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"Iraqi Shiite Resistance" Offers To Trade British Hostage For Shoe Tosser

By CBS Investigates

December 22, 2008 / 11:04 AM EST / CBS News

(Iraqi Shiite Islamic Resistance )

A spokesperson for the Iraqi Shiite Islamic Resistance said his group was willing to trade one of four British contractors held hostages in Iraq since 2007 for al Baghdadiya correspondent Montadhar al Zeidi, who tossed his shoe at President George W. Bush at a press conference in Baghdad last week.
Abu Fatma al Bodeori made the offer in a phone call to al Rai TV, adding that the group would also release the three remaining hostages in exchange for the release of a number of Iraqi prisoners.
The group had initially seized five British men from the ministry of finance in Baghdad in May 2007. In July 2008, the group announced that one of the five hostages has committed suicide.
The first video shows the will of a young man identified as Mohammed Hisham, who was one of the trainees in a camp run by Zakir. It is unclear how both men died.