Stunning how much they look like each other.
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
Stunning how much they look like each other.
What does he do now? Shop Steve around to other terrorists? Give him to Nasrallah?
Thanks for his name..I was looking for it.
Fox is really not saying much about this at all and are trying not to make a big deal out of it. All they said is they are working on getting them released. Honestly I thing they are trying to make light of this on purpose until they get more information on the situation.
I hadn't heard the photographer's name; thanks for putting a face to the name.
"Her partner, Olaf Wiig, is a freelance cameraman, currently working with Fox News."
No, that was Steve Harrigan.
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Prayers for Steve, his family and Olaf.
Fox just removed the FOX NEWS ALERT or any mention about the kidnapping of any Foxnews journalist on their site. Interesting!
Generally the producer IS the on air personality in these situations. i.e. Shephard Smith IS a producer (not saying that it was SHep that was Kidnapped)!!
Thanks. I couldn't remember which one, it was.
Background on Steve Centanni
"Steve Centanni is a national correspondent for FOX News Channel (FNC). He has been with the network since its inception in 1996 and has reported on numerous global news stories and events.
In July 2003, Centanni was the first television network reporter to provide on-site reports from the building where Uday and Qusay Hussein were killed after a gun battle with the 101st Airborne Division. During Operation Iraqi Freedom, Centanni served as an embedded journalist with the Navy SEAL’s and provided numerous first reports for the network, including a report that the U.S. had captured two main offshore oil terminals located 22 miles off Iraq's southern coast, preventing them from being blown up by the Iraqis.
Previously, while covering the War on Terrorism in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Centanni was first to report the fall of the Taliban in their final stronghold of Kandahar. During Operation Enduring Freedom, he reported on U.S. military operations in Afghanistan, the new interim government in Kabul and hostilities between Pakistani and Indian troops along the frontlines in Kashmir. Currently, Centanni is covering the crisis in Iraq and is stationed in Doha, Qatar.
During his tenure at FNC, Centanni has provided extensive coverage of the Pentagon, the U.S. Supreme Court and the Presidential Campaign of Sen. Bob Dole in 1996. He traveled with former President Clinton during his 1996 presidential campaign and his second term in office.
Centanni, a California native, began his broadcast career as an anchor and reporter for radio stations in San Francisco and Oakland, Calif. For eight years he wrote and produced news segments for KRON-TV (formerly an NBC affiliate) in San Francisco. In 1989 he won the Alaska Press Club Award for producing a weekly news magazine show for KTUU-TV (NBC) in Alaska.
Centanni attended the University of Colorado and earned a Bachelor’s degree in broadcasting from San Francisco State University."
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,1182,00.html
Awful. I hope they are released UNHARMED ASAP. I just erased what I thought about these so-called "Palestinians." They are savages. May God protect the innocents from them and all other Muslims out to do harm. There is only one continent that is safe from Islam. Everywhere except for Antarctica, Muslims are waging/planning war. Please God protect these innocents from harm.
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It is Steve Centanni.
my bet is they are communicating with his family before it hits the airways.
May God be with him and his family.
May our country do what needs to be done to these animals.
OMG. Prayers for Steve's safe return!
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