Here is a letter from the from the Washington Peace Center asking captors to release the four peace activists who are being held hostage in Iraq. The Peace Center is attempting to get folks to sign on to the letter.
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Dear Friends,
Accompanying this is text of a statement we want to issue at the end of the week in support of the Christian Peacemaker Team captives. We envision accompanying this statement with a press advisory issued both to area and Middle-eastern press outlets.
It is our hope that a great many organizations concerned with the Middle East and especially with the war on Iraq can join us in this statement and that it can lead to a fresh impetus to see these hostages safe home.
Please circulate widely and advise us if your organization wishes to sign the statement.
Deadline for adding your signature is noon Friday.
Thanks for your attention. Don’t keep the peace, spread it!
Paul Magno
Washington Peace Center
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January 6th, 2006
To those who hold the Christian Peacemaker Team Four in Iraq
At the outset of a new year and the hope and promise it offers, we continue to carry in our hearts the four Christian Peacemaker Team members still held in Iraq by the resistance group, Sword of Truth.
Our organization has been a long-standing presence in Washington, the capital of the United States — standing for over 40 years to demand justice and peace from the United States government on behalf of the people of our country and the world. Those in the Christian Peacemaker Teams whom you hold are our brothers in that struggle.
We add our voice to the many you have already heard imploring you to release them and return them safely to their friends and family. Know that when you do, they will continue to serve the cause of peace in Iraq along with others of us by continuing to act against the violence and injustice the U.S. government imposes on you and your people. We will all do so in every way we know how, understanding that the Bush regime wages its vicious war against your country against the wishes of our people and against the laws of nations.
There is much work to be done to demonstrate the crimes of the powers that have invaded Iraq, and to call them to account. That work needs you; it needs us; it needs Tom Fox, Norman Kember, James Loney and Harmeet Singh Sooden.
Act graciously and mercifully so as to give honor to Allah, and to demonstrate the compassion and dignity of your nation’s people. Free these four, so that they can continue to give honor and glory to the Most High through their work for the people of Iraq. Then together, hands across the water, we can work for an Iraq free of foreign masters where all can live in peace and unafraid.
Paul Magno, Washington Peace Center
1426 9th St NW
ph 202-234-2000
fx 202-234-7064
Washington DC 20001
wpc@igc.org
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