UK hostage 'pleads for his life'

A video posted on an Islamist website purportedly shows a British hostage in Iraq pleading for his life. Militants have threatened to kill Kenneth Bigley unless the US and UK release all Iraqi women held in the country's prisons. The grainy video appears to show Mr Bigley pleading to UK Prime Minister Tony Blair to save him. Two US contractors kidnapped with Mr Bigley last week in Baghdad have already been killed. The UK says it has no Iraqi women in its custody. I don't want to die - please free female prisoners held in Iraqi prisons  The US is holding two female weapons scientists, Rihab Rashid Taha and Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash, but says it has no plans to release them. [more ] Pictured above: Kenneth Bigley said  "I don't want to die - please free female prisoners held in Iraqi prisons ."