Posted on 03/11/2006 6:01:04 AM PST by jimbo123
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- American hostage Tom Fox -- who was kidnapped with three other Christian peace activists in November -- has been found shot in the head with his body showing signs of torture, Iraqi emergency police told CNN Saturday.
There was no word on the whereabouts of Fox's fellow hostages -- Canadians James Loney, 41, and Harmeet Singh Sooden, 32, and 74-year-old Briton Norman Kember -- who were last seen in a video broadcast Tuesday on Arab television.
Fox's body was found wrapped in a blanket around 5 p.m. Thursday in the Daoudi neighborhood in western Baghdad -- dumped on the main road near a train station. His hands and feet were bound, police said. He was wearing gray trousers and a gray shirt.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Mr Fox had his eyes opened just before they were closed forever.
O gentle religion of muhammed
such as tom fox might have said
he met his end with your bullets
at least he didn't lose his head.
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/world/story.html?id=612e758a-8aba-4e75-a958-14b0a10c8c9b
An Iraqi police patrol was also at the scene, said Falah al-Mohammedawi, an official with the Interior Ministry, which oversees police. He said Fox was found with his hands tied and gun shot wounds to his head and chest. There were cuts on his body and bruises on his head, al-Mohammedawi said.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1139395580632&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Fox, from Clear Brook, Virginia, had demonstrated in the West Bank town of Jayyus against the construction of the security fence and he helped Palestinians pick olives, local Palestinians said.
"Tom used to sit in front of the (Israeli) bulldozers to block them," said Jayyus' mayor, Shawka Shamha. "Hearing news that he was killed makes me very sad."
This will be Jill Carroll's fate after her captors get tired of raping her.
prayers for his family and soul
And his executioners shouted, "Allahu Akbar!" as they pumped him full of 7.62mm rounds.
Every snuff flick we see in country ends with the exact same formula.
Fox's last words were most likely a pathetic, "Why do you hate me?"
No sympathy. Better men than him lie wounded in Walter Reed.
That is exactly why I fear them!... because I know these are a different kind of "human beings" (/sarcasm). I know they would not mind blowing away 100,000 people if they could... they are the personification of "hate" itself.
I am sorry about Mr. Fox's unnecessary death. But I have to say -- the Peace Activists and Human Shields who go over there to LOVE the evil people should have to post security bonds before they leave, so THEY can be the ones who pay off the b**&turds when they demand money.
They go over there, mewling and pandering, are surprised by Reality, and then WE the taxpayers have to bail them out. And we end up funding our enemies to gain their release. When they don't represent us in the first place.
If they were our teenagers, we would be doing Tough Love.
My guess is that their organization won't learn a thing and will send more people into the fires of hell.
How did 'we the taxpayers' bail out Tom Fox?
Bet he was wishing he was in the hands of those same "evil" Israelis at the end, though! He appears to have been a well-meaning fool and I am sorry that it ended this way for him; but maybe other people who want to go olive picking with the Palestinians, mischief-making in Iraq, etc. will take notice.
But I read that this "peace" group he was involved with was looking into Iraqi prisoners claims that they are being tortured by American troops..... Looks like his group is on the wrong side of the war on terror if you ask me.
This is so basic that even the original STAR TREK got this one right. I don't want to trivialize this, but go back and watch the episode where Kirk and the gang beam down to the planet where they wage war by computer. As I recall, the idiot ambassador almost gets everybody killed. Happily, the "barbarian" Kirk blows up the computer ending the genocidal game.
The unfortunate hostages in Iraq must have felt about like the Ambassador in the Star Trek episode when he was informed by the alien council leader that he was to be killed. Too bad, the hostages didn't have the savvy but bloodthirsty Kirk and Scotty to save them. Let's hope America does not have to invoke "General Order 4" to bring the islamo-fascists to heel.
"He and Chicago co-director Carol Rose blamed the U.S. involvement in Iraq, backed by Britain, for the captives' dilemma, and urged both nations to release detained Iraqis."
this quotation is from the co-directors of the peace organization to which fox and the other hostages belong.
(it is from the article.)
Think other "peace activists" will get it?
Or will they wallow in self pity?
this group only protests oppression when it is being done by the US Canada, or Israel. (they have a web site i checked out awhile back.)
they don't protest much against oppression by communist or islamic regimes.
once the other hostages are murdered, this group will leave iraq and go back to canada and the US, where it is safe, and continue protesting against our evil oppressiveness.
"the idiot ambassador almost gets everybody killed"
Their primary function, apparently.
Every time these idiots go to Iraq, they give aid and comfort to the enemy and it costs American lives. But they don't care about you or me or American soldiers. They're narcissists who think they're better, smarter than everyone else. They're out to 'change the world'. Sound like MSM Journalism school graduates? They're all peas in the same pod.
