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Christian Aid Workers Freed In Iraq
MetroSource News | 03/23/2006 | Alisha Mathis

Posted on 03/23/2006 1:49:10 AM PST by prisoner6

MetroSource News 03/23/2006 02:32:46 Iraq Christians Freed URGENT

>>Christian Aid Workers Freed In Iraq

(Baghdad) -- Three Christian aid workers kidnapped in Iraq have been freed following what's being described as "a planned operation mounted by the Multinational Forces in Iraq." The British Embassy has confirmed that Briton Norman Kember and two Canadian nationals -- Harmeet Sooden and Jim Loney are being evaluated by doctors and are currently in the care of consular staff. The three men were taken hostage along with a fourth member of the Christian Peacemaker Teams in late November. The body of Tom Fox, a native of Virginia, was recovered earlier this month in Baghdad.

### Alisha Mathis/bak


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: christian; christianpeacemaker; cpt; hostages; iraq; tomfox
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To: prisoner6

An email friend sent me this:

It ended up being the military that got their a**es out of the sling.

Now you have to ask yourself, if they prayed?

Now they have to ask themselves, was this God's answer?


161 posted on 03/23/2006 4:37:24 PM PST by BlessedByLiberty (Respectfully submitted,)
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie
Maybe they just held his hand and softly asked him "Oh, pretty please with sprinkles on it, could you tell us where the hostages are?"

You nailed it!!

162 posted on 03/23/2006 6:06:01 PM PST by Chieftain (Cindy Sheehan is a shameful example of an American mother duped by Kerry's LIES!)
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To: Zechariah_8_13
I find them to be an embarassment to Christians (the real kind).

I find them an embarassment to Americans, too. (the real kind)

163 posted on 03/23/2006 6:10:35 PM PST by Just Lori (To everything, there is a season.........Ecclesiastes, 3:1-8)
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To: acsrp38

"James Stated that "they're totally irresponsible. He should go home and stay there". I disagree. He is criminally irresponsible and endangered lives of soldiers of several nations. He should be prosecuted and jailed."
Posted by charles on March 23, 2006 12:39 PM

Very good link. Thanks!


164 posted on 03/23/2006 6:14:02 PM PST by freema (Proud Marine FRiend, Mom, Aunt, Sister, Friend, Wife, Daughter, Niece)
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To: Zack Nguyen

These folks are masquerading as Christians. This is their pre Katrina NO Show Me What You Got Mardi Gras.


165 posted on 03/23/2006 6:17:58 PM PST by freema (Proud Marine FRiend, Mom, Aunt, Sister, Friend, Wife, Daughter, Niece)
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To: Marius3188

Oddly, this was basically the plot of the new show, "The Unit" last Monday night. Anybody else see it?


166 posted on 03/23/2006 6:20:36 PM PST by Inkie (Attn Dems: Loose Lips Sink Ships -- but hey, I guess that's your goal))
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To: onedoug
Let 'em know how you feel!

peacemakers@cpt.org

167 posted on 03/23/2006 6:32:34 PM PST by Antoninus II
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To: Echo Talon; Chieftain

Very interesting. Ransome given by their organization?
Maybe they paid up after the terrorists offed the first guy and the military story was a cover up story to deter ransomes and to freak out other terrorists to believe we really can get more intel than they think we could. Just a very cyncical thought.

More likely, it was a military operation rescue. either way, these people are complete Moonbats...but not funny ones. they still collaborate and support the enemy and put our military in danger and take our military off their main duty to kill terrorists. They should be prosecuted.


168 posted on 03/23/2006 6:59:46 PM PST by Recovering Ex-hippie (Google would sell out America to the highest bidder!)
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie

I just wish the bad guys were killed instead of freely roaming the streets looking for more hostages.


169 posted on 03/23/2006 7:16:51 PM PST by Echo Talon
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To: acsrp38

Thanks for posting this. It is great to see the Brits just as ticked off as Americans about the ungratefulness of this group of peace activists.


