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A Hostage Affair in Gaza is Ended by a Three-Part Ransom (Centanni and Wiig's kidnapper identified)
DEBKAfile ^ | 8-27-06

Posted on 08/27/2006 6:45:59 AM PDT by jdm

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the various intelligence agencies operating in Gaza knew who the kidnapper was: the Palestinian warlord Zakaria Dughmush, who had been hired by the same Hamas group which on June 25 kidnapped and - is still holding - the Israeli soldier Gilead Shalit.

Yeah, it's DEBKAfile...

1 posted on 08/27/2006 6:46:01 AM PDT by jdm
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To: jdm
Only Steve and Olaf know if this is the guy:

Zakaria Dughmush

2 posted on 08/27/2006 6:47:48 AM PDT by jdm (I gotta give the Helen Thomas obsession a rest.)
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To: jdm

ISLAM = the official "religion" for scumbags and murderers!


3 posted on 08/27/2006 6:53:14 AM PDT by observer5 (It's not a War on Terror - it's a WAR ON STUPIDITY)
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To: jdm

Don't forget that Islam is a one-way trapdoor. Anyone who leaves Islam is subject to death.


4 posted on 08/27/2006 6:58:15 AM PDT by AZLiberty (Creating the <a href="http://clinton.senate.gov">straddle</a> Google bomb one post at a time.)
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To: jdm
I have often considered what I would do if I were kidnapped and forced to claim conversion to Islam with a knife at my throat.

The correct and courageous path would be to refuse, to invite my killers to accept Christ and to show strength in my final moments.

As much as I would like to think that is what I would do, I am not sure that I would be up to the task. The horror of the moment might be too great. Would I ever actually convert? No way in hell. Would I mouth empty words to avoid the horror and live to see my family? Perhaps, flesh is weak. If they made me do that, I would vow on the spot to make their meeting with Allah my prime directive from that moment onward. A dish served cold, perhaps. I know, not a very Christian thought.

5 posted on 08/27/2006 6:59:47 AM PDT by Sender (“Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today.”)
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To: jdm

It is clear now that this was an entirely staged event by Hamas. Hamas had him kidnapped, so that they could be the ones to 'win' his release, and show the world what great people they are. What a farce. It shows how insane Hamas is.


6 posted on 08/27/2006 6:59:56 AM PDT by ritewingwarrior (Where does free speech end, and sedition begin?)
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To: jdm

The whole area should now be destroyed as punishment and as a deterent. We need to send a strong message to the rest of the world. Hostages will not be tollerated. This is something Reagan should have done to Iran after the hostages were released back then.


7 posted on 08/27/2006 7:00:01 AM PDT by uptoolate (The U.N. will be the tool of the Anti-Christ)
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To: observer5

Didn't they really get released due to the efforts of Jesse "spreadin my seed" Jackson? He had poked his ignorant nose in this affair earlier and it figures that he will get some credit. sarc.


8 posted on 08/27/2006 7:02:10 AM PDT by shankbear
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To: jdm

Every article states Wiig works for FNC. Yet, when his captured ID was shown on TV, it said:"Freelancer". So, while he was working w/Centanni, it may be that he is not directly employed by FNC.

Any journos out there who can explain how this works?


9 posted on 08/27/2006 7:02:45 AM PDT by reformedliberal ("Eliminate the mullahs and Islam shall disappear in fifty years." Ayatollah Khomeini)
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Well, maybe in the 21st century, or this year, anyway...

Semhadana was the first Palestinian terrorist to attack Americans.

10 posted on 08/27/2006 7:02:49 AM PDT by Ready4Freddy (Sophomore dies in kiln explosion? Oh My God! I just talked to her last week...)
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Glad they are safe, but what "story" is there to chase in a terrorist hive?

Why do reporters pretend that there is some new news to report about the Pals?

For 30 years they have been "reporting" the same news, ie, the Pals commit suicide and murder because the evil Jews are oppressing them and they want the Jews pushed out to sea.
11 posted on 08/27/2006 7:03:31 AM PDT by roses of sharon
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To: Sender

Our dear brother Stephen was not able to face death at the hands of the Pharisees. God gives grace in those times to those who love Him. In the flesh, impossible. In the Spirit, possible.


12 posted on 08/27/2006 7:06:24 AM PDT by uptoolate (The U.N. will be the tool of the Anti-Christ)
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I said that in the beginning, the Pals knew where they were, and so did Hamas.

Why do "journalists" continually believe terrorists? And give them the benefit of the doubt?

I see NO SUCH RESPECT FOR OUR OWN COUNTY'S STATEMENTS, and I see no such respect for the US President or its people, by these so-called journalists.
13 posted on 08/27/2006 7:06:55 AM PDT by roses of sharon
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To: uptoolate
Our dear brother Stephen was not able to face death at the hands of the Pharisees.

He did face death, and his last words were proclaiming his faith:

"You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always oppose the Holy Spirit; you are just like your ancestors. Which of the prophets did your ancestors not persecute? They put to death those who foretold the coming of the righteous one, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become. You received the law as transmitted by angels, but you did not observe it."

This doesn't sound like an "I love allah" moment, or anything other than a proclamation of his faith before they stoned him to death.

Can you extrapolate a bit?

14 posted on 08/27/2006 7:41:55 AM PDT by Recovering Hermit (Apparently, most who protest for peace do so at the expense of hygiene.)
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To: jdm

I bow to no religion that threatens me death at gunpoint.

I hope the reporter renounces Islam defialnly. Although he may never be able to cover news in the Mid East again.
Because it is also a death sentence to convert from Islam to another religion.

Another good example of the religion of peace and understanding.


15 posted on 08/27/2006 8:22:17 AM PDT by o_zarkman44 (ELECT SOME WORKERS AND REMOVE THE JERKERS!.)
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defiantly....er


16 posted on 08/27/2006 8:25:01 AM PDT by o_zarkman44 (ELECT SOME WORKERS AND REMOVE THE JERKERS!.)
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To: observer5; SortaBichy
ISLAM =

Insane...
Sanity
Lacking...
Allah
Mohammed

17 posted on 08/27/2006 8:29:41 AM PDT by ErnBatavia (Meep Meep)
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"I hope the reporter renounces islam defiantly"

Doesn't sound like that's the case. The only thing I remembered hearing was about the "stories" the paiis have and should be made known.


18 posted on 08/27/2006 8:31:04 AM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like what you say))
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To: Sender
"The correct and courageous path would be to refuse, to invite my killers to accept Christ and to show strength in my final moments."

I dont' believe that. I’m sure God’s no more fooled by their phony gunpoint “conversion” to Islam than you’d be fooled a supermodel's gunpoint expressions of love for you.

19 posted on 08/27/2006 8:44:51 AM PDT by elfman2 (An army of amateurs doing the media's job.)
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"It shows how insane Hamas is."

No, it shows how insane the WORLD is, cuz they fall for it, time after time.

20 posted on 08/27/2006 8:46:35 AM PDT by jackibutterfly (.)
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