THE British hostage in Iraq, Kenneth Bigley, appeared huddled in a cage in a videotape broadcast on the satellite news channel Al-Jazeera today.
Dressed in orange overalls and crouched, an exhausted-looking and unshaven Mr Bigley is heard saying: "He doesn't care about me," in an apparent reference to British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
"I'm only one ... just one person," he adds.
Mr Bigley's hands and feet were shown tied with a rope that also went around his neck. The metal cage, in front of a brick wall, did not appear high enough for him to stand up.
According to the Qatar-based station, the 62-year-old hostage called on Mr Blair "to work to free Iraqi prisoners" and said his "kidnappers do not want to kill him".
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