Captors Release Two Fox News Journalists Kidnapped in Gaza Aug. 14

Fox News ^ | August 27, 2006

[SkyPilot]

This is great news.

Anita McNaught, the wife of the camerman Olaf Wiig, put the big SHAME on the Palistinians, and it worked.

Good for her.

Wife of kidnapped Fox journalist appeals for release

She accomplished this in classic negotiation language. She gave the terrorists a crumb or two, and then laid it on thick about how these guys were innocent.

It worked.

_{Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh meets at his office Thursday in Gaza City with Anita McNaught.}

The terrorists tried knew that her campaign would hurt them in the media. She was well spoken, good looking, and would not go away.

[Darkwolf377]

If you convert to Islam and then renounce it you're a dead man. The careers of these two in the Middle East is over, for their own safety.

There's no big deal in assigning them another beat, so that's hardly a traumatic shift for their careers, happens all the time.

[SkyPilot]

Also, the "people" at DU are going to be sad that these FOX journalists didn't have their necks sawed off with a dull knife.

They are such "humanitarians" you know.

[Eagles Talon IV]

"They were forced to convert to Islam..."

This is incorrect. What they were forced to do is SAY the converted to Islam. There is a vast difference.

[Peach]

You're right; I should have said it that way.

[Mark was here]

Why is this "the hard part"? They'll be asked if they converted, and they'll say "You tell me what YOU would have done with a gun to your face. I ain't no Muslim, no matter WHAT I may have said."

Kinda funny in an ironic sense, Islam calls for you to be a liar, so while (if) they were muslim they were just lying to their enemy about being muslim, just as a good muslim should.

Any way I'm glad to read that they are free.

[Recovering Hermit]

I see they had to say a propaganda piece before they were free.

They should do a follow-up piece...something involving a koran and urine.

[JimRed]

Did they convert...or will they denounce their new found cult?

If they denounce their "conversion", any Muslim on earth is encouraged to kill them.

[Pete98]

Heh, the DU thread on this is sickening. Not a word condemning forced conversaion to islam at gunpoint.

Instead: "you gotta love the Media savvy Hezbollah guy who put this together!"

Or, "I am sorta glad they were released and well. Let that be a lesson to you, Fox News. Do not bring your right wing ilk there (or anywhere) or else."

and: "I can't help but smell something fishy as well - Fox-terror all the time. Fox will probably play it for all it's worth."

I wonder if they'd be so smug if it was CNN/ABC/CBS/NBC guys kidnapped? Nah, they'd be marching in the streets then. But let a TV network stray from "all Bush-bashing all the time," and suddenly they become not-real-people to the liberals.

[redgolum]

On Drudge it says they converted to Islam.

[redgolum]

Brit just said it was under gunpoint they had to say they converted to Islam. He said this is the kind of thing we face as a nation and in the world.

As a Christian, I would not. As an American, I might have tried to take one of them with me. Remember, don't go quietly.

[SkyPilot]

I wonder if they'd be so smug if it was CNN/ABC/CBS/NBC guys kidnapped?

Nope.

When the ABC anchor Bob Woodruff and his camerman were injured, there were prayers offered on this board.

Don't expect civil behavior from the Demons on DU.

[SkyPilot]

On Drudge it says they converted to Islam.

Please do not be inaccurate. Not on this board.

From the ABC article:

In a phone call with Fox News, Centanni said that during his capture, he was held at times face down in a dark garage, tied up in painful positions, and that he and Wiig were forced at gunpoint to make statements, including that they had converted to Islam..

There is one hell of a difference between enemy propaganda and the truth. Being mentally tortured and physically abused is a fact for these two men.

Drudge gives a link to the ABC story, but there is no reporting that they converted to Islam; but they were:

were forced at gunpoint to make statements, including that they had converted to Islam.

[jazusamo]

This is wonderful news, thank God Centanni and Wiig are safe.

Thank you for your excellent posts Peach.

[redgolum]

I apologize if I offended you, but was posting what I had read on Drudge. The later link clarified it as you said.

[Peach]

You're more than welcome, jazusamo.

[Eaker]

I might have tried to take one of them with me. Remember, don't go quietly.

"Taking one with me" isn't an option. These terrorists know how to keep and hold prisoners. These cowards have been doing it for thousands of years.

Escape or "taking one" ain't gonna happen. Do you think that one could escape from a team of American soldiers and "take one" with them?

I don't mean to sound rude, but it is like the "from my cold, dead hand" thing. A SWAT team of twenty is going to take you out. It might be from your cold dead hand but unless you have claymores set up they will all go home unscathed.

Brave talk is still just talk.

[Salvation]

BTTT!

[Sprite518]

now that would be priceless..

[philman_36]

"Happy Dance"