While Foreign Office officials will not confirm or deny the widespread media reports here that two Britons employed as private security guards in Iraq have died in captivity, various accounts point to the likelihood that Alan McMenemy and Alec MacLachlan are probably dead.

VOA: standard.2009.07.29

Many of the temporary workers came from Spain and Poland, and foreign workers were shown receiving the worst harassment from security guards.

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