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Iraqi officials may have colluded in kidnap of Britons
It was about midday on 29 May 2007 when between 80 and 100 men dressed in the uniform of the special commandos at the Iraqi ministry of the interior calmly blocked off all the major roads leading to the ministry of finance's technology centre in Baghdad.
An estimated 19 Toyota Land Cruisers, known to be used only by the ministry of the interior, drove through armed roadblocks and came to a standstill in front of the building where Peter Moore, a British computer specialist, another analyst and four security guards were working.
Moore, who had recently arrived in the country from voluntary work in Guyana, was in the process of installing sophisticated software for the US state department that would have tracked millions of pounds of international aid money, and the estimated $50bn Iraqi annual oil revenue, as it was disbursed through the ministry of finance.