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Fox Journalist Says He's 'Sympathetic' to Captors
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| 8-31-06
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Posted on 08/31/2006 1:42:03 PM PDT by veronica
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To: veronica
"It's really complex,"
It's not complex, THEY ARE TERRORIST AND WILL DO ANYTHING TO GRAB HEADLINES INCLUDING KIDNAP, TORTURE AND MURDER. This damn terrorist sympathizing by the MSM has got to end or they need to be treated like the terrorist.
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posted on
08/31/2006 1:48:49 PM PDT
by
tobyhill
(The War on Terrorism is not for the weak.)
To: paltz
Stockholm Syndrome. said it first. Nope,much,*much* more likely that he's a communist tool.In case you haven't heard,New Zealand went communist about 20 years ago.
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posted on
08/31/2006 1:49:10 PM PDT
by
Gay State Conservative
("An empty limousine pulled up and Hillary Clinton got out")
To: kinoxi
Interesting you mention that, b/c I found jennifer griffin's story about invesigating the whole thing simply facinating. This could be a movie the way she described talking to all the terrorists dons in Gaza.
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posted on
08/31/2006 1:49:23 PM PDT
by
paltz
To: veronica
Wiig's wife said that in her efforts all was done for the release of the two men.
Security experts say to do what you must to survive. And when you later have regrets they tell you not to be so hard on yourself, because you WON survival.
It's so easy to second-guess them when most will never be put in their place.
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posted on
08/31/2006 1:49:29 PM PDT
by
Pan_Yans Wife
("Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny. "--Aeschylus)
To: Spiff
Red-Green alliance always produces the "complex" Yellow.
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posted on
08/31/2006 1:49:30 PM PDT
by
alecqss
To: paltz
It is a little easier to be calm when your captors tell you that you are safe, but your buddy over there is screwed.
To the palis. You will never see one cent from me if I can help it. I have no sympathy for a culture that teaches hate and violence. Or one that spits in the face of those that feed them.
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posted on
08/31/2006 1:49:33 PM PDT
by
MPJackal
("If you are not with us, you are against us.")
To: veronica
Wiig is nuts, and for him to sell Centani down the river every chance he got is shameful. He has to live with himself and know what he is, that's his punishment.
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posted on
08/31/2006 1:49:37 PM PDT
by
hershey
To: veronica
"The terrorists have not met my wife," Wiig said. "She is a force to be reckoned with." Maybe he's on to something here. Combine her with my ex-wife, and other like spirited Western women and I think we have the making of a plan here for total defeat of Radical Islam!
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posted on
08/31/2006 1:49:51 PM PDT
by
avacado
To: MaineVoter2002
Hannity interviewed them yesterday. I couldn't listen to the whole thing so maybe he asked him this but I kept yelling at the radio - Ask them if they're kneeling 3 times a day to Mecca!!
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posted on
08/31/2006 1:50:11 PM PDT
by
DManA
To: tobyhill
What makes all of this worse is there is a chance a ransom was paid
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posted on
08/31/2006 1:50:27 PM PDT
by
RDTF
("We love death. The US loves life. That is the big difference between us two.” Osama Bin laden)
To: veronica
Ah, now I see, kidnap journalists, under threat of death make them convert to Christianity, and then they'll be sympathetic.
/sarcasm
Little Janie wants to thank Jesus at her high school graduation and the aclu and msm sees Christian trying to impose an intolerant theocracy on America. Jihad Ali cuts the head off people because they don't believe what he does, kills women who accidentally show an ankle, and says he will not rest until the whole world bows to islam, and the aclu and msm says that's ok because they don't like American foreign policy. Timothy McVie did not like American Foreign or doemstic policy either.
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posted on
08/31/2006 1:50:45 PM PDT
by
feedback doctor
(HATE - The core value of liberalism)
To: seanrobins
It's time that Fox hire Jimmah Carter for such destinations
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posted on
08/31/2006 1:51:30 PM PDT
by
MaineVoter2002
(http://www.cafenetamerica.com)
To: DManA
I couldn't listen to the whole thing I wish Alan Keyes had a national radio show
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posted on
08/31/2006 1:52:54 PM PDT
by
MaineVoter2002
(http://www.cafenetamerica.com)
To: OldFriend
I wouldn't pay five cents to read the story. And their endless round of appearances is more than exploitative.
I agree.
He was spouting this garbage on Good Morning America though.The obvious target audience for pro-muslim propaganda stories.
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posted on
08/31/2006 1:53:25 PM PDT
by
kinoxi
To: veronica
On the day of Centanni's and Wiig's release, their captors delivered a video showing the two men in Arab robes reading from the Koran to indicate their conversion to Islam.
Centanni has said their conversion was forced at gunpoint.
Apparently, even though there isn't a gun anymore, Wiig is still under that "islamic" influence. Why else would one defend the actions of their "captors"?
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posted on
08/31/2006 1:54:13 PM PDT
by
Lucky9teen
( If you can't, you must. If you must, you can.)
To: veronica
Olaf Wiig is probably >thisclose< to converting to Islam anyway. Without any any firm convictions of his own, having abandoned whatever religion he may have been introduced to early in life, he has been ripe for the picking by whatever cult got to him first.
It just happened to be some militant Islamic jihadists. If offered the opportunity, the conversion could just have well been to Druidism, or Wicca, or animism.
Sometimes secular humanism just is not enough to satisfy the spiritual hunger of the masses.
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posted on
08/31/2006 1:54:47 PM PDT
by
alloysteel
(When in doubt, forge ahead anyway. To outsiders, it looks the same as boldness. Or plain crazy.)
To: veronica
1. They don't want to sour the grapes for other journalists.
2. The self proclaimed intellectual feels compelled to make such statements, regardless of how absurd they are.
I doubt it is an unconscious Stockholm Syndrome, rather a deliberate statement they know will also be received by those living in this region. But I'm not them, I can't read their mind, and I don't even work in journalism. So this is purely the opinion of a layperson.
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posted on
08/31/2006 1:54:48 PM PDT
by
Red6
To: RDTF
I have no doubt a ransom was paid and probably by FOX. I have been noticing a change in FOX news and it seems to be leaning a bit too much to the left of "fair and balanced" for my taste.
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posted on
08/31/2006 1:54:58 PM PDT
by
tobyhill
(The War on Terrorism is not for the weak.)
To: veronica
The only thing missing in this entire episode is the US government and it's reaction to this outrage.
I know they refused to "negotiate" with the kidnappers, but couldn't they at least have said a few words afterwards condemning this farce? It's hard to believe they were completely missing in this saga and the FOX news staff and Mrs. Wiig pulled the whole thing off themselves.
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posted on
08/31/2006 1:55:32 PM PDT
by
Gritty
(My question for you (President Bush) is: “Do you not want to join us (the Ummah)? -Ahmadinejad)
To: Spiff
"The group was willing to cut your head off to achieve their goals. And you suddenly think that the issue is "complex"?!!! We are either witnessing Stockholm syndrome or Stupidity. One of the two."The terrorists have not met my wife," Wiig said. "She is a force to be reckoned with."
Unlike you, Mr Wiig.
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