UK hostage's brother claims home raided

[rooboy]

The brother of a British hostage held in Iraq says intelligence officers have raided his Dutch home, copied data from his computer and forced him to make a five-page statement about his activities.

Paul Bigley, brother of hostage Kenneth Bigley, says the raid happened two days ago.

However, a spokeswoman for the British Foreign Office says neither British nor Dutch officials have carried out such a raid.

"There was no raid," she said. "No British officials of any kind have raided Paul Bigley's home."

Mr Bigley says the raid had made him feel like a criminal and had wasted time in the race to save his brother's life.

"I've lost 48 hours of my quest to get Ken free because of all this nonsense," he told Sky Television News.

"It was incredible.

"I understand that people have to check things out... but there are ways of doing these things."

Mr Bigley says Dutch and British officers raided his home in the Netherlands, where he runs his own business.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200410/s1211856.htm

[w4rma]

1. If there was no raid, why isn't there an investigation into who raided?

Seems to me that breaking and entering, fraud, impersonating police officers and/or federal agents would be some pretty serious crimes.

[Kagemusha]

2. Unfortunately we can't assume anything really

No reason for a denial to be taken at face value...