Posted on 03/10/2006 9:53:57 PM PST by SmithL
Richmond -- When Tom Fox didn't appear this week on a video of Christian activists taken hostage in Iraq, members of his Quaker congregation prepared themselves for the worst while praying for the best.
Word spread through the Hopewell Centre Quaker meeting in Clear Brook on Friday night that Fox's body had been found earlier in the day. But members said they would not let their sadness overshadow the importance of what Fox was trying to accomplish.
"We were very cognizant of the fact that there are a lot of people being killed over in Iraq every day, and not just foreigners, a lot of Iraqis are being killed," said Anne Bacon, clerk of the Quaker meeting. "This tragedy that we are feeling is a part of a much larger tragedy."
Fox, 54, was the only American in a group of four Christian Peacemaker Teams members taken hostage last year by a previously unknown group, the Swords of Righteousness Brigade.
A video showing the other three hostages — James Loney, 41, of Toronto; Harmeet Singh Sooden, 32, a Canadian electrical engineer; and Norman Kember, a 74-year-old retired British professor — was shown Tuesday on Al-Jazeera television.
Those who knew him say Fox had prepared himself for the possibility he would not return from Iraq. He even wrote about it on his Web log when he first arrived in Baghdad in October 2004.
"I am to stand firm against the kidnapper as I am to stand firm against the soldier,"
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Liberals ALWAYS do.
He should be dead.
Apparently he was not as useful to our enemies as Jill Carrol.
She is still "in custody" as I predicted after the first tape wherein she looked as though she was at a walk in the park.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1594253/posts State Dept.: U.S. Hostage Tom Fox Killed
You beat me!
This Leftist ba$tard publicly announced he was my enemy. I am under no obligation to protect him or anyone like him. He was a collaborator.
heh :)
I hate it any time an American loses his life to those terrorist savages.
Don't forego sex or breathing while you're waiting for that to happen.
These people want to see me dead, and would be high-fiving each other over my smoking body.
If there was a way I could selectively choose which American I defend, I'd do it.
The good news is that he was sucessful in his quest to find out who the real bad guys are over in Iraq.
This "christian missionary" is of ZERO loss. He was an anti war whack job who went there to be like a human shield or to commisserate with the scum who killed him. I wonder in his final moments who he thought were greater enemies of the human condition: Britain and the US or the IslamoFascistJihadistScum who killed him.
This story kind of reminds me of Timothy Treadwell who was eaten by a grizzly bear a while back.
Maybe. But I'd bet the thought never crossed his mind. He probably went to his grave blaming the US.
yeah - it sure does
Amen. I wouldn't spend one bullet to rescue these traitors.
Yes! Perfect!
Timothy Treadwell, Tom Fox, and Rachel Corrie, also known as the "Darwin Trio".
I am to stand firm against the kidnapper as I am to stand firm against the soldier,"....Very ideal in an ideal world Tom...Unfortunately you pick Baghdad to "stand firm" without even a pea shooter?...you misguided fool.
go to their website, all hate directed towards america; hates ours troops but doesn't see the evil the dictators commit. I guess he was praying for our troops to rescue him in the end.
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