Iraqi Sunnis appeal for hostages' release

Now what will Rummy's Special Operations Unit do to? Because NOONE is going to believe that "insurgents" are behind this now. Ever wonder why CNN NEVER mentions that these peace activists were working for the release of detainees and documenting evidence of human rights abuses...hmmm...

Iraqi Sunnis appeal for hostages' release
Asssociated Press

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"We ask those who have authority and power to do their best to release the four ... people who work in Christian peace organization," cleric Ahmed Hassan Taha told worshippers in Baghdad's Sunni stronghold Azamiyah. "In fact, those activists were the first who condemned the war on Iraq."

Residents gathered outside the mosque held aloft banners demanding the hostages' release.

"The people of Azamiyah will not forget the honest positions of the peacemakers," read one. Another said: "We demand the release of the abducted peacemakers."

A spokesman for the Association of Muslim Scholars, an influential Sunni clerical organization, said he hoped the four were in the hands of insurgents and not a criminal gang. The association is believed to have links to some Sunni-led insurgent groups.

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http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2005-12-09-iraq_x.htm