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Big_Bird
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
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 Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 1:57 am Post subject: Was the Fox kidnapping staged? |
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Since the Fox Journalist kidnapping incident, there's been a lot of people voicing their sceptism of this clumsy action by a never before heard of Palestinian extremist group. Some even think it was staged by Fox and the journos themselves. Just now I came across yet another piece in this vein: http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=107&ItemID=10942 in which the writer darkly hints at possible Israeli involvement.
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Two Fox News journalists, Steve Cantani and Olas Wing were released by their Palestinian kidnappers in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, August 27. Just one day earlier, two Reuters� cameramen were seriously wounded in an apparently deliberate Israeli strike on their clearly marked vehicle, according to news reports. The names of the two wounded cameramen, however, as well as their story went largely unreported. Their plight seemed inconsequential compared to that of the Fox News journalists.
Video recordings released earlier by the kidnappers of Cantani and Wing revealed undeniable similarities between their scandalous style - wrecking with ignorance and artlessness � and that of Iraqi groups, notorious for their gory beheadings and other acts of savagery. The Palestinian group expectedly has no clear past and no apparent affiliation with any other known Palestinian faction. They laid impossible demands and employed Islamic rhetoric. Both journalists were forced to convert to Islam, in a very disturbing, yet amateurish act. Any Islamic interpretation, no matter how fundamental, forbids such practice. Qoranic verses in this regard are any thing but disputable.
Did the Holy Jihad Brigades � a dodgy name by any Palestinian standards � know that forcing a person to recite that �There is No God but Allah� doesn�t qualify him/her as a Muslim? What business did the dubious �holly worriers� of Gaza have demanding a release of �all Muslim prisoners� in American jails? Not enough Palestinians in Israeli prisons, perhaps?
How interesting that the Palestinian kidnappers wished to �twist American arms� � which was of course met with US courage and defiance � the same way that the capturers of Israeli soldier (name) on (date) tried to extract concessions from Israel when rightfully demanded the release of Palestinian women and children held illegally in Israeli jails. Once again the American public are being introduced to the excessive ways of Islamic terror, and once again are forced to appreciate the �courage� and defiance of the Israeli government in the face of extortion and intimidation.
While the kidnapping of the two Fox News journalists � the method, the demands and the dark-age presentation that lasted for two weeks � all exhibit the work of a largely disturbed and ignorant young men � their timing and the PR disaster they�ve caused is hardly above suspicion. It clearly shows that there was in fact a hidden agenda behind that apparent idiocy, one that had nothing to do with the spread of Islam or the release of Muslim prisoners in American jails.
Though, it�s difficult, if not impossible to determine for sure who was exactly behind that charade, it�s important to fathom the context in which it took place.
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While I have no particular opinion on this, I was curious of any other literature on this. Anyone? |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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I seem to remember that first American to get his head cut off was that Nick Berg guy and there were some people who claimed the video was fake and it was some kind of conspiracy.
Some of the things in the article sound fishy. However, that doesn't mean it is accurate, in context, or interpreted correctly. It's like the "man never landed on the moon" and the conspiracy people point out there are no stars in the photos taken on the moon. THERE SHOULD BE STARS. Yeah, you think, no stars sounds pretty darn fishy.
Of course there is a very good scientific reason why there are no stars in moon photos. But until you hear the other side, the experts, the conspiracy nut POV sounds quite rational. |
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On the other hand
Joined: 19 Apr 2003
Location: I walk along the avenue
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| Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 7:41 am Post subject: |
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I seem to remember that first American to get his head cut off was that Nick Berg guy and there were some people who claimed the video was fake and it was some kind of conspiracy.
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As I recall, the screaming when Berg gets beheaded seemed to me to be coming from off-camera, and did not sound like a male voice. Not saying it was a hoax, just that those were my observations and I'm wondering if anyone else thought the same thing. |
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