Lemmings.
The thinking, if you can call it that, behind targeting the US and the west -- accusing us of the atrocity of the day and ignoring Jihad -- is publicity. The fact that we were attacked, in their view, simply means we deserved it. Why? Because we work hard and live well and most Arabs don't. This isn't fair. As if life is fair! Somehow the US should have fixed the Middle East so that Arabs lived high off the hog. That, however, would have been colonialism...and that's a dirty word.
Yes, he may have been a little misguided in his seemingly pro-terrorist activism, but he deserves prayes rather than scorn. Even for the cold-hearted, there is no comprehensible sense in belittling the dead. The man suffered terribly. He and his loved ones have my prayers.
>I wonder what the fellow "peace activists" are thinking now ... . Pissed? Digging their heels in for more "martyrs"? Shocked into reality? What?<
Oh, come now. You know the answer. They're really, really mad that George Bush made the widdle jehadis kill Tom Fox. They blame America, and the bad US military, but most of all...
It's Bush's Fault®!
When is the UN going to come arrest them for violating the Geneva convention?
I have no idea... this is a world I simply don't understand!... I am sure they must be shocked!...and will be even more it the kill that other woman reporter... that would be something.
The kidnappings are for cash which is often paid. This money feeds the terrorists.
Hurts our troops and prolongs the agony of the Iraqi people who would like to live their lives in peace.
Don't count on it.
Agreed.
Isn't this wonderful:
"A music major, Fox graduated from college in May 1973. Though he was unwilling to participate in U.S. military actions in Vietnam, he auditioned for and earned a spot in the Marine Band, based in Washington, where he played to support his family."
Consciencious objector Quaker joins the Corps? More like an opportunist joined to pay off his college loans. Reminds me of the boy who joined the Corps to pay for college and when he decided it wasn't his cup of tea- swallowed water at Parris Island.
He must have been the flutist.
I bit my fingers to keep from typing something to that effect ; )
It's sad that people are so *** stupid/dumb. Excuse my French. What a wasted life.
Certainly doesn't look like he, or we, got our money's worth.
I finally found out on the news that this guy is a Quaker. First, Quaker meeting houses have over the years become headquarters for nothing more religious than "peace" organizations which, themselves, only desire peace in the context of stopping the American military under a Republican president. Second, even genuine Quakers don't view themselves as Christian. Theirs is a revealed religion. That is, God speaks directly to them. Christ and indeed any scripture of any kind is meaningless.
I wonder if his true last words might have been, "But we had a deal!"
From their statment on their website(http://www.cpt.org/iraq/response/06-10-03statement.htm):
"In response to Tom’s passing, we ask that everyone set aside inclinations to vilify or demonize others, no matter what they have done. In Tom’s own words: "We reject violence to punish anyone. We ask that there be no retaliation on relatives or property. We forgive those who consider us their enemies. We hope that in loving both friends and enemies and by intervening nonviolently to aid those who are systematically oppressed, we can contribute in some small way to transforming this volatile situation."
Even as we grieve the loss of our beloved colleague, we stand in the light of his strong witness to the power of love and the courage of nonviolence. That light reveals the way out of fear and grief and war."
So they obviously don't get it.
You are correct.
I wonder the same thing. This week I've been reading some 'devotionals' from a pastor who would probably fit in well with these people. He's been receiving emails back describing the Old Testament wars you speak of. Here is part of his response:
"Earlier this week I heard from a reader (actually I have heard from several dozen readers every day) who wanted me to know that the biblical way to wage war was to utterly annihilate and completely destroy the enemy. He gave some Old Testament examples. They aren't hard to find. The one above from Joshua isn't unusual at all, arguing that God blessed Joshua's troops so they could kill 12,000 men and women but save the livestock and whatever else they found valuable as booty.
I wrote back. (I normally answer all emails but haven't even tried given the deluge I've received this week) I challenged him with the words of Jesus that we are called to love our enemy and pray for those who persecute us. He wasn't convinced. Oh well, at least we're talking.
My point wasn't to win an argument. That part is irrelevant to me. The point, as it always is, is to grapple with the faith. To wrestle with the Bible until, like the angel in the wilderness with Isaac, God gives us a blessing. The war in Iraq is but one example where people of faith, people of all faiths for that matter, are forced to struggle with faithful ideals and physical raw deals."
It is next to impossible to speak reason with people like this.
We didn't bail him out. But when the IslamoPigs demand ransom, good people spring for it. Often governments. ie taxpayers. Do we pay ransoms? Sometimes I bet we do.
Indeed, before Mr. Fox's body was even cold, I heard a spokesperson for the organization to which he belonged "forgive" his killers.
I don't think they will get it. They will just blame Bush for Tom Fox's death. Just like that dad blamed Bush for his son/ Nicholas Berg's death.
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