A video grab taken from television footage released on August 13, 2004, shows British journalist James Brandon in Iraq. Gunmen kidnapped a British journalist in the southern city of Basra on Friday and threatened to execute him within 24 hours if U.S. forces did not pull out of Najaf. The gunmen later said they would release the Sunday Telegraph reporter Brandon after Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's office intervened. REUTERS/HO MD/GB