Thursday, October 12, 2006

Follow-up on That Kidnapping

This was reported in the NYT:-

A masked man who said he was from Ansar al-Sunna told reporters that the group’s demands were the immediate release of all Palestinian women and children in Israeli prisons. He also said Mr. Phillips had been seized to “confront the American war on Islam.”

But Ms. Atout said that “no one in the city has heard of this group.”

“I think it may just be a few individuals who are trying to get attention,” she said.

Palestinian militants have seized about two dozen Westerners in the Gaza Strip in recent years, but kidnappings in the West Bank are rare.



"but kidnappings in the West Bank are rare"

Actually, Jews get kidnapped occasionally. But the end result is usually a bullet in the head, a slashed throat or a rock-crushed head.

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