Posted on 08/14/2006 10:27:48 AM PDT by slowhand520
GAZA (Reuters) - Palestinian gunmen kidnapped two foreign journalists working for the Fox News television channel in Gaza on Monday, a witness said.
The witness, a Palestinian who worked with the two journalists, said one of them, a producer, was an American, and the other, whose nationality he did not know, was a cameraman.
The Fox News bureau in Jerusalem said it was checking the report.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the abduction.
The witness said two vehicles blocked the journalist's transmission truck in the center of Gaza City and a masked man put a gun to the bodyguard's head, forcing him to the ground.
The kidnappers then sped away with the two journalists.
Similar incidents in the past in Gaza have ended with the release, usually within hours, of kidnapped foreign journalists or aid workers.
Many of the abductions were carried out by Palestinians pressing a grievance against the Palestinian government or its security forces
Who was it???
Breaking? Any confirmation on FOX?
This is how they intimidate journalists and why they all self censor - out of fear...
Here we go again.... this should have been in the cease fire...
If any kidnapping or terror attack is done by Hizbollah or Hamas... full hostilities will resume!
Probably DNC/Moveon operatives in Gaza, tired of the "fair and balanced" coverage not portraying Israel's response as "disproportionate."
Any attack by any islamic fascist anywhere in the world or dyspepsia to anyone while on vacation in Mexico should cancel the ceasefire.
jeez bump
Shep isn't in Gaza.
I've been wondering when something like this would happen to a Fox person. I'm not surprised at all.
Darn......
Come on, now! ;-)
They'll bring him back as soon as he starts flaming........
But generally, cooler (shrewder) heads prevail, because the Islamic Fascist leadership know that the western media (even Fox) are their best allies. If they thought the press was hurting their cause, we'd be seeing exponentially more Daniel Pearl (press kidnapping & beheading) tragedies.
He's already flaming....
Jennifer is usually in Gaza.
Steve Centani has been reporting from there.
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