From the BBC:
An anti-war envoy is continuing to meet Sunni Muslim groups in Iraq in a bid to secure the release of kidnapped Briton Norman Kember and three other men.
Some have already called for their release and Iraq’s largest Sunni party, the Iraqi Islamic party, said it tarnished the image of Islam.
“The kidnapping will have a grave negative effect among those who call for ending occupation,” it added.
Envoy Anas Altikriti was sent to Baghdad by peace and Muslim groups [the Muslim Association of Britain, Stop the War Coalition and CND].
His visit follows the screening of a video showing the peace campaigners in captivity and threats by their captors to kill them if Iraqis were not released from prison by Thursday.
Newspapers, meanwhile, have published appeals from other Islamic groups, pointing out the fact that the four hostages were working for the benefit of the Iraqi people.
Unlike the occupation troops, busy rebuilding the infrastructure of a country ruined by decades of Baathist tyranny, who, of course, are not “working for the benefit of the Iraqi people”.
“The kidnapping will have a grave negative effect among those who call for ending occupation”. The slaughter of thousands of men, women and children being blown up by the jihadists doesn’t bother them, but these kidnappings …hmm, that’s a mistake.
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