Aid group makes plea for Western hostages in Iraq (praises terrorists attacks US)

Reuters ^ | December 4 2005

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The director of an aid group appealed on Saturday to the abductors of four Western hostages held in Iraq to release them, saying they were working in the country to help free Iraqi prisoners.

Rich Mayer, director of Christian Peacemaker Teams, told the Arabic Al Jazeera television that the four captives -- two Canadians, an American and a Briton -- had been working in Iraq to help relatives locate people held prisoner in Iraq.

He made his comments one day after Iraqi insurgents holding the four threatened in a videotape to kill them unless Iraqi detainees held in prisons run by the Iraqi government and U.S. forces were released by Dec. 8.

"We are working on revealing the occupation's violence and acts. Those people (hostages) are believers who work against the occupation," Mayer told Al Jazeera.

"So we appeal for their release so they can continue their work on your behalf and on behalf of the Iraqi people."

Asked if he was worried about the hostages' lives, Mayer said: "We are worried about the lives of these people. But we know that thousands of Iraqis are held illegally by the U.S. forces in prisons that violate international law and in worse conditions than these four."

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We are working on revealing the occupation's violence and acts. Those people (hostages) are believers who work against the occupation," Mayer told Al Jazeera.

They went to Iraq to expose who the real bad guys are. I'd say they succeeded.

[Baraonda]

I wonder if this "Christian" group it's truly Christian. Christians do not and should not go into enemy territory like Iraq or Africa to help the enemy, all at the expense and detriment of our people and culture.

It's a lesson they must learn the hard way. They made their choice and must now pay the consequences.