AN Iraqi rebel group has claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of French engineer Bernard Planche, threatening to kill him if France did not "end its illegitimate presence in Iraq" in a video broadcast by Al-Arabiya television. The group, calling itself the "Batallion of the Look-out for Iraq", claimed the kidnapping and "threatened to kill him if France does not end its illegitimate presence in Iraq," said the channel's presenter. The Dubai-based channel showed a black-and-white video bearing the group's logo and showing a man with a moustache wearing a dark polo shirt along with two gunmen stood behind him. The...