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| WND: Fox News reporters freed for $2 million |
| 2006-11-15 |
| Supporting links at link above Man, oh man. This is not going to be good however it turns out. I do not understand why Fox didn't come down on these guys like a ton of bricks after this. The terrorists played them for chumps right to the last card, and they're still doing so. Why? The least they could have done would be to run this story! So much for fair and balanced. 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 Olaf 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. |
| Posted by:gorb |
| #6 For a very brief period of time today, Drudge reported Murdoch as saying that this claim is 100% bogus (or words to that effect), but now it's gone and I can't find it anywhere. I would keep in mind that the source of this claim is "senior terror leaders" from the Popular Resistance Committees and Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, and reported by World Nut Daily. I'm skeptical. |
| Posted by: exJAG 2006-11-15 16:49 |
| #5 I'll bet for a few hundred you could find someone. If they have a grudge, they'll probably pay you for the info on where to find them! :-) |
| Posted by: gorb 2006-11-15 16:23 |
| #4 Throwing good money after bad is poor business, but I bet for another couple mil, you could hire some 'private contractors' to go explain to the parties involved why it is bad manners to kidnap reporters. Hell, I bet Old Spook knows some guys who would do it for a plane ticket and the cost of ammunition. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2006-11-15 15:16 |
| #3 It went over Rupert Murdoch's desk, for sure. |
| Posted by: Grunter 2006-11-15 12:46 |
| #2 The hell with the breakdown of which terrorist dickwads got how much, WHO THE HELL PAID? |
| Posted by: mojo 2006-11-15 10:21 |
| #1 So much for fair and balanced. Exactly. So, we can kidnap two Al Jazeera journalists and force them to convert to Christianity now, right? Heck, I will do them a discount and quote the job at 1 million. |
| Posted by: Excalibur 2006-11-15 09:38 |