10 March
2006 Chatmag News.
The body of Tom
Fox, resident of Clearbrook, Virginia, has been found in Iraq. The
FBI verified a body found in Iraq on Friday morning was that of Tom Fox,
spokesman Noel Clay said. Fox's family has been notified, Clay said,
and "our heartfelt condolences go out to them."
"The State Department
continues to call for the unconditional release of all other hostages"
in Iraq, Clay said.
Fox had been in
Iraq with the Christian Peacemaker Teams, an Interdenominational group
who, according to their site:
"...offers an
organized, nonviolent alternative to war and other forms of lethal inter-group
conflict."
From the Christian
Peacemaker Web Site:
"Christian Peacemaker
Teams (CPT) arose from a call in 1984 for Christians to devote the same
discipline and self-sacrifice to nonviolent peacemaking that armies devote
to war. Enlisting the whole church in an organized, nonviolent alternative
to war, today CPT places violence-reduction teams in crisis situations
and militarized areas around the world at the invitation of local peace
and human rights workers. CPT embraces the vision of unarmed intervention
waged by committed peacemakers ready to risk injury and death in bold attempts
to transform lethal conflict through the nonviolent power of God’s truth
and love.
Initiated by Mennonites,
Brethren and Quakers with broad ecumenical participation, CPT’s ministry
of Biblically-based and spiritually-centered peacemaking emphasizes creative
public witness, nonviolent direct action and protection of human rights."
---Chatmag News---
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Note from Peter
J. Carr, Owner of Chatmag.com
As a former resident
of Clearbrook, and neighbor of the Fox's, I extend my sincere condolences
to his family.