CBC: Canadian hostages not shown in video

[leftchick]

http://www.mytelus.com/news/article.do?pageID=cbc/world_home&articleID=2114129

(CBC) - The latest video issued by a group holding Christian aid workers in Iraq suggests that the fates of the hostages - two Canadians, an American and a Briton - may be diverging, perhaps because Canada stayed out of the Iraq war.


American Tom Fox, 54, and Briton Norman Kember, 74, are shown in orange jumpsuits with their hands chained and eyes taped over, a scene that has reminded British viewers of pictures of Ken Bigley, a Liverpool engineer who was kidnapped in Iraq last year, before his captors beheaded him.


The Canadian hostages - James Loney, 41, of Toronto and Harmeet Sooden, 32, who has lived in Montreal - are not seen in the video, which was broadcast on the Arabic satellite channel Al-Jazeera.

BBC correspondent Caroline Hawley said it was "pretty disturbing" that only two of the four men, all members of a Christian Peacemaker group, were shown.

"I think the hostage takers are clearly trying to differentiate between them because Canada doesn't have troops here in Iraq and Britain and America do," she said.

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[pocket]

1. Canada isn't occupying their land and slaughtering their children

or maybe it's just a coincidence.

[Darth_Kitten]

2. Neither are any of those hostages...

I'm so sick of the violence. :(

[pocket]

3. no, but they probably get identified with their country of origin

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[Lisa]

4. the Canadian Peacemaker at the vigil I attended last night ...

... says his organization wants everyone being held captive in Iraq freed. Not just the Canadians, but Mr. Fox and Mr. Kember, and all the Iraqis being detained.

[TrogL]

5. This could get very complicated politically

Canada is just going into an election. Harper is on record opposing Canada's non-participation in Iraq. If our hostages are freed, he may attempt to call this "Canada cooperating with terrorists" or some damn thing. Trust me, he'll find a way to twist it all backwards.

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. Ex-US detainee pleads for hostage

A British former prisoner of the US at Guantanamo Bay has called for the release of Briton Norman Kember and three other hostages held in Iraq.

Moazzam Begg told BBC Newsnight that seeing Mr Kember in an orange jumpsuit reminded him and his fellow ex-inmates of their ordeal at the US base in Cuba.
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He said: "When we were first granted release by Allah's mercy we came home to find that there were people who opposed the government in their brutal war waged against Afghanistan and Iraq and stood on the side of justice, and they were not Muslims.

"It is our sincerest belief that Norman Kember, the 74-year-old Briton and those with him are amongst those people, the many people who opposed this war from the beginning and were only in Iraq to promote human rights for the oppressed."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4508640.stm