The bodies of two British soldiers, who their government says may have been executed, have been found in a shallow grave in Iraq, a spokeswoman for Britain's Ministry of Defence said on Monday. The bodies of 36-year-old Simon Cullingworth and 24-year-old Luke Allsopp were found near Al Zubayr, outside Basra in the south of the country. "The circumstances of the soldiers' deaths remain unclear," the spokeswoman said. Last month, the Qatar-based news channel Al Jazeera showed pictures of two dead Britons in uniform surrounded by an exultant mob. The British Government said the two soldiers "may well have been executed", though Iraqi Information Minister Mohammad Saeed al-Sahaf [Comical Ali] said Iraq had not executed anyone.
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