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.
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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.
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