Kidnapped Fox reporters freed in Gaza

[BIV]

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-08-27T095704Z_01_L27804133_RTRUKOC_0_UK-MIDEAST-GAZA-KIDNAPPINGS.xml

Wow, this is great news.


Kidnapped Fox reporters freed in Gaza

By Nidal al-Mughrabi
GAZA (Reuters) - Militants in the Gaza Strip released two kidnapped journalists from the American Fox News Channel on Sunday after the men appeared on a videotape saying they had converted to Islam, Fox said. Fox said correspondent Steve Centanni, a 60-year-old American, and New Zealand-born cameraman Olaf Wiig, 36, were in a hotel in the Palestinian coastal strip.
They hugged colleagues inside the hotel lobby before running up the stairs to a higher floor, Fox News footage showed.

"Our heroes are home," Fox anchorman Shepard Smith said in a live broadcast from New York.


More story after the jump.

[THE FEZ MAN]

oh well i was hopeing for another beheading video on orgrish

[Arc Lite]

Good news indeed.

[Sinn Fein]

I saw something that they made them convert to Islam on video?

[MrBogey]

Yea, it's well accepted among most muslims that you can torture, beat, and threaten non-muslims until they convert.

[JoeFromDetroit]

Converting is a lot better than having a stump as a head.

But I think Ollie North would have cut his own head off before ever converting.

Oh, btw...i'm waitng for the new conspiracy to be that Bush and "Faux News" (LOL LOL LOL LOL - clever) set it all up, maaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnn.

[Taso]

And what would happen to them now if once they get back home and say "Fuck it" and go back to their own respective religions?

[LiddyRules]

And what would happen to them now if once they get back home and say "Fuck it" and go back to their own respective religions? Base charge in base of brain. You so much as pray North and kablowee.

[whoisisthis]

I've often wondered if any of the beheading vivtims tried the "convert to islam" tactic



I sure as fuck would

[Sinn Fein]

I'm sure the animals brought out a big knife and started making references to the al-Zarqawi beheading videos as a way to entice this "conversion" to that savage religion.

[mendozathejew]

a very interesting article from the washington post on israel's targeted killings, the decion making process the military goes through weighing the civilian casualties against future attacks they terrorist might commit. much more complicated than you would probably assume

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14536281/from/RS.5/