BREAKING - UK/US/Canadian/NZ Iraq Hostage Death Deadline Extended To Sat.

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Report: Iraq Kidnappers Extend Deadline
POSTED: 4:34 pm EST December 7, 2005
UPDATED: 4:34 pm EST December 7, 2005

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Al-Jazeera television said Wednesday that kidnappers who have threatened to kill four Christian peace activists have extended the deadline for the U.S. and Britain to meet their demand to free all Iraqi prisoners.

The original deadline set by the group calling itself the Swords of Righteousness was Thursday. Al-Jazeera said it was extended until Saturday.

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I listened to the CBC news (when? what day is this anyway? :shrug:) and they mentioned a new video where the Canadians were getting candy and the others weren't.

Iraqi Kidnappers Extend Deadline Two Days

Thursday December 8, 2005 12:01 AM

By CHRIS TOMLINSON

Associated Press Writer

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Kidnappers extended a deadline until Saturday in their threat to kill four captive peace activists and posted a video of two of the hostages wearing robes and shackled with chains.

The original deadline set by the group calling itself the Swords of Righteousness was Thursday. The extention was announced in a statement that accompanied Wednesday's video, according to Al-Jazeera and IntelCenter, a government contractor that does support work for the U.S. intelligence community.

Norman Kember, 74, of London, Tom Fox, 54, of Clear Brook, Va., and the Canadians James Loney, 41, and Harmeet Singh Sooden, 32, were taken hostage in Baghdad two weeks ago.

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``I'd like to offer my plea to the people of America, not the government of America, a plea for my release from captivity and also a plea for a release from captivity of all the people of Iraq who are also suffering the same fate,'' Fox said in the transcript, provided by IntelCenter. ``And that is the occupation of the American troops and the British troops which has brought me to this condition and has brought the Iraqi people to the condition they're in.''

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