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A Briton who was held hostage in Iraq for almost four months said he considered suicide because he thought it might help his fellow captives. "I thought it might help the Canadians, if they got rid of the Brit," said Norman Kember, who was abducted along with two Canadians and an American, Tom Fox. Fox was later killed. Britain participated in the U.S.-led invasion and occupation of Iraq, but Canada did not. "I got very depressed at one stage. ... When you're really depressed you think of suicide but there aren't any means of doing it," Kember, 74, told British...

Briton Norman Kember and his Canadian colleagues James Loney and Harmeet Singh Sooden were freed after a multinational military raid acting on information provided by a detainee, the US military says. The rescue was completed without any shots being fired and with no kidnappers present, suggesting the operation was carefully planned and carried out. But the crucial bit of intelligence that enabled the rescue came only after two men were captured by US forces on Wednesday night. One of the suspects had the information which led officials to the Baghdad house where the hostages were four months into their ordeal....