You would think that something like this would be best served under the War On Terror category, right?
BAGHDAD, Iraq – The kidnappers of four Christian peace activists threatened to kill them unless all Iraqi prisoners are released from Iraqi and U.S. prisons, according to a new tape broadcast Saturday.
Al-Jazeera TV aired a tape dated Jan. 21 showing the four workers — two Canadians, an American and a Briton — from the Chicago-based Christian Peacemaker Teams, who disappeared Nov. 26. The previously unknown Swords of Righteous Bridges claimed responsibility for kidnapping them.
The news reader said the group issued a statement with the tape saying it was the "last chance" for U.S. and Iraqi authorities to "release all Iraqi prisoners in return of freeing the hostages, otherwise their fate will be death."
No deadline was set.
Canadian hostages James Loney, 41, and Harmeet Singh Sooden, 32; Tom Fox, 54, of Clear Brook, Va., and Norman Kember, 74, of London, had been warned repeatedly by Iraqi and Western security officials before being abducted that they were taking a grave risk by moving around Baghdad without bodyguards.
However, I do not believe a word of it. It seems a little to suspect, much like Guilian Sgrena’s abduction. These peace workers have been under wraps of the Swords of Righteous Brigade for over two months, and, the way I see it, they and their "captors" realize that no one is paying attention or doing what they tell them.
Want to bet that nothing comes of this? Whatever happened to these French "hostages?" Nothing was ever reported afterwards, either about them being killed or released.
