Execution date devastates family

Execution date devastates family
03 December 2005
The brother-in-law of a New Zealand student
kidnapped in Iraq says he was stunned by an
announcement kidnappers plan to kill him,
unless their demands are met by Thursday.
Arab television station Al-Jazeera reported
kidnappers have threatened to execute Harmeet
Singh Sooden, a Canadian citizen, and three
other peace activists unless all prisoners in
United States and Iraqi detention centres are
released.
"It's a terrible situation, and the demands have
now been made, and while we've been asking
for movement for days, this isn't of course the
direction we wanted it go in," Mark Brewer
told National Radio.
"We are all just stunned and devastated."
The kidnappers gave the two governments
until Thursday December 8 to meet their demands,
according to Al-Jazeera quoting a statement
delivered with a videotape, which was
broadcast by the station.