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THE three peace activists freed by an SAS-led coalition force after being held hostage in Iraq for four months refused to co- operate fully with an intelligence unit sent to debrief them, a security source claimed yesterday.
The claim has infuriated those searching for other hostages.
Gen Sir Mike Jackson, the chief of the defence staff, told Channel 4 News: "I am slightly saddened that there does not seem to have been a note of gratitude for the soldiers who risked their lives to save those lives.''
Asked if he meant that Norman Kember, the British peace activist freed on Thursday, had not said thank you, he said: "I hope he has and I have missed it.''
Neither the men nor the Canadian group that sent them to Iraq have thanked the people who saved them in any of their public statements.
Mr Kember, 74, a retired physics professor, of Pinner, north- west London, was in...