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  • FOX Journalists Forced At Gunpoint To Convert To Islam

    08/27/2006 8:48:04 AM PDT · by TaxachusettsMan · 427 replies · 7,591+ views
    FOX News Website ^ | August 27, 2006 | FOX News
    GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Two FOX News journalists were released by their kidnappers Sunday, nearly two weeks after they were taken hostage in the Gaza Strip. Steve Centanni, 60, and Olaf Wiig, 36, left Gaza and have since crossed into Israel after their release. The men left Gaza through the Erez border crossing. The freeing of Centanni, a correspondent, and Wiig, a cameraman, ends the longest-running drama involving foreign hostages in Gaza. The two journalists were dropped off at Gaza City's Beach Hotel by Palestinian security officials and appeared to be in good health. A tearful Centanni embraced a...
  • Fox News Journalists Describe Captivity

    08/27/2006 4:17:16 PM PDT · by jdm · 91 replies · 2,859+ views
    AP via Forbes ^ | 8-27-06 | IBRAHIM BARZAK
    Two Fox News journalists freed by militants Sunday described a harrowing two weeks of captivity during which they were blindfolded, tied in painful positions and forced at gunpoint to say on a video that they converted to Islam. After their release, the men met with Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh and left Gaza, but first appealed at a brief news conference for foreign journalists not to be deterred from covering the plight of the Palestinians in the volatile coastal strip. "I hope that this never scares a single journalist away from coming to Gaza to cover the story because the...
  • Breaking Fox - Kidnapped Fox journalists released

    08/27/2006 12:41:00 AM PDT · by Crazieman · 1,264 replies · 32,619+ views
    Fox News | 8-27-06 | Fox News
    Per Fox News