The government confirmed today that Moore has been handed over to British authorities in Baghdad.
Moore, an IT consultant from Lincoln, was one of a group of five British men who were seized at the Iraqi Ministry of Finance in Baghdad in May 2007. He had been working for American management consultancy BearingPoint and was installing asset tracing software at the Finance Ministry at the time.
Three of the other hostages who were captured at the same time were later shot dead and their bodies flown back to the UK. Alan McMenemy, a security guard from Glasgow, is understood to remain a hostage in Iraq.
The group was captured by about 40 men disguised as Iraqi policeman, believed to belong to an obscure militia known as the Islamic Shia Resistance.
Foreign Secretary David Miliband said Moore is "in good health despite many months in captivity" and is "to put it mildly absolutely delighted at his release".
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