Iraqi Group Releases Video of British Captive-TV

`My name is Peter ... I have been held here for nearly eight months now,` a man said on the video.

Al Arabiya television on Tuesday aired a video it said showed one of five Britons held in Iraq by a Shi'ite Muslim group for about eight months.

"My name is Peter ... I have been held here for nearly eight months now," a man said on the video. Arabiya said he called on British Prime Minister Gordon Brown to free nine Iraqis to gain the release of the five.

"It's as simple as that. It's a simple exchange of people ... That's all they want. Just to have their people released and we can go home," he said.

"I miss my family a lot and the only thing I want is to get out of here. I tell Gordon Brown: Free their prisoners and we can go home," the man said, in remarks dubbed into Arabic by the television.

The Britons -- a computer instructor and his four bodyguards -- were seized by gunmen from inside an Iraqi Finance Ministry building in Baghdad in May.

In a statement shown by the television station, a group calling itself the Shi'ite Islamic Resistance in Iraq said: "We are addressing you the British people and not your government because your are keener than your government and your Queen (for the release of the five)."

The statement indicated that some or all of the nine were held by U.S.-forces.