Talk:Dean McLoughlin
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Current head of Islamic Media Unit
Pointers
His first major media appearance was when he made an appeal in Arabic during a Hostage crisis in Iraq 19 September 2004. [1]
"As the hostage deadline neared, there were signs of a shift by the Foreign Office, which distanced itself from the US in an appeal on the al-Arabiya television station by an Arabic-speaking British diplomat, Dean McLoughlin. He emphasised to the hostage takers that the Americans were holding the women, not the British. He said: "The British forces in Iraq have no Iraqi female prisoners, not one."
The statement was the first clear attempt by Britain to disown the actions of the US." [2]
