Fox, Tom (1951-2006)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2006 Mar 20 p. 1, 7

Birth date: 1951

text of obituary:

American CPTer killed in Iraq

By Robert Rhodes

Mennonite Weekly Review

U.D. forces in Iraq have recovered the body of kidnapped Christian Peacemaker Teams activist Tom Fox, CPT confirmed on March 10.

Fox, 54, a Quaker from Clearbrook, Va., was found with his hands bound and with gunshot wounds to the head and chest the evening of March 9, according to the Associated Press.

Iraqi police, who discovered the body in a garbage dump in the al-Mansur district of Baghdad, said Fox's remains also showed signes of having been beaten before he was killed, the BBC reported.

His body clothed in a gray track suit, also had cuts and bruises and was found along a main road near a train station wrapped in a blanket inside a plastic bag, according to CNN and Aljazeera. When police saw the body was that of a Westerner, U.S. military authorities were called to the scene, reports said.

"In grief we tremble before God who wraps us with compassion," a statement from CPT said. "The death of our beloved colleague and friend pierces us with pain."

Fox was kidnapped in Baghdad Nov. 26 along with fellow SPTers Norman Kember, 74, a Briton and Canadians James Loney, 41, and Harmeet Singh Sooden, 32.