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The vicar working on the release of five Britons held hostage in Baghdad has fled Iraq because of what has been described as “a serious security threat”.

Canon Andrew White, who last week said he was warned by a member of al-Qaeda months ago about the nature of the failed terror attacks in London and Glasgow, today announced that he had left the country because of fears for his safety.

It has been reported that the kidnappers of the five Britons threatened to kill them unless Canon White, who works at the last Anglican church in Iraq, stopped trying to find out where they were.

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Unconfirmed reports in the London-based newspaper Al-Quds al-Arabi website said that pamphlets, dropped in Shia areas of Baghdad, demanded his immediate departure from Iraq and said he was no more than a spy.

The British Embassy in Baghdad confirmed that the vicar had been working on the release of the five Britons taken hostage last month, who “are his friends” ane he had decided to leave Iraq because of the threat.

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