Christian peace group calls for end to Iraq occupation

While the Christian Peacemakers Teams expressed joy at their colleagues’ sudden rescue from captivity in Iraq today, the peace activists took the opportunity to also call for an end to the US-led occupation of Iraq.

The Iraqi Interior Ministry said the captives were rescued in a joint US-British operation in a rural area north-west of Baghdad. British officials confirmed that Canadians James Loney, 41 of Toronto, and Harmeet Singh Sooden, 32, formerly of Montreal, and Briton Norman Kember, 74, of London, had been freed. The body of their American colleague, Tom Fox, of Clearbrook, Virginia, was found on March 9.