170 posted on 03/23/2006 7:50:55 PM PST by KCRW
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To: Echo Talon

Nope. No indication that it was, though.


171 posted on 03/24/2006 3:13:17 AM PST by GOP_Proud (Jack Bauer wears Dick Cheney jammies.)
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To: RedBloodedAmerican

This is in response to the article, "Norman Kember freed in Iraq," posted on your website.

Norman Kember was not freed. He was RESCUED.

If Mr. Kember had been released by the savage animals who kidnapped him and murdered Tom Fox, then your headline, "Norman Kember freed in Iraq," would be a true statement.

As written, "Norman Kember freed in Iraq," is a false news headline. It's simply not true. It's a lie.

Norman Kember and two others were RESCUED, under force of arms, by United States, British and Iraqi forces, from scum who believe that kidnapping and murdering non-combatants is a perfectly appropriate means to acheive a political goal.

Your opening paragraph clearly demonstrates the willingness to bend and twist facts: "Norman Kember, the British aid worker held hostage in Iraq since November, has said "it's great to be free" after he and two Canadian colleagues were released.

They weren't released. They were RESCUED.

And the next paragraph: Speaking after special forces freed the men, 74-year-old Mr Kember added: "I am looking forward to getting back to the UK."

The Special Forces didn't free the men, they RESCUED the men.

And as a postscript, I hope this is a lesson to the folks from the Christian Peacemaker Teams and other loose nuts, to stay out of war zones unless they want bad things to happen to them. The animals we're fighting are not nice people.


172 posted on 03/24/2006 3:45:05 AM PST by Beckwith (The liberal media has picked sides and they've sided with the Jihadists.)
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To: prisoner6

The negative press release by the rescued prisioners is further evidence that liberals have a mental disorder. They praise their captors (even though their captors turtored and murdered one of their own) and condemn their rescuers! I hope and pray that their organization has to pay the cost of the capture. They should volunteer to pay. I do not like my taxpayer dollars being spent on saving ungrateful fools! I wonder how soon these morons will return to Iraq?


173 posted on 03/24/2006 4:48:27 AM PST by olezip
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To: prisoner6

BTW, CPT added an addendum to their original statement, which omitted any mention of the soldiers, and now express gratitude for the soldiers' risking their lives to save them. This is belated, but it acknowledges that it was the troops who freed them, not the te##orists and at least they said thank you. I think they must have got a storm of criticism like my letter(http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1601642/posts?page=45#45) and I congratulate the pajama media for striking again for truth, justice and the American Way. (fade to picture of Superman in front of the American flag).


174 posted on 03/24/2006 7:13:10 AM PST by JewishRighter
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To: prisoner6

After they were rescued, they turned around and bad-mouthed
the very people that rescued them!


175 posted on 03/24/2006 8:18:18 AM PST by upcountryhorseman (An old fashioned conservative)
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To: prisoner6

Of course this will be in the MSM for a day. It's like the one kid on South Park. You all know Token? I guess a scrap of good news is worth a day of reporting while car bombs and bloodshed rate several days if not a week.


176 posted on 03/24/2006 8:47:34 AM PST by rfreedom4u (Native Texan)
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To: upcountryhorseman

At the risk of being revealed as a "hard ass" --

I'm of the opinion, our Nation, our war against Islamofacists and the safety of coalition forces would have been better served if ALL of the "peace activists" had been killed by their captors..

1. It would have yet again demonstrated the brutality of the bastards we're fighting...

2. It may have discouraged other silly "give peace a chance" a$$holes from going into war zones and getting in the way, demoralizing coalition forces or putting coalition forces at risk by rescue attempts.

3. Bleaching warts, blemishes and insanity out of the human gene pool is always a good thing....

Semper Fi


177 posted on 03/24/2006 3:53:09 PM PST by river rat (You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: prisoner6

There is no missionary work whatsoever done by CPT in Iraq or any other place where they operate. They are in Iraq to observe and record, and they were involved in trying to document human rights abuses at American-run prisons when the hostages were taken.


178 posted on 03/24/2006 5:55:50 PM PST by anglian
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