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IDF concerned over fate of BBC reporter abducted in Gaza [journalists abetted Centanni’s kidnapping]
THE JERUSALEM POST ^ | 3/15/07 | Yaakov Katz

Posted on 03/14/2007 8:13:03 AM PDT by PajamaTruthMafia

Palestinian Authority security sources told The Jerusalem Post they were looking into reports that the BBC journalist’s kidnappers were aided by local Palestinian reporters.

According to the sources, Palestinian journalists working with the international media in the Gaza Strip were linked to previous abductions of foreign journalists

(Excerpt) Read more at jpost.com ...


TOPICS: Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: israel; paliwood; wot

1 posted on 03/14/2007 8:13:08 AM PDT by PajamaTruthMafia
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To: PajamaTruthMafia

Who would be shocked to learn the media is working with the enemy?


2 posted on 03/14/2007 8:16:08 AM PDT by Bulldawg Fan
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To: PajamaTruthMafia

Why kidnap one of your allies?


3 posted on 03/14/2007 8:17:48 AM PDT by dynachrome ("Where am I? Where am I going? Why am I in a handbasket?")
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To: dynachrome
Why kidnap one of your allies?

I wonder if this will turn out to be one of those "kidnappings" where upon release the former "captive" sings the praises of his "captors" and decries the horrible "suffering" of the Palestinians under the Israeli "occupation".

4 posted on 03/14/2007 8:26:04 AM PDT by rogue yam
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To: rogue yam
I wonder if this will turn out to be one of those "kidnappings" where upon release the former "captive" sings the praises of his "captors" and decries the horrible "suffering" of the Palestinians under the Israeli "occupation".

Or perhaps a way to funnel money to them in the guise of a "ransom".

5 posted on 03/14/2007 8:28:06 AM PDT by Brujo (Quod volunt, credunt.)
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To: Brujo

"funnel money to them"
You are very cynical. Could be.


6 posted on 03/14/2007 8:34:20 AM PDT by dynachrome ("Where am I? Where am I going? Why am I in a handbasket?")
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To: dynachrome
You are very cynical.

Unfortunately, it's not pure cynicism. It's born of experience with similar escapades in the past.

(By "experience", I mean the way some previous "kidnappings" worked out in the press, not that I was personally involved. :-)

7 posted on 03/14/2007 11:40:07 AM PDT by Brujo (Quod volunt, credunt.)
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8 posted on 03/14/2007 12:43:36 PM PDT by SJackson (Muslim women...no lesser role than men in war of liberation...they manufacture men, Hamas Charter)
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9 posted on 03/14/2007 12:44:20 PM PDT by SJackson (Muslim women...no lesser role than men in war of liberation...they manufacture men, Hamas Charter)
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IDF concerned over fate of BBC reporter abducted in Gaza

I can't imagine why - isn't this pretty much a red-on-red incident?

10 posted on 03/14/2007 12:57:34 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows ("By the way... who is Ben Dayho?" --60Gunner)
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