Posted on 11/14/2006 6:13:31 PM PST by RDTF
JERUSALEM – Palestinian terror groups and security organizations in the Gaza Strip received $2 million from a United States source in exchange for the release of Fox News employees Steve Centanni and Olag Wiig, who were kidnapped here last summer, a senior leader of one of the groups suspected of the abductions told WND.
The terror leader, from the Gaza-based Popular Resistance Committees, said his organization's share of the money was used to purchase weapons, which he said would be utilized "to hit the Zionists."
He said he expects the payments for Centanni and Wiig's freedom will encourage Palestinian groups to carry out further kidnappings.
Officials associated with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party and its security organization, the Preventative Security Services, confirmed to WND money was paid for the release of the Fox News reporters.
A senior leader of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terror group, the declared "military wing" of Fatah, said the group received a small percentage of the $2 million, which all parties interviewed said was transferred in cash.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
In that case, pull all the reporters over there and send them back home.
"While I do not support governments paying ransoms I understand why Fox did. If they were in my employ I would have done the same."
Really? The rest of the world is glad you don't employ folks that are sent to these areas. And if you do, you need to wake up and see the big picture.
Amazing.
oh dear.
Thanks for the ping!
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$1 million per reporter, that's reasonable.
Geraldo!
Can we give them Geraldo, too?!
You can always count on the liberal MSM to "negotiate" with our enemies.
All expenses paid conversion to islam.
Have you noticed any other journalists being kidnapped in Gaza lately? No? Oh I guess it didn't cause the avalanche of kidnappings you seem to think it would have.
If you think there is a single private employer out there who wouldn't have done the same you are fooling yourself. Evidently YOU would be the only one.
Two million and a profession of faith to Islam. Such a deal!
You are a fool.
I wonder how many car bombs $2 million can buy
Who paid the money?
Who paid the money?
Winning requires three things:
1) We must have good human intelligence so we know not only who to blame, but know what there ultimate cause is.
2) We must take harsh vengeance on the cause the terrorists are fighting for.
3) We must consistently promote this policy as a warning: harsh vengence to your people and your cause is the direct effect of the terrorism.
Doing anything less is inhumane and immoral.
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