These people are just too much. If you have not heard by now, 4 people we’re taken hostage in Iraq by the terrorists.
Four Western hostages labeled “spies of the occupation” were shown in a video aired on Tuesday as a spate of abductions took Iraq back to the dire security conditions foreigners faced from hostage-takers last year.
The four aid workers — two Canadians, a Briton and an American — were shown in the tape broadcast by Al Jazeera television three days after they were snatched in west Baghdad.
The grainy video from a previously unknown group calling itself the “Swords of Truth” brigades showed four men sitting cross-legged on the ground. It appeared to carry Sunday’s date stamp and had crossed swords in the top right-hand corner.
The organization accused the men of being “spies working for the occupying forces” under the guise of working for a Christian group. Al Jazeera did not say if the tape included a threat against the men’s lives.
The four men work for Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT), one of the few remaining aid groups operating in Iraq.
Who exactly is the Christian Peacemaker Teams? James Taranto has the info:
Reuters, recall, is the “news” organization that refuses to call 9/11 an act of terrorism because that would be prejudicial to the terrorists’ point of view. But it states flatly that CPT is an “aid group” and its people are “aid workers.”
In fact, CPT’s own Web site makes clear that it is no “aid group” but an anti-American outfit. Here’s how it describes its “violence reduction project” in Iraq:
A Baghdad-based presence since October 2002. Team members accompanied the Iraqi people through the U.S.-led 2003 war and continue during the post-war occupation to expose abusive acts by U.S. Armed Forces and support Iraqis committed to nonviolent resistance.
DiscoverTheNetworks.org has more background. CPT’s homepage carries an announcement explaining that the hostage taking is not the fault of the hostage takers:
We are angry because what has happened to our teammates is the result of the actions of the U.S. and U.K. governments due to the illegal attack on Iraq and the continuing occupation and oppression of its people.
You get that? Blame the terrorists? Hell no! They are just poor misunderstood folks. Sigh.
I guess if they were in Iraq to investigate human rights violations they will now be getting a up close and personal look. These people CHOSE to go into Iraq. Not one dime should be paid by our forces to find and extract them. You reap what you sow and if you back the terrorists then you deal with the hand dealt to you.
I guess the terrorists didn’t get the memo stating CPT was on their side.
Caerdroia believes this whole thing may have been staged:
I could be wrong, but given that the four hostages taken in Iraq were anti-American activists, it is certainly possible that the hostage taking was staged with the cooperation of the hostages, or in that event “hostages”. It will be interesting to see how this plays out.
I could definately believe this. The timing of this, just prior to the elections, the fact these hostages were not blindfolded, even their body language look to me as if they are not worried at all.
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I guess if they were in Iraq to investigate human rights violations they will now be getting a up close and personal look. These people CHOSE to go into Iraq. Not one dime should be paid by our forces to find and extract them. You reap what you sow and if you back the terrorists then you deal with the hand dealt to you.
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i thought of this too…its ridiculous. i say its not our problem.