TagsTagsJames Loney, one of the Christian Peacemaker Teams ex-hostages, has a piece of empty-headed pacifism about his kidnapping in the Toronto Star that has to be read to be believed. He describes his captivity as like being in a “tomb.” And then he describes the cramped US Army personnel carrier that took ...
David Paulin looks at the Jill Carroll hostage story from a different angle—the mainstream media’s collective role in her kidnapping and the murder of her translator, due to the use (and misuse) of freelance reporters: A black eye for the mainstream media’s use of freelancers. Carroll freelanced for The Christian ...
I’m happy to report that Jill Carroll has repudiated the anti-American statements she made in that video released by the Iraqi mujahideen: Jill Carroll’s Statement. During my last night of captivity, my captors forced me to participate in a propaganda video. They told me they [sic] would be released if I ...
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 ...
The Christian Science Monitor is reporting that Jill Carroll was threatened before her release, and that her video interview with the mujahideen in which she made anti-American statements was coerced. BAGHDAD, Iraq - Jill Carroll’s kidnappers reportedly warned her before her release that she might be killed if she cooperated with ...
Howard Kurtz sums up the Questions About Carroll’s Captivity, and even he thinks her statements about how well she was treated are “rather odd.” Carroll is a 28-year-old freelancer who went to Baghdad on her own, became a stringer for the Christian Science Monitor and clearly was bent on understanding Iraqi ...
A video has appeared on the internet, apparently showing ex-hostage Jill Carroll in an interview conducted by her kidnappers before they released her. (Hat tip: jimo.) “Did you think the American army or the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) would save you at any time,” a muffled male voice asked Ms Carroll ...
Here’s a great post with lots of links on the freeing of American journalist Jill Carroll, at The Jawa Report. UPDATE at 3/30/06 8:52:14 am: She says the terrorists treated her well. Her interpreter, murdered during the kidnapping, was not available for comment.
The Iraqi embassy in Canada has released a statement about the useful idiots of Christian Peacemaker Teams: Hostages were ‘dupes,’ Iraq says. (Hat tip: Tim Blair.) TORONTO - Iraq’s embassy to Canada lashed out at the Christian Peacemaker Teams Friday, calling them “phoney pacifists” and “dupes” after the antiwar group responded ...
Here’s a “statement of conviction” at the Christian Peacemaker Teams web site from 1996, when they were aiding the Palestinian terrorist cause by (in their own words) “getting in the way:” CPT in Hebron. (Hat tip: Heather.) We reject the use of force to save our lives should we be caught ...
Christian Peacemaker Teams, Hostage, Anti-war, Moonbats, Hebron
Some of the Christian Peacemaker Teams members freed by coalition forces are refusing to share information with their rescuers. The three peace activists freed by an SAS-led coalition force after being held hostage in Iraq for four months refused to co-operate fully with an intelligence unit sent to debrief them, a ...
US and British forces located and freed the remaining three hostages from Christian Peacemaker Teams. In return, officials of CPT blamed the coalition for the kidnapping: Three Christian Activists Rescued in Iraq. The Christian Peacemaker Teams said the activists went to Iraq “motivated by a passion for justice and peace.” Group ...
An American professor who works in Jenin (aka “the city of the bombers”) and was kidnapped by Palestinian thugs sympathizes with their rage: Palestinians Attack Foreigners After Raid. In Gaza, gunmen went from room to room in hotels, looking for foreigners. By mid-afternoon, they had taken a Swiss Red Cross worker, ...
American “peace activist” Tom Fox was apparently tortured before his death. BAGHDAD, Iraq - An American aid worker taken hostage with three other peace activists was apparently tortured before he was shot in the head and chest and his body dumped near a railroad line in Baghdad, Iraqi police said Saturday. Tom ...
Tom Fox, Radical Islam, Terrorism, Iraq, Hostage, Peace Activist
The American “peace activist” ominously missing from the latest Islamic hostage video has apparently been found murdered: State Dept.: US Hostage Tom Fox Killed. (Hat tip: LSD.) An American who was among four Christian activists kidnapped last year in Iraq has been killed, a State Department spokesman said Friday. The FBI verified ...
Radical Islam, Christian Peacemaker Teams, Hostage, Terrorism