One of the four hostages taken prisoner with Norman Kember the Christian peace activist has been found dead, the hostage an American peace activist was featured in a film showing Norman Kember and two Canadian hostages.
The previously unknown Swords of Righteousness Brigades claimed responsibility for kidnapping the four workers, who disappeared Nov. 26 and they warned they would kill the hoastages on a a videotape aired by Al-Jazeera on Jan. 28, dated from a week before. A statement reportedly accompanying that tape said the hostages would be killed unless all Iraqi prisoners were released from US and Iraqi prisons.
No News on Kember as yet, but it does not look good.