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Column One: Terrorist theater tricks
Jerusalem Post ^ | 8?28/06 | Caroline Glick
Posted on 08/28/2006 5:44:59 PM PDT by dervish
What are we seeing when we watch events from the Middle East on our television screens? Is it news or is it terrorist theater?
Let us observe two media events which occurred on Sunday in Gaza. Sunday afternoon released hostages and Fox News journalists Steven Centanni and Olaf Wiig spoke before the cameras. The fact of their release and their statements were reported by more than 1,000 news organizations throughout the world.
At the press conference, Centanni and Wiig, who were forced by their Palestinian captors to convert to Islam, praised the Palestinians. Centanni said, "I just hope this never scares a single journalist away from coming to Gaza to cover this story because the Palestinian people are a very beautiful, kind-hearted and caring people that the world need[s] to know more about." Wiig similarly praised the Palestinians.
While their remarks were covered extensively, no one seemed to think that the fact that their first post-release statements were made at a Palestinian Authority sponsored media extravaganza in Gaza was significant. No one noted that the men were flanked by Palestinian "security forces," and stood next to Hamas terrorist leader and Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh.
No mention was made of the fact that the two were initially kidnapped by just such PA "security officials," or that Haniyeh is one of the leaders of one of the most fanatical jihadist organizations in the world, an organization that the majority of the "beautiful, kind-hearted and caring" Palestinians voted into office last January.
That is, no mention was made of the fact that until the two men left Gaza, they remained unfree. No one asked whether they had been given the option of not giving a press conference in Gaza...
(Excerpt) Read more at jpost.com ...
Police say Labor Day gang violence plans diverted
Snip: Fort Worth police have arrested several people they describe as, “hard core gang members”. Authorities believe the gang members were plotting a violent scheme that was set to unfold this upcoming weekend. The plan, according to police, was a retaliation that would set off a violent Labor Day weekend. Police say, it was a plan diverted.
“We pulled into it a total of about 100 officers into this operation including FBI, ICE, DPS,” said Sgt. Bill Beall, Fort Worth Gang Unit.
Agents arrest suspected MS-13 gang member
Snip: Border Patrol agents aided by National Guard members arrested a 22-year-old suspected member of the violent Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, gang on Wednesday as he tried to re-enter the United States, Customs and Border Protection said.
Andres Gonzalo Manzaneres, of El Salvador, was one of nine illegal immigrants spotted by National Guard members monitoring images from surveillance cameras placed near the Los Tomates international bridge in Brownsville. The Guard members alerted Border Patrol agents in the field, who arrested the immigrants.
Agents processing Manzaneres noticed MS-13 style tattoos on his body, and said a fingerprint scan turned up a lengthy criminal history including prior deportation and a conviction for armed robbery in Los Angeles on Aug. 31, 2001.
Raid nets arsenal of guns; gang video
Snip: Saying an increase in violent crime on the West Bank is caused by post-Katrina gangs "fighting over turf," Jefferson Parish Sheriff Harry Lee on Wednesday showed off several high-powered weapons, including a possible grenade launcher, various narcotics and $31,000 in cash that investigators confiscated Monday in a drug raid in Waggaman.
At a news conference, Lee also showed part of an amateur video he said a Marrero gang has been selling on the streets. The video features young men displaying weapons they say will be used in carjackings and murders.
SWAT Team raids gang memeber's home
Snip: In Thursday’s raid a Hispanic gang member was taken into custody. Because of his background, including an arrest for possession of a machine gun, the SWAT team posted guards around the perimeter to make sure they weren’t targets in a retaliatory drive-by shooting.
Snip: ....federal agents busted a man named Maximiliano Castillo-Jimenez. They say the gang member ran an illegal immigrant stash house in Roma. The man is reportedly part of a notorious group of ex-Mexican military commandos. It's very rare a Zeta is arrested.