I need time to relect, says freed hostage

Manchester Evening News, UK
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Freed hostage Norman Kember is settling back into life at home with his family today after asking for a period of privacy to reflect on his experience.
The 74-year-old finally returned home yesterday after four months in captivity in Iraq, moving swiftly to defuse a row over whether he had thanked his SAS rescuers by reading aloud a handwritten statement in which he paid tribute to their courage.
But he declined to talk about his experience in captivity.Meanwhile, his church indicated that the UK authorities had promised the Kember family they would not attempt a rescue unless they could be reasonably confident no-one would be killed.
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The Christian peace activist, who spent 119 days in captivity, was freed in a multi-national military operation involving the SAS and other forces on Thursday.He was one of four westerners seized on November 26 while on a visit to support the Canada-based international peace group Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT).American Tom Fox, 54, was found shot dead in Baghdad earlier this month. There were signs he had been beaten before being killed.Two Canadian fellow hostages, James Loney, 41, and Harmeet Singh Sooden, 32, were freed at the same time as Mr Kember.
Mar 26, 2006