Column One: Terrorist theater tricks

Jerusalem Post ^ | 8?28/06 | Caroline Glick

[SuzyQue]

Interesting. I didn't realize that.

[Gabrial]

Forced to convert to Islam at gunpoint. EOM

[ml/nj]

That is, no mention was made of the fact that until the two men left Gaza, they remained unfree.

It was only when these guys reached the Promised Land, that they knew they were safe. Maybe I would have kissed the "Palis'" a$$e$ too, to get out of there. But if they don't repudiate that cr@p like "Don't get me wrong here. I have the highest respect for Islam," these guys, Centanni especially, are through as far as credibility goes. Why didn't they feel safe under the auspices of the Prime Minister in Gaza? I give Centanni a day or two. After that Fox should fire him and pull every reporter from every region that purports to be controlled by Sharia Law.

ML/NJ

[SuzyQue]

Yeah, I knew that, but I thought their comments about the "very beautiful, kind-hearted and caring people" was very, very odd. If they were still essentially in the custody of the plo thugs then it makes sense.

[dervish]

"After that Fox should fire him and pull every reporter from every region that purports to be controlled by Sharia Law."

Good point. Let them report their own news or give unfettered safe access.

[eclectic]

He should have added "hospitable and tolerant"

[shoptalk]

From National Review Online: "As many of you may have heard, we've dropped Ann Coulter's column from NRO....In the wake of her invade-and-Christianize-them column, Coulter wrote a long, rambling rant of a response to her critics that was barely coherent. She's a smart and funny person, but this was Ann at her worst — emoting rather than thinking, and badly needing editing and some self-censorship, or what is commonly referred to as 'judgment'."

Ann Coulter: "Ozzy Osbourne has his bats, and I have that darn 'convert them to Christianity' quote. Some may not like what I said, but I'm still waiting to hear a better suggestion."

[ml/nj]

Coulter wrote a long, rambling rant of a response to her critics that was barely coherent.

Yeah. That's Ann's stock-in-trade: barely coherent.

Did someone at NRO really write this?

ML?NJ

[Smokin' Joe]

Yeah, I knew that, but I thought their comments about the "very beautiful, kind-hearted and caring people" was very, very odd.

It sounds like a prepared statement, something along the lines of a POW reading "We have received nothing but the best treatment from the North Vietnamese..."--while blinking S-O-S in morse code.

A little too much good to say, and no thinking American is going to believe the statement.

Either that or they have a really bad case of Stockholm Syndrome. No credibility either way.

[w1andsodidwe]

Well, listening to the joy and relief in the voice of the reporter based in Israel when she reported that they had crossed into Israel told me all I needed to know about the situation.

I guess FOX has to be there because all the other new services are, but I believe that everything we get out of there is pretty much propaganda and not news.

[SuzyQue]

No, but we need to give them some time.

I hope and pray that under those circumstances I would openly refuse to convert, but I suspect I might be compelled to say some things I didn't want to say. Their credibility is not harmed in my opinion, unless they continue to say that crap.

[Sabramerican]

Did you see the joy with which the released FOX journalists met their "Palestinian" colleagues?

Can you believe anything out of FOX, or any other outlet in Gaza, if the stage managers of Pallywood work hand in hand even with "Right Wing" FOX?

[Alouette]

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[shoptalk]

Yep.

L’Affaire Coulter
Goodbye to all that.

By Jonah Goldberg, NRO Editor
October 3, 2001

[Cindy]

ON THE NET...

JPOST.com: "COLUMN ONE: TERRORIST THEATER TRICKS" by Caroline Glick (August 28, 2006)

MICHELLE MALKIN.com - blog: "BLUNT TALK FROM BRIT HUME" (August 27, 2006)

HOT AIR.com: "CENTANNI, WILIG FREED (Update: Convesion vedeo added) (Update: A Gilad Shalit connection?) (August 27, 2006)

YouTube.com: "CENTANNI, WILG convert to Islam" -added on YouTube.com on August 27, 2006 by Allahpundit (Note: See HOTAIR.com for details.)

FOX NEWS.com - Gaza City, Gaza Strip: "CAPTORS RELEASE TWO FOX NEWS JOURNALISTS KIDNAPPED IN GAZA AUG. 14" (August 27, 2006)

MICHELLE MALKIN.com - blog: "LET THEM COME HOME" (August 24, 2006)

MyPetJawa.mu.nu: "MORE TIES TO AL QAEDA FOUND IN GAZA KIDNAPPINGS" (August 24, 2006)

FOX NEWS.com  (AP): Washington - "STATE DEPARTMENT REJECTS DEMANDS BY JOURNALISTS' KIDNAPPERS" (August 23, 2006)

"www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1676188/posts?page=1901#1901" (August 23, 2006)

JIHAD WATCH.org (AP): "VIDEO OF KIDNAPPED JOURNALISTS RELEASED" (August 23, 2006)

Google - News Search: "Holy Jihad Brigades"

Google - Search Term: "JIHAD BRIGADES"

MICHELLE MALKIN.com - Weblog: "MISSING FOX NEWS CREW: BLOGBURST" (August 22, 2006)

WTOP.com (AP): Gaza City, Gaza Strip - "WIFE OF KIDNAPPED CAMERAMAN MAKES PLEA" (August 18, 2006)

MICHELLE MALKIN.com - Weblog: "FOX NEWS' STEVE CENTANNI AND CAMERAMAN KIDNAPPED IN GAZA" by Mary Katherine Ham (August 14, 2006)

Google - Search News: "Centanni"

[justiceseeker93]

As usual, an excellent piece of writing by Caroline Glick.

[SunkenCiv]

Usually it doesn't take a kidnapping -- generally speaking the alleged / purported / supposed journalists covering stories in the terrorist-infested Middle East act as if they are converts to Islam and toe the line.

[TASMANIANRED]

Great article.

Little by little the word is getting out.

Muslims lie, it is considered proper to lie to infidels.

[BamaGirl]

"Yeah, I knew that, but I thought their comments about the "very beautiful, kind-hearted and caring people" was very, very odd. If they were still essentially in the custody of the plo thugs then it makes sense.
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OR -- if they were suffering from the Stockholm syndrome.