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Three Peace Activists Released!

Free the Captives reports:
Multiple reports today detail the rescue of James Loney, Harmeet Sooden, and Norman Kember. Here is one detailed article, more details will be posted as they become available. Thank God they're safe! We're relieved by reports that no shots were fired.

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Christine Bakke said…
Wow, that is amazing fantastic news. I'm so sorry it came too late for Tom Fox...but let's celebrate the three that were released....
3:25 PM
john said…
I posted another piece about Giving Thanks, and the confusion unleashed when the military intervention was not mentioned in the satement by CPT. We got hundreds of flame messages on Tom's memorial page about it.
9:34 AM
Peterson Toscano said…
fraser toronto posted this in comments elsewhere on this blog and I thought I would respost them here in a more current post:

"Hey Peterson, and interested others!
I'm not sure if you've picked up on this yet, since I haven't seen it in any of the American news sites I've been to, but when CPT former-hostage James Loney arrived home in Toronto yesterday, in his official statement to the press he outed himself by making reference to his intent to get reacquainted with his partner, Dan Hunt, who is shown in the photo with him that was on the front page of the Toronto Star newspaper today.
(They couldn't acknowledge Dan as his partner until James got home safely, afraid of what the Iraqis would do to James if they found out.) "
9:20 PM
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