Posted on 08/26/2006 4:34:21 PM PDT by freespirited
The kidnappers of the two Fox News journalists abducted in Gaza City on August 14 have promised to release them unharmed, Palestinian Authority officials said on Saturday night.
According to the officials, the PA has managed to establish contact with the kidnappers, who promised to resolve the affair peacefully.
PA Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh said he had personally received assurances from the kidnappers that the two, reporter Steve Centanni, from the US, and cameraman Olaf Wiig, from New Zealand, would be released unharmed and unconditionally.
PA Interior Minister Said Siam, who is in charge of part of the PA security forces, announced that significant progress had been achieved in efforts to secure the release of the men.
"There are encouraging indications that the two will be released soon," he said, refusing to elaborate.
Ghazi Hamad, a spokesman for the Hamas-controlled PA government, also said that he was "very encouraged" that the two would be released soon. "I believe they will be released soon because of a breakthrough in the negotiations with the kidnappers," he said.
A previously unknown group calling itself the Holy Jihad Brigades claimed responsibility last week for the abduction and issued a three-day ultimatum to the US to release all Muslim prisoners held in America.
However, Hamas officials told The Jerusalem Post that the kidnappers belonged to one of the armed wings of PA President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah party.
The deadline set by the kidnappers passed midday Saturday.
Haniyeh was quoted shortly afterward as voicing optimism on the issue. "There is progress regarding the case of the kidnapped journalists," he said. "There are also promises that they won't be harmed."
Soon?
I pray they really do.
Great news! I hope so too!
Oh, let this be so and let it be soon.
Good news...
ping!
After they are released, find the kidnappers and destroy them and their families.
That's great news! The higher-up pali terrorists must have done a little terrorizing themselves, not wanting some lower rungs on the hate ladder to underscore them.
The suicide watch on the left will begin shortly.
Nope. You have to know they're all going to make nice, nice.
I heard from NPR (yes, NPR) that they are going to release them within hours.
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You're braver than I am!
I won't be surprised if this is just a cruel ruse but I am praying that it is true and that these men are soon released in good condition!
and once they are freed and unharmed the MSM can hail the kidnappers as heroes again.
yeah, i don't suppose there is any way the pa could TRACK those guys down from the incoming information from the kidnappers. do you suppose they just im'd the threats? or dropped by the office to leave the tape of the victims?
I truly, truly hope so and that they weren't harmed during their captivity!
Thank you. My math is correct, but I think I have grossly misunderestimated the percentage of radicals.
I'll believe it when I see it.
Call them "fundamentalists", that's what the Muslim terrorists are. "Radicals" paints them as people that are doing something that "Waslam" is against. :)
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