Peace Creep Claims Rescue Was Staged
Charles Johnson
Sat Apr 1, 2006 at 7:58 am PST • Views: 373
Canadian Harmeet Sooden, one of the Christian Peacemaker Teams ingrates freed by coalition troops, is now claiming that the entire rescue mission was staged to give the “occupation forces” some good PR.
The National Post has a suggestion for the next time the mujahideen kidnap leftist useful idiots like Sooden: Peacemaker rescue should be optional. (Hat tip: Newsbeat1.)
The Christian Peacemaker Teams are up to their usual ungrateful tricks. Not only do some CPT activists still refuse to show any gratitude toward the coalition soldiers and spies who helped rescue three of their members in Iraq last week, one of the hostages — Canadian Harmeet Sooden — is now even insisting the entire rescue mission was “contrived,” presumably to give the coalition a public relations boost amid continued bad news about the insurgency in that country.
Speaking in Auckland, New Zealand, yesterday, Mr. Sooden insisted it was “highly likely, highly probable” that a ransom had been paid for his release and that of two fellow CPT prisoners, Canadian Jim Loney and Briton Norman Kember. Both the Canadian and New Zealand governments seemed genuinely shocked by his contention and emphatically denied his claim. …
Here’s a suggestion: The next time peaceniks are taken hostage in a war zone while attempting to thwart the efforts of Western coalition forces, when those same forces come to save them and before the helicopters lift off to safety with the hostages aboard, the soldiers should ask the former detainees how they feel about being saved. And if there is a moment’s hesitation for philosophic reflection or any hint of ingratitude, the soldiers should be free to return their passengers to the desert with all good wishes for fair treatment by the first jihadis who pass by.
Frank says: