Reply #74: He was an easy target

[Marie26]

That's all. The military is protected within the "Green Zone", or they come out in tanks w/guns. Peace activists are out in the population, talking to Iraqis, usually unarmed. If Tom Fox was investigating human rights abuses in Iraq, he was probably talking to different Iraqis, interviewing people, interacting w/the community. Some insurgents heard about the work he was doing & thought he would make an easy target for a kidnapping. And he was, precisely because he wasn't opertating with military protection. That's why, IMO, we see so many peace activists or independent journalists being kidnapped.