http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000087&sid=awjamIcsrkqk&refer=homeSept. 29 (Bloomberg) -- U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair said his government is prepared to communicate with those holding Kenneth Bigley, a Briton taken hostage in Iraq who appeared in a videotape aired today and pleaded for the British leader to meet his captors' demands.
``We can't make contact with them, and they have not made contact with us at all,'' Blair told reporters at the Labour Party conference in Brighton, England. ``If they did, it would be something we would respond to.''
Bigley, 62, was shown chained and behind bars, crouching and wearing an orange jumpsuit, in the tape broadcast by Qatar-based al-Jazeera. A narrator translated Bigley's remarks, in which he also said the men who kidnapped him Sept. 16 in Baghdad didn't want to kill him. Bigley's American colleagues, Eugene Armstrong and Jack Hensley, were beheaded last week.
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