(Anglican) Vicar flees Baghdad after threats

[Eugene]

Source: BBC News

Last Updated: Wednesday, 11 July 2007, 11:57 GMT 12:57 UK

Vicar flees Baghdad after threats

A vicar who has been working to secure the release of five
British hostages in Iraq has fled the country after being
denounced as a spy.

Canon Andrew White, who ran Iraq's only Anglican church,
left Baghdad amid fears for his safety.

The five Britons' abductors reportedly threatened to kill
them unless the vicar stopped trying to find them.

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'Serious threat'

Canon White left Baghdad after pamphlets dropped in Shia
areas of the Iraqi capital reportedly branded the vicar
as "no more than a spy".

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Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6291168.stm

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Source: Associated Press

Anglican Priest Flees Iraq Amid Threats

Wednesday July 11, 2007 4:16 PM

By ROBERT H. REID

Associated Press Writer

BAGHDAD (AP) - An Anglican priest who may have received
a cryptic warning of the failed car bombings in London and
Glasgow has fled Iraq after threats against his life, an
associate said Wednesday.

Canon Andrew White, a British national who ran Iraq's only
Anglican church, left the country Tuesday and returned to
Britain, the associate said on condition of anonymity, saying
the British Foreign Office had asked that it be the only
source of information on the case.

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Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6772247,00.html

[shenmue]

1. At least he's out of there

:scared: