Kidnapped British Journalist May Be Freed Soon

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By: E & P Staff The captors of British journalist James Brandon, a freelance on assignment in southern Iraq for the England's Sunday Telegraph, said today they will free the reporter, according to Reuters.

Brandon had been seized earlier at his hotel in Basra.

On a videotape his captors had said he would be killed if the U.S. doesn't withdraw its forces from besieged Najaf within 24 hours.

According to reports, Shiite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr called on Brandon's captors to release him.

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