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| Ex-Iraq hostages forgive captors | Ex-Iraq hostages forgive captors |
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| Three peace campaigners who were taken hostage say they "unconditionally" forgive their Iraqi captors. | Three peace campaigners who were taken hostage say they "unconditionally" forgive their Iraqi captors. |
| Briton Norman Kember and Canadians James Loney and Harmeet Singh Sooden said they opposed the death penalty for the hostage-takers. | Briton Norman Kember and Canadians James Loney and Harmeet Singh Sooden said they opposed the death penalty for the hostage-takers. |
| The three added they had yet to decide whether to give evidence at the men's trial, which is set for next year. | |
| Christian peace activist Mr Kember was seized in Baghdad in November 2005 with three other men and held for 117 days. | |
| Peace group | |
| In a joint statement at a press conference at St Ethelburga's Centre for Reconciliation in London they said they wanted "all possible leniency" for the accused men. | |
| Police have approached the three men about appearing at the trial, which will take place at Iraq's Central Criminal Court. | |
| The men said: "We unconditionally forgive our captors for abducting and holding us. We have no desire to punish them. Punishment can never restore what was taken from us." | |
| Mr Kember, 74, from Pinner, north-west London, was in Iraq as part of Canadian-based international peace group Christian Peacemaker Teams. | |
| A fourth captive, American Tom Fox, was found shot dead in Baghdad in March. |