A belated kinda-sorta thank you has been posted on the CPT website.

Apparently, the CPT has decided they need to recognize the men who rescued their team members after all.

Addenda 23 March 2006, 9 p.m. ET

We have been so overwhelmed and overjoyed to have Jim, Harmeet and Norman freed, that we have not adequately thanked the people involved with freeing them, nor remembered those still in captivity. So we offer these paragraphs as the first of several addenda:

We are grateful to the soldiers who risked their lives to free Jim, Norman and Harmeet. As peacemakers who hold firm to our commitment to nonviolence, we are also deeply grateful that they fired no shots to free our colleagues. We are thankful to all the people who gave of themselves sacrificially to free Jim, Norman, Harmeet and Tom over the last four months, and those supporters who prayed and wept for our brothers in captivity, for their loved ones and for us, their co-workers.

We will continue to lift Jill Carroll up in our prayers for her safe return. In addition, we will continue to advocate for the human rights of Iraqi detainees and assert their right to due process in a just legal system.

h/p Soldiers’ Angels Germany

Better late and a little begrudging than no thanks at all I suppose.

Also at: Leaning Straight Up; Church & State; Violence Worker; Sister Toldjah

Freedom Folks has a post on the celebration the CPT had over the ‘release’ of their comrades. Sigh ….

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