Jazeera TV shows video of Western hostages in Iraq

DUBAI, Mar 7 (Reuters) Al Jazeera television aired today a video showing three of four Christian peace activists held hostage in Iraq and said the men had called on Gulf Arab leaders and their own governments to help free them.

The video bore a February 28 date stamp and showed the three men sitting in a room. They appeared in good health and were speaking to the camera, but their voices could not be heard.

A group calling itself the Swords of Truth kidnapped the men-- two Canadians, one Briton and one American -- in November. In January, the group said US-led forces had one last chance to free Iraqi prisoners or they would kill the men.

Briton Norman Kember, American Tom Fox and Canadians James Loney and Harmeet Sooden were kidnapped in Baghdad, where they were working with a Christian peace organisation, by the previously unknown group.

It was not immediately clear which hostages were shown.

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