Breitbart reports on journalists kidnapped in Gaza

Palestinian gunmen ambushed a car carrying a Fox News crew in Gaza City on Monday and kidnapped two of the journalists inside, according to witnesses and Fox. "We can confirm that two of our people were taken against their will in Gaza," Fox News said in a statement.

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.

The men, along with a bodyguard, were parked near the headquarters of the Palestinian security services when two trucks filled with gunmen pulled up and boxed them in, according to the employee. The gunmen took the two out of their sports utility vehicle, which was marked "TV," and drove away, he said.

Major militant groups in Gaza denied having any connection to the abduction, and there was no immediate word of any demands made.

Security officials put police across Gaza on alert to find the gunmen and free the journalists, said Interior Ministry spokesman Khaled Abu Hilal.

"This is not acceptable at all," he said.

Several foreigners have been kidnapped in Gaza in recent months with their abductors demanding jobs from the Palestinian Authority or the release of people being held in Palestinian jails. All those kidnapped have been released within hours without harm.

My prayers go out for the safe return of these highly qualified journalists. Michelle Malkin has more information regarding the two journalists. Flopping Aces seems to be experiencing yet another bout of 'techical difficulties'.

Unerringly, the unwashed posters as DU responding reacting to the news of this kidnapping had comments like this:

...do we have to pay to get the Palestinians to keep them?

Would not Hamas be entirely justified in regarding FOX employees as "enemy combatants", using the same pathetic, arbitrary criteria we used to send people to Gitmo?

These DU posters constitute the mainstream ideology of today's Democratic Party. A scary picture,indeed, but one that can be rectified in the 06 and 08 election cycles.

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