Maybe They're Rethinking that Adopt-a-Detainee Program

Looks like some peace activist do-gooders have stumbled upon some bad guys in Iraq with predictable results:

Images of four peace activists taken hostage in Iraq — one of which is an American — was shown on the Arab satellite station Al-Jazeera Tuesday.

A previously unknown group, the Swords of Righteousness Brigade, claimed responsibility for the kidnappings. The group said the four victims were spies working undercover as Christian peace activists, Al-Jazeera said. Station officials said they could not verify any of the information on the tape.

The aid group, Christian Peacemaker Teams, has confirmed that four of its members were taken hostage Saturday. Reports said one was an American, two were Canadian, and one was a Briton. The U.S. embassy in Baghdad had confirmed that an American was missing in Iraq.

The tape showed four men and a British passport belonging to someone named Norman Kember. The British government and the Christian Peacemaker Teams both said Kember was among the four activists taken hostage.

According to a report I heard earlier today, this same peace group had recently been conducting an adopt-a-detainee program in which their members were encouraged to write to government officials on behalf of various terrorists who were locked up in U.S. facilities. Perhaps the terrorists will now create an adopt-a-peace-activist program to lobby their fellow terrorists to set the activists free. After all, it's only fair.