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UK Govt Rejected Offer Of Help To Free Hostage
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Mr Begg, from Birmingham, said he was approached by Mr Henning's friends in December 2013, just after the 47-year-old taxi driver from Eccles, Greater Manchester, was taken hostage.
He said he spoke to former Foreign Office minister Alistair Burt to explain that he would be making calls to IS, but it was for the sole purpose of securing Mr Henning's release.
Mr Begg said: "I sat with him and spoke with him for quite some time, we had exchanges, phone calls, text messages. In the end they said that they didn't need my help.
"I said that I didn't come here to seek your help, I simply came to register with you the interventions that I'm going to try to make.
"A few weeks later literally I was arrested."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-29518323