Posted on 08/14/2006 10:27:48 AM PDT by slowhand520
GAZA (Reuters) - Palestinian gunmen kidnapped two foreign journalists working for the Fox News television channel in Gaza on Monday, a witness said.
The witness, a Palestinian who worked with the two journalists, said one of them, a producer, was an American, and the other, whose nationality he did not know, was a cameraman.
The Fox News bureau in Jerusalem said it was checking the report.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the abduction.
The witness said two vehicles blocked the journalist's transmission truck in the center of Gaza City and a masked man put a gun to the bodyguard's head, forcing him to the ground.
The kidnappers then sped away with the two journalists.
Similar incidents in the past in Gaza have ended with the release, usually within hours, of kidnapped foreign journalists or aid workers.
Many of the abductions were carried out by Palestinians pressing a grievance against the Palestinian government or its security forces
they probably fear putting his life at risk (further) by broadcasting it.
I thought it odd that Steve Harrigan, of all people, was not one of FNC's regular reporters during the Israel-Hezbollah war. More than anyone else, that guy was born for war zones.
A Fox employee in Gaza, who declined to give his name because he was not authorized to release information about the incident, said the two kidnapped people were reporter Steve Centanni, a U.S. citizen, and a cameraman from New Zealand.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-08-14-gaza-kidnapping_x.htm?POE=NEWISVA
It sounds like a Fox spokesman has confirmed it was Centanni.
Those who think it is funny should go join their breathren over at DU. America-haters are getting a real chuckle out of this and would welcome you with open arms.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2455828
If so, Hamas should heed Twain's advice about not picking fights with folks who buy their ink by the barrel.
Hezbollah hate FOX news, so it's best FOX hold their tongues about this for now..
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Dang...I just heard...please, everyone pray for Steve and the camerman...
I don't care WHO it was...they deserve our prayers..
God bless them both...and their friends and families..
What a nightmare.
I think they take fair and BALANCED seriously in the news division, even when it has to do with their own people. Unlike some networks we know.
God bless them for that.
I just signed up for a Google news alert regarding this matter so if another confirmation is made (besides the USA Today article I posted above), I'll post it here.
It takes something like this to get Shep to shut his trap... geez.
The US government better come down on these asshats FAST and HARD!
I am disgusted by DU.
Prayers to them and their families.
Amen sleuth... prayers for Centanni and his cameraman. Also for all the journalists covering this madness.
I know TX, this is bad stuff. Whenever something happens to an American I get pissed.
It is when Americans start acting like blood-thirty animals and DUmmies joking about Death that I lose my cool.
They've kidnapped an American. Time to send in the Marines. All of them.
Dang. Wish I was home.
Thanks for the heads up.
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