The SAS is on standby to mount a rescue mission in Baghdad after five Britons were kidnapped in Baghdad in a raid by suspected Shia militants.
Iraqi police security check motorists close to the finance ministry's information section in Baghdad
Dozens of gunmen and vehicles apparently belonging to a paramilitary unit of the Iraqi interior ministry took part in an operation to snatch hostages from a government building in the heart of the Iraqi capital...........
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