[GPCA Updates] GP RELEASE: Greens mourn Tom Fox

[Jim Stauffer]

GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES
http://www.gp.org

For Immediate Release:
Monday, March 13, 2006

Greens mourn Tom Fox, peaceworker and hostage murdered
in Iraq


WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Green Party members expressed
sorrow and anger over the death of Tom Fox.

Mr. Fox, who was in Iraq working as a member of the
Christian Peacekeeper Teams (CPT)
<http://www.cpt.org>, was also a member of the Green
Party of Virginia.  He was murdered after having been
abducted in Baghdad in November along with three other
CPT members.

"Tom's dedication to nonviolence was absolute," said
Kirit Mookerjee of the Green Party of Virginia.  "His
life is a model for Green Party members and for all
Americans who value peace, justice, and the principles
of nonviolent resolution of conflict.  His death was
senseless, but it also reflects the senselessness of
the war on Iraq, which Tom, like the Green Party,
passionately opposed.  Greens join Langley Hill
Friends Meeting, a peace group in northern Virginia to
which Tom Fox belonged, in their appeal for peace in
Iraq."

Greens expressed their condolences to Tom Fox's family
and friends, and also joined CPT in their plea for the
safe release of Harmeet Sooden, Jim Loney and Norman
Kember, and all other hostages held in Iraq.

The Green Party of the United States has called for
immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq.  Tens
of thousands of Iraqi civilians, over 2,300 U.S.
servicemembers, and 54 foreign hostages have been
killed as a result of the U.S. invasion, and Iraq is
now on the brink of civil war.


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