Posted on 08/17/2005 7:49:57 PM PDT by F14 Pilot
Reporters Without Borders today condemned the kidnapping of France 3 TV crew soundman Mohamed Ouathi by three gunmen yesterday in Gaza and urged the Palestinian authorities to do everything possible to ensure that he is quickly released.
"We call for Mohamed Ouathi's immediate and unconditional release and we ask the Palestinian authorities to react quickly so that he is freed as soon as possible," the organisation said. "The fact that his abductors did not have their faces covered shows that a degree of impunity and laxity prevails in Gaza."
Ouathi and the three other members of the French TV station's crew - Gwenaëlle Lenoir, Michel Anglade and Franck Pairaud - were returning to their hotel when they were intercepted by the three gunmen. The other crew members were able to escape but Ouathi was taken off at gunpoint.
In a statement carried by Agence France-Presse (AFP), the TV station condemned his abduction as a "violation of press freedom" and called for his "immediate release." It said it had alerted the French and Palestinian authorities and it called on the latter to do everything necessary to protect its crews working in the Gaza Strip.
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Any report of white flags on the scene?
The "New Gaza" is going to provide months of entertainment.
Sort of like watching monkeys in a zoo cage slinging their feces everywhere.
Want to know who the father in the background is? He's one of these kids. Life, 1970
So?
The French are just total failures, when they try to befriend anyone they just get the wupass put on them
even the Nazis hated their little Vichy puppets. I think
their muslim underclass/not so minor minority are going to kick their butts.
I'll bet the abductors are petrified with fear. They should be returning the 3 momentarily with their sincerest apologies.
They will get France as a nation, or TV3 to pay a few b/million francs under the table to the pali-terrorists, then the symp. will be released unharmed...
. Maybe this one has learned his lesson and won't try to go charging through an Israeli checkpoint after being released.
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