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Report: French journalist kidnapped in Gaza
Jerusalem Post ^
| 15AUG05
| JPOST.COM STAFF
Posted on 08/15/2005 12:28:05 AM PDT by familyop
A journalist working for the French public television station "France 3" was reportedly kidnapped early Monday morning in the Gaza Strip, just as the IDF was shutting down the Kissufim Crossing.
The man, a sound technician reportedly of Algerian origin, was in the Gaza Strip to cover Israel's withdrawal from the region.
According to eyewitnesses, three masked and armed Palestinians ambushed him outside of his Gaza hotel, and then forced him at gunpoint into a waiting vehicle, Israel Radio reported.
"France 3" had reportedly contacted Palestinian security forces to request that they operate to rescue of the hostage. The television station also appealed to the French government to take action to secure the man's rescue.
TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: french; gaza; israel; journalist; kidnap; philistinians; terror; terrorist
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posted on
08/15/2005 12:28:05 AM PDT
by
familyop
To: SJackson
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posted on
08/15/2005 12:28:28 AM PDT
by
familyop
("Let us try" sounds better, don't you think? "Essayons" is so...Latin.)
To: familyop
Gee, what was that then, about 20 minutes of relative peace after the border was closed? I think it might be a new Palestinian record.
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posted on
08/15/2005 12:34:30 AM PDT
by
Heatseeker
("I sort of like liberals now. They’re kind of cute when they’re shivering and afraid." - Ann Coulter)
To: familyop
...three masked and armed Palestinians ambushed him outside of his Gaza hotel...Pretty gutsy, eh?
Series, friggin cowards.
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posted on
08/15/2005 12:36:16 AM PDT
by
Cobra64
To: familyop
Enemies turning against each other?
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posted on
08/15/2005 12:40:39 AM PDT
by
ChristianDefender
(If you can't fight with M16/M4.. then use prayer, if not just choose whose side are You!)
To: familyop
The French take security pretty seriously in Europe. This kidnapping caused them to raise their Terror Alert level from Hide to Run. the highest levels are Collaborate and then Surrender.
The television station also appealed to the French government to take action to secure the man's rescue.
What a joke. The kidnap victim will be dead of old age due to endless postering and debate within the government ranks.
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posted on
08/15/2005 12:53:38 AM PDT
by
John123
(The Democrats want to choose the Judges. Who died and made them boss?)
To: familyop
I thought the French worked together with the Arabs? Then what's the deal?
To: John123
.What a joke. The kidnap victim will be dead of old age due to endless postering and debate within the government ranks.
Not so, they will pay up. The French have done that before and will do so again.
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posted on
08/15/2005 1:23:53 AM PDT
by
ScaniaBoy
(Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
To: MinorityRepublican
Oh God... here we go. Doesn't this remind you of Florence Aubenas, the Kidnapped French Journalist in Iraq? She worked for the leftist newspaper Liberation (read:my life's mission is to bring down the USA)
Remember her whimpering that desperate appeal for her life in a video? "I am French. I am a journalist with Liberation. Please help me. My health is very bad. I'm very bad psychologically also....."
Or that other frog reporter Christian Chesnot of Radio France who was kidnapped by the Iraqis? He spent his career trashing the US presence and idolizing the Iraqi "resistance" until they grabbed him. In his Intervew upon release, he said: "we couldn't understand why we were taken hostage for so long, because France was against war." You were taken BECAUSE you country is an international wimp, Pierre!
The french should stick to poodle-clipping, cheese-making and adultery- it not safe out there in the world
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posted on
08/15/2005 2:13:57 AM PDT
by
Antioch
(Flannery O'Connor: “evil is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be endured”)
To: familyop
Knock it off already, it's serious, people! The French have reaised their "Terror Alert" from Lavender to Mauve over this one. ; p
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posted on
08/15/2005 2:20:29 AM PDT
by
Caipirabob
(Democrats.. Socialists..Commies..Traitors...Who can tell the difference?)
To: Caipirabob
Knock it off already, it's serious, people! The French have reaised their "Terror Alert" from Lavender to Mauve over this one. ; p I forget, was mauve surrender or run? Lavender is wear your brown pants, right?
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posted on
08/15/2005 2:51:16 AM PDT
by
bad company
(when you hinder the war effort of one side, you help the other.)
To: familyop
I guess the Dhimmis need more beatings until morale improves.
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posted on
08/15/2005 5:27:42 AM PDT
by
Jabba the Nutt
(Jabba the Hutt's bigger, meaner, uglier brother.)
To: dennisw; Cachelot; Yehuda; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; ...
If you'd like to be on or off this middle east/political ping list, please FR mail me.
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posted on
08/15/2005 5:32:43 AM PDT
by
SJackson
(America...thru dissent and protest lost the ability to mobilize a will to win, Col Bui Tin, PAVN)
To: familyop
what possible use is the kidnapping of a sound tech to these palis? what do they hope to accomplish with this kidnapping?
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posted on
08/15/2005 5:56:29 AM PDT
by
bitt
('We will all soon reap what the ignorant are now sowing.' Victor Davis Hanson)
To: bitt
"what possible use is the kidnapping of a sound tech to these palis? what do they hope to accomplish with this kidnapping?"
Probably, just regular training to keep the rust away.
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posted on
08/15/2005 6:48:45 AM PDT
by
GSlob
To: GSlob
hehheh - use it or lose it....
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posted on
08/15/2005 3:14:50 PM PDT
by
bitt
('We will all soon reap what the ignorant are now sowing.' Victor Davis Hanson)
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