A crisis beyond five hostages

The Telegraph's front-page story musters as much gung-ho optimism as it reasonably can. "SAS on alert to rescue snatched Britons ... A crisis team [has] been assembled with police hostage negotiators, MI6 officials and Arabic linguists preparing to fly out to Baghdad. On the ground the crisis team will liaise with the SAS. Norman Kember, the 76-year-old Christian peace activist, was freed in an SAS operation in Baghdad last year."