religion birth_place |name image_size nationality husband birth_date residence article_title
roman catholic calgary , alberta james loney 150px canadian dan hunt 1964 toronto james loney -lrb- peace activist -rrb-

james loney -lrb- peace activist -rrb-

james loney -lrb- born 1964 -rrb- is a canadian peace activist who has worked for several years with christian peacemaker teams in iraq and palestine .
on november 26 , 2005 , he was kidnapped in baghdad along with three others : harmeet singh sooden -lrb- canadian -rrb- and norman kember -lrb- british -rrb- , both members of the delegation he was leading ; and tom fox -lrb- american -rrb- , a full-time member of cpt who had been working in iraq since september 2004 .
the widely publicized hostage crisis -lrb- see 2005-2006 christian peacemaker hostage crisis -rrb- ended on march 23 , 2006 when loney , kember and sooden were freed in a clandestine military operation led by british special forces .
tom fox was killed on march 9 , two weeks before the release of the other hostages .
while loney was held as a hostage , his family and partner dan hunt withheld the fact of his homosexuality out of fear for his safety .
the media was aware of this fact but cooperated in keeping it secret .
he made a brief media appearance on march 30 : `` i 'll take things slowly until i can get through a day without shaking legs and a pounding heart , '' he said .
