'No shots fired' in hostage freeing
US and British forces freed three Christian peace activists, British man Norman Kember and two Canadians, without firing a shot this morning, ending a four-month hostage drama in which an American among the group was shot to death and dumped on a Baghdad street earlier this month.
Major General Rick Lynch, the US military spokesman, said the hostages were being held by a âkidnapping cellâ, and the operation to free the captives was based on information from a man who was captured by US forces last night.
