CPTnet 25 February 2006

MONTREAL: Canadian Muslims repeat their plea for the release of the CPT
workers in Iraq

Date: 2 February 2006

We, the Canadian Muslims, were relieved to be assured by the release of the
video recording dated January 21, 2006, that the Christian Peacemaker Teams
(CPT) workers in Iraq are alive. We hope to see them free in the near
future.

We repeat our plea to those holding them to release them and would like to
assure the whole world, once again, that they are honourable men who have no
reason to be in Iraq other than to help the Iraqi people.

Norman Kember, Tom Fox, James Loney and Harmeet Singh Sooden worked hard to
expose truth of the war on Iraq and to defend the Iraqi people.

The CPT, an organization of conscience not affiliated with any government,
has put a lot of effort in its effective campaign to expose the situation in
Iraq to the American, British and Canadian public. The workers who are held
now can be, and we believe that they will be - God willing - a very
effective voice in these efforts.

We repeat our plea for their freedom and hope they will be released without
delay.

Jointly released by:

Alternative Perspective Media (APM-RAM), Astrolabe, Association Alhijrah,
Canadian Islamic Congress (CIC), Canadian Muslim Forum (CMF), Centre
Islamique BADR (CIB), Islamic Community Centre (ICC), Mosque Aloumah, Mosque
Montreal (MM), Muslim community of Quebec (MCQ), Présence Musulman (PM)

Media contact: Ehab Lotayef (514) 941-9792