Terrorist Kidnappers Threaten To Kill Four Activists

From FoxNews with a hat tip to Right Nation.

BAGHDAD, Iraq — Kidnappers threatened in a new videotape broadcast Saturday to kill four Christian peace activists unless all Iraqi prisoners were released, saying they were giving the U.S. and Iraqi governments a "last chance" to save the hostages.

The tape dated Jan. 21 and broadcast on Al-Jazeera showed the four men — two Canadians, an American and a Briton — standing near a wall, before cutting away to another shot in which they were seated and talking, but their voices were not heard.

The newsreader said the group issued a statement with the tape saying it was the "last chance" for U.S. and Iraqi authorities to "release all Iraqi prisoners in return of freeing the hostages otherwise their fate will be death." No deadline was set.

The previously unknown Swords of Righteousness Brigades has claimed responsibility for the kidnapping.

The Christian Peacemaker Teams believe the United States and Coalition forces are the terrorists in Iraq because they pre-emptively attacked a nation. As the CPT website maintains to this day in a plea to the real terrorists;

We believe there needs to be a force that counters all the resentment, the fear, the intimidation felt by the Iraqi people. We are trying to be that force: to speak for justice, to advocate for the human rights of Iraqis, to look at an Iraqi face and say: my brother, my sister...

(Be careful what sister's face you look at because you could have her killed by doing so.)

Perhaps you are men who only want to raise the issue of illegal detention. We don't know what you may have endured. As you can see by the statements of support from our friends in Iraq and all over the world, we work for those who are oppressed. We also condemn our own governments for their actions in Iraq.

Terrorists do not care about the sanctity of human life. If they did care they would neither have taken part in the regime of Saddam Hussein, (the regime that the CPT wishes was still in power--responsible for the slaughter of over 300,000 domestics and over 1,000,000 people in wars of aggression) nor taken upon themselves the task of killing hundreds of innocents each month in seeking a political advantage. Yet, this is the side the CPT has chosen to stand beside and support.

For future reference, here are a few easy questions that can be posed to yourself if you want to decide who is a terrorist and who is not.

1) Does this person want me, my children, my family, my siblings, my friends and relatives, my neighbors, my co-workers, my banker, my teacher, my grocer and even my milkman to die?
2) Will this person celebrate a disaster (man-made or foul) that kills many innocent people?
3) Does this person celebrate death?

If you can answer yes to the above questions then it is pretty certain you have a real-live terrorist on your hands. A lesson learned too late by the CPT.