New Video Broadcast Shows Three of the Four Christian Peacemaker Members Abducted In Iraq

British citizen Norman Kember and Canadians James Loney and Harmeet Singh Sooden were shown. U.S. citizen Tom Fox, of Virginia, was not on the tape. According to Al Jazeera, the men asked their governments to work for their release. The hostages were last seen all together in a video released January 28th dated one week earlier. This past weekend, the 100-day anniversary of their abduction was marked with vigils around the world. The Peacemakers’ kidnappers initially threatened to kill them unless all prisoners in US and Iraqi detention centers were released.

* Tim Nafziger, a member of the Christian Peacemaker Teams in Britain.

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AMY GOODMAN: We are now joined here in London by Tim Nafziger, a member of the Christian Peacemaker Teams in Britain. We welcome you to Democracy Now!

TIM NAFZIGER: Thank you.

AMY GOODMAN: This weekend you held a vigil.

TIM NAFZIGER: That's right. About a hundred of us gathered in Trafalgar Square. We had doves there to symbolize our hopes for both peace and for the liberation of our friends, and also for some of the 14,000 detainees in Iraq being held without charge. And it was a meaningful time. We had prayers from Buddhist tradition, Muslim tradition and Christian tradition there.

AMY GOODMAN: You knew Norman Kember?

TIM NAFZIGER: That's right.

AMY GOODMAN: Can you talk about him, what he has done over the years?

TIM NAFZIGER: Sure. Norman has been part of the peace movement here for 50 years. I have only known him for the last two, so I can hardly speak --

AMY GOODMAN: He's what? 74 years old?

TIM NAFZIGER: Yeah. And so, this is part of his lifelong vocation. And his trip to Iraq was part of that, but it was only a small part of what he has done. He's -- one of the organizations -- networks I work with is called Network of Christian Peace Organizations, of which Norman is the treasurer. We just met this Saturday and realized, well, what do we do? Norman has all the accounts. So this is very much -- we need him back here to continue his work with a wide variety of organizations.

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