condolences to the family. fn MSM is worried about wire taping ppl like the ones who just killed this innocent american..
And to think, many Freepers don't believe in Darwinism.
God be with his family, and welcome His servant into His loving arms.
I am sick of them beheading and killing whoever they please. I dont mean to offend anyone but I am thinking about how these monsters dont mind dying for their "cause" and how they go to heaven and get 100 virgins or whatever. So I think for every person the terrorists kill we should take maybe 100 of them and kill them by disembowellment. Which consists of being disembowelled, and the genitalia and entrails burned before the victim's eyes; the heart was the last to be removed and was then shown to the victim before the entrails were burned. Yes I am barbaric, but so are they and if I have offended anyone I am sorry. But enough is enough! And yes I am a fan of torture if it will prevent another 9/11 or more terror attacks.
I work every damn day, Bill Gates works, Warren Buffett works, George Will works, Guvnor Arnold works, Bob Dylan works, heck, even the Swimmer works, but these Tom Foxes, Cindy Sheehans, Rachel Corries just travel the world and protest? What's wrong and why is it that no one in the media is ever asking this very basic question?
Rule #2 -- If you ever get the urge to travel to a dysfunctional Third World Islamic sh!t-hole like Iraq, see Rule #1.
In my next life I'll be a professional protester too. I'll protest in Monaco (casino), Czech Republic (beer), Switzerland (army knives), Macao (hookers), Hong Kong (electronics and three piece suits), Singapore (no spitting), Argentina (beef), Andorra, Palm Springs (weather.)
I would have assumed he was dead already. RIP though.
Well, there goes my theory he was a patsy.
If we were serious about ending this we'd simply announce that everytime a terrorist beheaded an american citizen we'd raze a large town in the region the crime occurred and kill all the occupants.
Pretty soon the village inhabitants in the rest of the towns would be so inspired to prevent terrorism this sort of thing would quit happening.
prayers with his family. hopefully this "peace group" wont send any more naive young men and women to their deaths
Tom Fox, you should have known better than to mingle with those vile serpents. I'm sort of sorry you were killed, well, I'm not so sure. At least your death is helping to prove a point and it wasn't some innocent person snatched off the streets of Cleveland by a bunch of Muslim fantatics. Good luck in the afterworld.
~ Blue Jays ~
more updated story for you all
WASHINGTON - An American who was among four Christian activists kidnapped last year in Iraq has been killed, a State Department spokesman said Friday.
The FBI verified that a body found in Iraq Friday morning was that of Tom Fox, 54, of Clear Brook, Va., spokesman Noel Clay said. He said he had no information on the other three hostages.
Clay said he did not know how Fox was killed but said additional forensics will be done in the United States. The U.S. Embassy in Baghdad is investigating, he said.
Fox's family has been notified, Clay said, and "our heartfelt condolences go out to them."
"The State Department continues to call for the unconditional release of all other hostages" in Iraq, the spokesman said.
Fox's organization, Christian Peacemaker Teams, said Friday, "We mourn the loss of Tom Fox, who combined a lightness of spirit, a firm opposition to all oppression, and the recognition of God in everyone."
Christian Peacemaker co-directors Doug Pritchard and Carol Rose said in a statement, "In response to Tom's passing, we ask that everyone set aside inclinations to vilify or demonize others, no matter what they have done."
"This guy was not after martyrdom by any means," said Paul Slattery of McLean, Va., who was a member of Fox's U.S.-based support team. "He actually believed in his heart that he would better them by his conviction and his beliefs and his skills, and I think largely succeeded.
"What he leaves behind is a tremendous challenge for the rest of us and a guiding force."
Fox was the one American among four Christian Peacemaker activists kidnapped last year in Iraq.
On Tuesday, Al-Jazeera television aired footage of the three other activists purportedly appealing to their governments to secure their release.
The hostages seen in the brief video dated Feb. 28 were Canadians James Loney, 41, and Harmeet Singh Sooden, 32; and Briton Norman Kember, 74.
Allan Slater, a Canadian member of Christian Peacemaker Teams, said at the time that he was disturbed not to see Fox.
"We certainly are hopeful when we see three of our friends alive, but also it's very distressing that we didn't see Tom Fox, and I wouldn't want to hide that because I'm sure it's very distressful for Tom's family and friends as well," Slater told The Canadian Press from Baghdad.
The previously unknown Swords of Righteousness Brigades claimed responsibility for kidnapping the four workers, who disappeared Nov. 26.
The four had not been heard from since a videotape aired by Al-Jazeera on Jan. 28, dated from a week before. A statement reportedly accompanying that tape said the hostages would be killed unless all Iraqi prisoners were released from U.S. and Iraqi prisons. No deadline was set.
Iraqi and Western security officials repeatedly warned the activists before their abduction that they were taking a grave risk by moving around Baghdad without bodyguards.
Christian Peacemaker Teams had been working in Iraq since October 2002, investigating allegations that U.S. and Iraqi forces abused Iraqi detainees. Its teams host human rights conferences in conflict zones, promoting peaceful solutions.
Slattery said Fox worked on three major projects: helping families of incarcerated Iraqis, escorting shipments of medicine to clinics and hospitals in Fallujah and helping form Islamic Peacemaker Teams.
In the three years since the U.S.-led coalition invaded Iraq, insurgents have kidnapped at least 250 foreigners and killed at least 40 of them.
In one of the most high-profile cases, Jill Carroll, a freelance writer for The Christian Science Monitor, was kidnapped Jan. 7 in Baghdad. Three videotapes of Carroll delivered by her kidnappers to Arab satellite television stations identified the group holding her as the Revenge Brigades.
Carroll's kidnappers have publicly demanded the release of all female detainees in Iraq. The Monitor launched a campaign on Iraqi television stations Wednesday asking Iraqis, in Arabic, to "Please help with the release of journalist Jill Carroll." The list of those kidnapped and killed in Iraq includes Margaret Hassan, the director of CARE international in Iraq and a citizen of Britain, Ireland and Iraq; Ronald Schulz, an industrial electrician from Anchorage, Alaska; Nicholas Berg, a businessman from West Chester, Pa.; Jack Hensley, a civil engineer from Marietta, Ga.; and Eugene "Jack" Armstrong, formerly of Hillsdale, Mich.
Killed the only American of the four.
MUSLIMDEATHCULT.......... how appropriate
Lets see their dictator-King get in front of the world media and condemn this vicious murder by his fellow Muslims done in the name of their so-called god!
Of course that will never happen cause they are also true believers of Islam that demands the violent death of all who reject the horrible and violent musings of its fatal prophet!
It makes me sick to hear our President praise these people and kowtow to them!
May God Almighty deliver all of mankind from the murderous bloody hands of the Islamic fascists!
I can't believe anyone has sympathy for this person.
you play with fire, and get burned.
tough
I was sick to my stomach when I heard this. It also sickens me that not much has been reported about the many Iraqi Christians who died in this war.