Peter moore

LONDON - British national Peter Moore, who had been taken captive in Iraq in May 2007, has been freed, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said Wednesday.

LONDON - A British man abducted in Baghdad by armed militants disguised as policemen was freed Wednesday, alive and remarkably well after 2 years in captivity, the British government said.

BAGHDAD - Twin bombings - one an assassination attempt against an Iraqi provincial governor - killed 23 people and wounded the governor Wednesday in the worst violence in months to hit the western province that was once al-Qaida's top stronghold in Iraq.