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Update 16: Details Released on Iraq Hostages' Ordeal
Peggy Gish, a member of the Chicago-based group for which the former hostages worked in Baghdad, said the men were bound and their captors left the building "right before the intervention."
http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/ap/2006/03/24/ap2620252.html
Their statement is far more interesting than any other fact of this story:
http://www.cpt.org/iraq/response/06-23-03statement.htm
"Today, in the face of this joyful news, our faith compels us to love our enemies even when they have committed acts which caused great hardship to our friends and sorrow to their families. In the spirit of the prophetic nonviolence that motivated Jim, Norman, Harmeet and Tom to go to Iraq, we refuse to yield to a spirit of vengeance. We give thanks for the compassionate God who granted our friends courage and who sustained their spirits over the past months. We pray for strength and courage for ourselves so that, together, we can continue the nonviolent struggle for justice and peace.
Throughout these difficult months, we have been heartened by messages of concern for our four colleagues from all over the world. We have been especially moved by the gracious outpouring of support from Muslim brothers and sisters in the Middle East, Europe, and North America. That support continues to come to us day after day. We pray that Christians throughout the world will, in the same spirit, call for justice and for respect for the human rights of the thousands of Iraqis who are being detained illegally by the U.S. and British forces occupying Iraq.
During these past months, we have tasted of the pain that has been the daily bread of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis. Why have our loved ones been taken? Where are they being held? Under what conditions? How are they? Will they be released? When? ..."
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It’s a chilling scenario. A public official takes steps to defend the integrity of elections in his county, and he is promptly identified as a threat who needs to be removed. It would be bad enough if the Sancho affair were limited to Florida, but really it has implications all over the country. The more we find out about the expensive computerized systems being installed in county after county, and state after state, the more it becomes apparent that the processes to inspect and certify them are wholly inadequate and may well be opening the door to election-stealing on a scale this country has never seen before.
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State ordered to produce HAVA plan
HELP AMERICA VOTE ACT - Corruption personified. Florida disenfranchises minority voters throwing the election for the president to Bush and to 'save face' Bush enacts a law that disenfranchises voters at will across the country.
Oil above $64 on renewed supply woes
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Insecurity in Nigeria's oil delta here to stay
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A retroactive gas tax. Now, that is what I call a plan.
UPDATE 1-Venezuela hits BP with $61.4 mln tax demand
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Chavez: No plan to suspend US oil shipments
Good night. Oh, by the way, it is an educated guess most of the CNN staff only flips 'The Republican Party' lever in the voter booth. I think it is part of their contract.
Surpise. Surprise. Suprise.
