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To: GrandmaC
Please ad me to the ping list. Thank you

Sure, but there is not much to ping about.

Still praying, though.

661 posted on 08/17/2006 6:29:23 PM PDT by Semper911 ("We can stand here like the French, or we can do something about it." -Marge Simpson)
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To: Semper911
Day 4 (Thursday) Updates from mediabistro.com:

7:23 PM FNCers Kidnapped In Gaza: CPJ Issues New Call For Centanni & Wiig's Release

The Committee to Protect Journalists has issued a new statement about the kidnapping of two FNC employees. "Our concern for the safety and well being of our colleagues grows every day they are missing," CPJ Executive Director Joel Simon says. "We again call on those holding Steve Centanni and Olaf Wiig to free them at once. There can be no justification for the targeting of journalists, who are civilians, and who were in this case simply doing their jobs. Palestinian authorities must do everything in their power to help ensure the rapid release of these two journalists."

The CPJ's sources say the two journalists "were taken in a Mitsubishi Magnum pickup truck..."

7:20 PM FNCers Kidnapped In Gaza: Journo Says Palestinian Authority Has Info About Captors

"Fares Akram, who works in the same building as Mr Wiig, says the Hamas-led Authority has what it calls 'initial information' which could help find the journalists," The NZ Newswire says. "He believes the Palestinian Authority knows the identity of the captors and where they are holding the journalists. But he says the authority will not use force to free the journalists because this may endanger their safety."

Several NZ publications have repeated the claims. "I've seen those reports too but nothing's come through to us that changes the current situation," the country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade spokesman says...

A few tidbits, but still nothing. Today, all day, for some reason I kept wondering if they were hungry.

662 posted on 08/17/2006 6:44:33 PM PDT by Semper911 ("We can stand here like the French, or we can do something about it." -Marge Simpson)
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