The High Price of the Fox Kidnapping Release (Time Magazine)

Time ^ | 8-27-06 | TIM MCGIRK

[over3Owithabrain]

The two journalists, freed early on Sunday, claimed their captors had treated them well but forced them to convert to Islam at gunpoint.

Yeah, other than THAT, they were treated like kings...

[jdm]

Yep, I noticed that too. Other than being forced to commit to Islam at gunpoint, the kidnapping was like a non-stop, 13-day festival with tons of beer, beautiful women and games. /sarcasm

[PajamaTruthMafia]

Current List of Designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations

1. Abu Nidal Organization (ANO)
2. Abu Sayyaf Group
3. Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade
4. Ansar al-Islam
5. Armed Islamic Group (GIA)
6. Asbat al-Ansar
7. Aum Shinrikyo
8. Basque Fatherland and Liberty (ETA)
9. Communist Party of the Philippines/New People's Army (CPP/NPA)
10. Continuity Irish Republican Army
11. Gama’a al-Islamiyya (Islamic Group)

12. HAMAS (Islamic Resistance Movement)

13. Harakat ul-Mujahidin (HUM)
14. Hizballah (Party of God)
15. Islamic Jihad Group
16. Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU)
17. Jaish-e-Mohammed (JEM) (Army of Mohammed)
18. Jemaah Islamiya organization (JI)
19. al-Jihad (Egyptian Islamic Jihad)
20. Kahane Chai (Kach)
21. Kongra-Gel (KGK, formerly Kurdistan Workers' Party, PKK, KADEK)
22. Lashkar-e Tayyiba (LT) (Army of the Righteous)
23. Lashkar i Jhangvi
24. Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)
25. Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG)
26. Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group (GICM)
27. Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK)
28. National Liberation Army (ELN)
29. Palestine Liberation Front (PLF)
30. Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ)
31. Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLF)
32. PFLP-General Command (PFLP-GC)
33. al-Qa’ida
34. Real IRA
35. Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)
36. Revolutionary Nuclei (formerly ELA)
37. Revolutionary Organization 17 November
38. Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party/Front (DHKP/C)
39. Salafist Group for Call and Combat (GSPC)
40. Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso, SL)
41. Tanzim Qa'idat al-Jihad fi Bilad al-Rafidayn (QJBR) (al-
42. Qaida in Iraq) (formerly Jama'at al-Tawhid wa'al-Jihad,
43. JTJ, al-Zarqawi Network)
44. United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC)

I wonder how TIME portrays them?

[KenHorse]

In its broadcasts, Fox News often portayed the Hamas militants as terrorists,

As opposed to TIME and other Lamestream Media sources who portray Hamas as heroes and "freedom fighters"?

[Madame Dufarge]

In its broadcasts, Fox News often portayed the Hamas militants as terrorists.

Good Lord, Time's gone completely through The Looking Glass.

I feel like I'm living in a parallel universe.

[thoughtomator]

Suddenly they are "journalists" again.

[IncPen]

45. TIME
46. CNN
47. ABC
48. CBS
49. NBC
50. LA Times
51. NY Times

[WOSG]

"The kidnappers are more extreme in their approach to Israel (Prime Minister Haniyeh is a moderate within Hamas)"

This is like saying Leonid Brezhnev was a moderate Communist leader of USSR.

[RedRover]

In its broadcasts, Fox News often portrayed the Hamas militants as terrorists, but the kidnapping of the two journalists, sources tell TIME, had nothing to do with Fox's perceived pro-Israel stance...

Whoa, Nelly! What a sentence! Sure, Fox "portrays" a terrorist organization as a terrorist organization. But it's the Leftwing Blogosphere that's been saying the kidnapping was because Fox is "pro-Israel". Many on the Left have justified the kidnapping as revenge against a pro-Bush and pro-Israeli organization. It should be no surprise to anyone that this was just wishful thinking on the part of Fox-bashers and had nothing to do with reality. Fox has never claimed there was a connection.

[alnick]

Dear God, please protect the Isreali soldier and let him be released or rescued, unharmed. In Jesus name I pray, Amen.

[RobinOfKingston]

Current List of Designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations

1. Abu Nidal Organization (ANO)

etc

I don't mean by you, PTM, but listing individual names these murderous thugs call themselves is an exercise in futility. Trample one into the dust, and it just comes back under a different name. The true terrorist designation is simply ISLAM.

Robin

[syriacus]

Amen, alnick.

[Richard Axtell]

Based on the murky and distorted rhetoric recently put forward by the DNC as policy talking points, the Democrat left perceives the "War on Terror" with only Al-Qaida as an enemy, and only those remaining members in Afghanistan and Pakistan. They also think that once Osama Bin Laden and perhaps his closest lieutenants are captured, that everything will be over with, and we can get back to burying out collective heads in the sand. And this they intend on doing by means of diplomatic negotiation, or via law enforcement and not military means. I guess the remainder of the Islamic Extremist organizations listed here are of no consequence, at least until the next attack on the US mainland.

[Democrat for Bush]

52, Reuters
53. BBC
54. Associated Press
55. USA Today
56. Boston Globe
57. Atlanta Constitution

[PajamaTruthMafia]

Bwahahaha...My thoughts exactly!

[wildwood]

i am soooooooooooooooooooooooooo tired of the negative spin the press puts on ANYTHING and everything......

[Wicket]

I am happy to report that a friend who works for the Oregonian told me that they just replaced their unsuccessful head of advertising - presumably because revenues are down.

Gosh, could it be their slanted reporting? Nah -

[Salvation]

gunpoint doesn't seeem like the best treatment to me.

[Dick Vomer]

yeah...they didn't kidnap them because they were with FOX....

nope didn't even enter their minds... what a load of crap. that's why the "brave" journalist" of CNN and the rest are providing propaganda to the Islamic murdering subhuman slime.