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Palestinian Journos Protest Kidnapping of Fox correspondent, cameraman
 | The E&P headline is tendentious - it only mentions the cameraman, ignores the US reporter |
Palestinian journalists on Saturday protested the kidnapping of a Fox News correspondent and cameraman, as concern about the men's safety grew.
About 30 members of the Palestinian Journalists' Union gathered outside the parliamentary building in Gaza, holding up signs demanding the men be freed. Other signs called for security in Gaza, where armed men wander the streets freely.
Jennifer Griffen, chief Fox News correspondent for the Middle East, called the kidnapping a "test for the Palestinian people." "We don't care who kidnapped them, we want them returned unharmed. This is a very serious case for the Palestinians, for the Palestinian Authority," Griffen said.
| Everything that happened the last fifty years? Nah, not as serious as this. A little self-centered mayhaps, Jennifer? |
More than two dozen foreigners have been abducted by Palestinian militants, usually in an attempt to settle personal scores, but almost all have been released within hours. Security officials said they were concerned for the Fox journalists because no other foreigners have been held this long and all major militant groups in Gaza have denied involvement.
Khaled Batch, a leader of the Islamic Jihad militant group, said kidnapping members of the media "silenced the voice of freedom and justice." | and of course that has always been your highest ideal |
"We ... have experienced oppression and denial. We don't want to practice this pain and suffering on others, on other wives and people," Batch said.
Posted by: lotp 2006-08-20 |
