They didn’t know where Ken was being held and their intensive bombardment of this new target appears to have frightened the captors into drastic action.

I still think that their original intention was to keep him until closer to the UK elections.

I’d lay money on if this had been a relative of the Blairs, it would have been dealt with in a much different way.

The fact that this man has been allowed to be tortured and murdered disgusts me. This is the human!!!! price of your bloody war Mr Blair….

"he did not want to get drawn into a situation of response and counter-response "

"he did not think it would be helpful to get drawn into commenting"

The best thing about democracy, the best thing of all; is the dialogue between the government and the public. Scintillating.