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Toronto Star
December 7, 2016
The news then was joyous as Jim Loney and Harmeet Singh Sooden were reunited with their families after nearly four months of captivity in Iraq. Loney remembers waking early the first morning back in the Toronto home that he shared with his partner. It was still dark. He woke without chains: “Let's get onÃâà...
Toronto Star
December 6, 2016
That's how Canadians Harmeet Singh Sooden and James Loney would end their 118 days of captivity in Iraq a decade ago. A lonely stretch of road in Somalia brings deliverance. That was how freelance journalist Amanda Lindhout stumbled to freedom. Almost all Canadian hostages are eventually freed,Ãâà...
Toronto Star
December 2, 2016
Jim Loney and Harmeet Singh Sooden, members of the Christian Peacemaker Teams, did generate sympathy when they were held for 118 days in Iraq, but once released, the attacks began. Why were they in Iraq? Why were taxpayers' dollars wasted on securing their release when they willingly wanderedÃâà...
Toronto Star
December 1, 2016
There were also photos of fellow Canadian Harmeet Singh Sooden, Briton Norman Kember and American Tom Fox, a web of string connecting their images to Post-it notes and maps. Loney, Sooden and Kemper were members of the Christian Peacemaker Teams, who had travelled to Iraq to documentÃâà...
Stuff.co.nz
March 1, 2015
A New Zealander who was held as a hostage for four months in Baghdad is to return to Iraq to help with refugee care. Harmeet Singh Sooden and three others with Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) were kidnapped in 2005 and held for four months. One of them was executed by their captors, al Qaeda inÃâà...
National Catholic Reporter (blog)
November 6, 2012
Seven years ago, Loney and three other peace activists -- fellow Canadian Harmeet Singh Sooden, British citizen Norman Kember and American Tom Fox -- were kidnapped at gunpoint on a side street in Baghdad. They were blindfolded, bound and taken to a house where they were held for almost fourÃâà...
BBC News
April 2, 2006
Harmeet Singh Sooden said he had no evidence but "instinct" told him money had been exchanged for his release and that of his two fellow hostages. Mr Sooden, 33, a Canadian who lives in New Zealand, was freed last week after being held by militants in Baghdad. New Zealand Prime Minister HelenÃâà...
CNN
March 12, 2006
A group calling itself the Swords of Righteousness Brigade kidnapped Fox on November 26 along with three other members of Christian Peacemaker Teams: Briton Norman Kember, and Canadians James Loney and Harmeet Singh Sooden. During a news conference, the Rev. Carol Rose, a ChristianÃâà...
