Tom Fox (Quaker)
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Thomas William Fox (July 7, 1951 – March 9, 2006) was an American
Life and career
From
Iraq hostage crisis
On November 26, 2005, Fox was taken hostage along with three other members of the CPT team in Iraq. The captors threatened to kill all hostages unless the United States freed all Iraqi prisoners held in the US and Iraq by December 8, 2005. They later extended this deadline to December 10, 2005. On December 10, 2005, Katherine Fox issued a statement saying that she and her father believe the Iraqi people have legitimate concerns about the
On March 7, 2006
On March 23, 2006, the remaining hostages were freed by multinational forces.[7] Muharib Abdul-Latif al-Jubouri (an Al-Qaeda in Iraq leader) is believed to have personally killed Fox.[citation needed] Al-Jubouri was killed in May 2007.[8]
See also
- Harmeet Singh Sooden
- Norman Kember
- James Loney
- List of kidnappings
- List of peace activists
- List of solved missing person cases
- List of unsolved murders
Bibliography
- Florence Fullerton, Tribute to a Peacemaker : Our Friend Tom Fox, followed by Waitinginthelight.blogspot.com Selected Entries From Tom Fox's blog, FWCC – Wider Quaker Fellowship, Philadelphia, 2006, 15 p.
References
- ISBN 978-0-232-52828-2.
- Christian Peacemaker Teams
- ^ 'Deadline passes; no word on hostages', CNN, December 10, 2005
- ^ New hostage tape surfaces, The Globe and Mail, March 7, 2006
- ^ US hostage in Iraq confirmed dead, BBC News, March 11, 2006
- ^ Tom Fox Remembered Around the World as Dedicated Activist Who Devoted His Life to Peace, Democracy Now!, March 13, 2006
- ^ Peace group hostages freed in Iraq, CNN, March 23, 2006
- ^ Murphy, Dan (May 7, 2007). "One of Jill Carroll's captors killed, says US military". The Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved November 1, 2010.
External links
- Tom Fox's blog
- David Cook: The Story Of Tom Fox - And Response, opinion column, The Chattanoogan, 9 Dec 2005
- Christian Peacemaker Teams
- Tom Fox Memorial from Christian Peacemaker Teams
- Free The Captives: Petition for the release of Christian Peacemakers being held in Iraq and memorial page for Tom Fox
- Links to articles about Tom's capture
- Song For Tom Fox by The Tremulance