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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: Echo Talon

They were rescued...not "freed".


21 posted on 03/23/2006 3:47:30 AM PST by GOP_Proud (Jack Bauer wears Dick Cheney jammies.)
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To: Echo Talon

What part of planned "military operation" would include the paying of a ransom?


22 posted on 03/23/2006 3:47:58 AM PST by Dog (We have had a date with destiny and Iran for 27 years---appealof2)
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To: Dog; GOP_Proud

where the bad guys arrested or killed?


23 posted on 03/23/2006 3:50:27 AM PST by Echo Talon
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To: Dallas59
Even after they shut one of them up

I'm sorry but I can't let this one slide.....a man was murdered in the most heinous way and you make a joke of him.

24 posted on 03/23/2006 3:50:32 AM PST by Dog (We have had a date with destiny and Iran for 27 years---appealof2)
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To: Echo Talon
Who knows its just breaking...

And does that really matter anyway?

25 posted on 03/23/2006 3:51:15 AM PST by Dog (We have had a date with destiny and Iran for 27 years---appealof2)
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To: Dog

what do you mean what does it matter? it matters a lot! kidnappers aren't a good thing to let roam the country.


26 posted on 03/23/2006 3:53:45 AM PST by Echo Talon
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To: Echo Talon
HUH?

I think if US and BRITISH troops stormed in a RESCUED 3 hostages YOU CAN ASSUME the bad guys are DEAD or in custody.

Another thing....you do know who they are referring to when they say..."multinational forces?"....they are speaking of DELTA FORCE and the SAS....those boys play for keeps.

27 posted on 03/23/2006 3:58:05 AM PST by Dog (We have had a date with destiny and Iran for 27 years---appealof2)
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To: FreedomPoster
WOWsers...that IS unusual for that rag.

prisoner6

28 posted on 03/23/2006 3:58:39 AM PST by prisoner6 (Right Wing Nuts hold the country together as the loose screws of the left fall out)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

The lefties are just in denial. The cognitive discord between what they believe about Iraq and 'insurgents' and the reality they experienced will probably just drive them deeper into the pretzel logic that drives the Left: The worse our enemies behave, the more they blame the United States for making them do it!


29 posted on 03/23/2006 3:58:48 AM PST by ARepublicanForAllReasons (A "democratic socialist" is just a communist who happens to be outgunned!)
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To: Dog

we will see how it shakes out, hopefully they got the bad guys.


30 posted on 03/23/2006 4:01:19 AM PST by Echo Talon
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To: FreedomPoster
Just noriced GMA also said "rescued" instead of "freed."

Oops...sorry about that...they headlined with rescued, teased with freed and used freed in the story.

prisoner6

31 posted on 03/23/2006 4:01:32 AM PST by prisoner6 (Right Wing Nuts hold the country together as the loose screws of the left fall out)
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To: prisoner6

What are the Vegas odds makers saying of the chances any of these numbnuts idiots will have the common sense to return home permanently?

I'd bet they will get back into the fray; maybe after a little R&R. They and their bullshit organization should be billed for every penny spent in finding and rescuing them.

If one American GI was injured or killed in the effort, everybody in sight should be prosecuted, and then sued out of business. Well, it is a good thought, but not possible in this PC world we live in.


32 posted on 03/23/2006 4:02:56 AM PST by thelastvirgil (Incumbent politicians: PUBLIC ENEMY NUMBER ONE.)
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To: thelastvirgil
So far details seem to be sketchy about hte actual operation. One version claims the trio was just sitting around...no guards...and the joint rescue team "stumbled" on them. It'll probably take a couple of days before we get the total story.

prisoner6

33 posted on 03/23/2006 4:06:42 AM PST by prisoner6 (Right Wing Nuts hold the country together as the loose screws of the left fall out)
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To: kanawa; GMMAC; Pikamax; Former Proud Canadian; Great Dane; Alberta's Child; headsonpikes; Ryle; ...
Thanks for the ping Kanawa!

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34 posted on 03/23/2006 4:12:09 AM PST by fanfan ( "We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality" - Ayn Rand)
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To: prisoner6

I will be curious to hear whether the "prisoners" fought against being rescued or went happily.


35 posted on 03/23/2006 4:28:41 AM PST by daybreakcoming (If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. A. Lincoln)
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To: prisoner6
Re: a planned operation mounted by the Multinational Forces in Iraq.

I like the sound of this . . this sounds like LIBERATION!

36 posted on 03/23/2006 4:31:31 AM PST by ChadGore (VISUALIZE 62,041,268 Bush fans. We Vote.)
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To: daybreakcoming

And since CPT was against military intervention to save them, if they'd like to go back?


37 posted on 03/23/2006 4:32:05 AM PST by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: ChadGore
The take from The Daily Telegraph: Norman Kember freed in Iraq
38 posted on 03/23/2006 4:33:23 AM PST by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: prisoner6

FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDOM!


39 posted on 03/23/2006 4:35:05 AM PST by ChadGore (VISUALIZE 62,041,268 Bush fans. We Vote.)
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To: prisoner6

the abc morning news reported that they were 'rescued.'

It raised my eyebrow, but only one, when they had to report the involvement of American and Iraqi forces in the 'release.'

Probably the captors ran like hell when they learned the boot was coming down.


40 posted on 03/23/2006 4:46:19 AM PST by bill1952 ("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
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