[08.50 GMT] Letter to President Bush from CPTer Maxine Nash (SooToday.com - whose coverage has been excellent. Its 37 articles related to captor Jim Loney, who is from Sault Ste. Marie, are indexed at the bottom of this page); Hope flickers for relatives of hostages in Iraq (Stuff.co.nz); Jordanian embassy employee abducted in Baghdad (Al-Bawaba, Jordan); Iraq: Abducted peace activists appeal Blair to pull out (Sify, India); Abducted German woman drawn to warmth of Iraqi people (Monsters and Critics.com, UK); Fears grow for Briton as US hostage shot dead (Glasgow Daily Record, UK); Video 'shows cold-blooded killing of kidnapped US contractor' (Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom).