered last night.