Posted on 12/09/2005 1:56:13 PM PST by NYjarcola
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Sunni clerics and Baghdad residents appealed on Friday for the release of an American and three other Christian humanitarian workers kidnapped by a group that has threatened to kill them.
The hostages — Tom Fox, 54, of Clear Brook, Va.; Norman Kember, 74, of London; and Canadians James Loney, 41, and Harmeet Singh Sooden, 32 — are members of the Christian Peacemaker Teams and were abducted in Baghdad on Nov. 26.
Sunni Arab clerics also took the opportunity of Friday's prayers to urge a big turnout in next week's elections, saying voting was a "religious duty" that could hasten the departure of American troops.
Sporadic violence left two people dead in Baghdad on Friday, one day after a homicide bomber detonated explosives inside a packed bus bound for the southern Shiite city of Nasiriyah, killing 32 people and wounding 44.
A U.S. military medical evacuation helicopter also made a "hard landing" in Tarmiyah 30 miles north of the capital. No one was injured.
The Canadian Islamic Congress sent an envoy, Ehab Lotayef, to Iraq to try to win the release of the humanitarian workers who were abducted two weeks ago. They include two Canadians and a Briton as well as the American.
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I'm starting to think this is all a ruse now. Just think, they get captured, there's pleading for their release......and they get released. See, those nice terrorists are just misunderstood.
The U.S. Government should just admit that these 4 hostages are actually spies. While obviously not true, the results would be hilarious.
Yep. We will be hearing, "See how open dialogue works"?
My son is a combat medic. He hates helicopters :-)
HOAX, HOAX, HOAX
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