{"id":1217,"date":"2005-11-30T21:31:20","date_gmt":"2005-12-01T03:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=1217"},"modified":"2005-11-30T21:32:19","modified_gmt":"2005-12-01T03:32:19","slug":"activists-group-blames-us-britain-for-iraq-kidnappings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=1217","title":{"rendered":"Activists&#8217; Group Blames U.S., Britain for Iraq Kidnappings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/newsitems\/200512\/s1520727.htm\">Idiots<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A peace group has blamed the United States and Britain for the abduction of four of its activists in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>The activists were kidnapped on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Among them is 74-year-old Norman Kember, a retired professor from London.<\/p>\n<p>Christian Peacemaker Teams, which has been working in Iraq since 2002, has released a statement saying it is saddened by a video tape, which aired on Arabic television channel Al Jazeera, showing the four men being held hostage by insurgents.<\/p>\n<p>It says the kidnapping is a direct result of the actions of the US and UK governments due to the illegal attack on Iraq. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Unless the nabbed peaceniks are in the hands of coalition forces, which they&#8217;re not, I&#8217;d say that the U.S. and U.K. are no more to blame &#8212; no, wait, make that far, far less to blame &#8212; than the captured idealistic twits who foolishly, recklessly and quite voluntarily put themselves into danger.  While I wish for the best for these activists, blaming those who will work to save them is pathetic.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, here&#8217;s a crazy notion &#8212; why can&#8217;t we blame the thugs who actually did the kidnapping? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Idiots. A peace group has blamed the United States and Britain for the abduction of four of its activists in Iraq. The activists were kidnapped on Saturday. Among them is 74-year-old Norman Kember, a retired professor from London. Christian Peacemaker Teams, which has been working in Iraq since 2002, has released a statement saying it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middle-east","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}