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In November 2005, James Loney and three other men Canadian Harmeet Singh Sooden, British citizen Norman Kember and American Tom Fox were taken hostage at gunpoint. The men were with Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT), an organization that places teams trained in non-violent intervention into lethal conflict zones. The then unknown Swords of Righteousness Brigade released videos of the men, resulting in what is likely the most publicized kidnapping of the Iraq War. Tom Fox was murdered and dumped on a Baghdad street. The surviving men were held for 118 days before being rescued by Task Force Black, an elite counter-kidnap unit led by the British SAS. Captivity is the story of what Jim described upon his return to Toronto and reunion with his partner Dan Hunt as a terrifying, profound, transformative and excruciatingly boring experience. It presents an affecting portrait of how Jim came to be a pacifist and chronicles his work in Iraq before the kidnapping. It brings the reader immediately into the terror and banality, the frictions, the moral dilemmas of their captivity, their search to find their captors humanity, and the imperative need to conceal Jims sexual identity. It examines the paradoxes we face when our most cherished principles are tested in extraordinary circumstances and explores the universal truths contained in every captivity experience. At its heart, the book is a hope-filled plea for peace, human solidarity and forgiveness.
From James Loney:
Why I Wrote This Book
I often wondered, during those excruciating days of handcuffs and chains, fear and boredom without end, would I ever get to tell anyone about the strange and bizarre things that happened during our captivity? Being transported in the trunk of a car. Sleeping with my left and right hands handcuffed to the person beside me. Explaining to the captors how to use mens gel. Picking open our handcuffs after watching a Hollywood movie.
It is a paradox. I went to Iraq as a pacifi st on a mission of peace and was kidnapped, threatened with death and held hostage with three other men until we were rescued in a military operation. It is an extraordinary privilege to be able to tell the story of this paradox, to explain why I remain committed to the principles of nonviolence despite the fact a member of our group was murdered and our freedom was secured by armed force. The crucible of captivity was a kind of school in which I was able to see the innermost workings of the universe, how we are all connected, how our liberation is inextricably tied together. I want to share this story in the hope of contributing to the emergence of a world without war, the single greatest challenge of the 21st century. Everything depends on this, for without peace nothing else is possible.
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PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF CANADA
Copyright 2011 James Loney
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer, who may quote brief passages in a review. Published in 2011 by Alfred A. Knopf Canada, a division of Random House of Canada Limited. Distributed by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.
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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Loney, James
Captivity : 118 days in Iraq and the struggle for a world without war / James Loney.
eISBN: 978-0-307-39929-8
1. Loney, JamesCaptivity, 20052006. 2. HostagesIraqBiography.
3. Iraq War, 2003 Personal narratives, Canadian. 4. HostagesCanadaBiography.
5. Christian Peace Maker TeamsBiography. 6. PacifistsCanadaBiography.
I. Title.
DS79.76.L65 2011 956.704437092 C2010-904226-3
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For Tom.
For all those who have given their lives for a world without war,
those especially whose names and stories we will never know.
And for my father,
who never got to read these pages.
Sleep Jonah in the belly of a paradox. Now you need have no purpose, nothing to prove, nowhere to go.
You may, as of now, stop talking, stop planning, stop thinking. The God who thinks of you has no need of your thought. The God who loves you has no need of your love. The God who upholds the universe has no need of your strength.
Sleep Jonah, in a motion that is no motion, in a direction that is no direction. Does the unborn child order its mother about, when to sit, when to eat, when to go forth, what words to speak? Be still, then, and know that I am God.
Be still, Jonah, sleep at last. (He sleeps at last.) In the belly of your saviour, in the perilous fathomless sea, where salvation is a miracle and death is most likelysleep
Until then, I bear you through the pathless sea. Another than you plans for you, another than you breathes for you, another than you loves you, another than you sees before and after, yesterday and tomorrow. While you lie there, ignorant of where you come from, where you might be going, indeed, of who you are.
from Whale to Jonah by Daniel Berrigan,
read to Jim by his partner Dan before he went to
bed, every night that Jim was held in captivity
In general, the terms listed below reflect the authors hearing and understanding of the Arabic used by his captors. This glossary is not correct in every instance, in terms of meaning or transliteration, and should only be used for the purpose of reading this book.
abiya ankle-length black coat worn by women
abu father
afwen youre welcome
akeel food
aku akhbar any news?
alakum salam the response to salam alakum, and peace to you
ali baba thief
Allah God
Allah ackbar God is great
Amriki American
ani I
Arabi Arabic
asbooah week
bacher tomorrow
beit house
Britannia Great Britain
cahraba electricity
Canadi Canada
chai tea
chees plastic bag
clatha three
dishdashda one-piece, loose-fitting tunic worn by Arab men
duwa medicine
el messiahiyea Christianity
el yom today
faloos money
firar escape
Franci French
frook hind rub together
Furat Euphrates River
haji term of respect for someone who has completed the pilgrimage to Mecca
halal religiously pure to eat
hamam bathroom
hum daAllah praise be to God
haram something forbidden, taboo, a moral offence
hazeen sad
hazeem escape
helcoom a type of candy
Hind India
hooriya freedom
hubis bread, money
humburger hamburger
ianni means, also a common conversational filler, as in English like, so, well
imshee walk, hurry up
inshallah God willing
Islami Muslim
isma listen
Issau Jesus
jaysh soldier
jaysoos informant, collaborator
Jenna heaven
Jehennem hell
kabir big, old
kadim old
kaffir unbeliever
killam talk
killeator hat
kineesa church
kool yom every day
la no
leaish why
majnoon crazy
makhtoof kidnapped
mazboot truly
mbhara yesterday
melabas clothes
Messiahiy Christian
mezjoon prisoner
minundra ani gulak likely maadree ani gulak, which means I dont know, I will tell you later
mooreed sick
mooseh-dis gun
mooshkilla problem, nuisance
mot dead
mozane no good
mujahedeen holy warrior of God
mumkin could I please?
my water
najis spy, piece of soiled toilet paper
nam sleep
naam yes
noos half
noos-noos so-so
numibasra a sour fruit used for making tea, flavouring food
Nuzlander New Zealander
ogod sit down
Ordoon Jordan
petrol kerosene
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