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Two foreign journalists removed by Hezbollah in Beirut - UPDATE: see post #61
AFP via Babelfish translation | July 20, 2006

Posted on 07/20/2006 9:51:04 AM PDT by HAL9000

Two foreign journalists removed by Hezbollah in Beirut

BEIRUT - Two foreign journalists of television and their assistants Lebanese who filmed Thursday in a district of the center of Beirut were removed by members of the party Hezbollah Shiite, one learned near a senior police officer.

"the team was filming in the gardens of Sanayeh", a public park which accomodates a number of refugees in the center of Beirut, according to this officer.

"Of the elements of Hezbollah seized them suspecting them of being spies", it affirmed, refusing to give the nationality from two abroad and the media for which they work.

A witness, Issa Othmane, told to have seen a car with the panes tinted to approach the journalists.

The occupants theirs asked for their identity, then left them the vehicle. A quarrel followed, then the journalists thorough in the car and were taken along quickly.

This witness specified that the two assistants Lebanese, a woman and a man, had also been removed.

Police officers and soldiers were deployed in the sector immediately after the removal of the two journalists.

"We try to find a solution with this business", added the senior police officer without providing details.



TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abduction; beirut; captives; hezbollah; hostages; journalists; lebanon; reporters
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1 posted on 07/20/2006 9:51:07 AM PDT by HAL9000
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To: HAL9000
"Of the elements of Hezbollah seized them suspecting them of being spies . . . ." [sic]

Yeah, your own probably. /sarc

2 posted on 07/20/2006 9:53:29 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: HAL9000

Wonderful Babblefish...


3 posted on 07/20/2006 9:54:12 AM PDT by Publius6961 (Multiculturalism is the white flag of a dying country)
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To: 1rudeboy

"Everybody, please to be getting from street!"

from "The Russians Are Coming!"


4 posted on 07/20/2006 9:54:31 AM PDT by RexBeach ("There is no substitute for victory." -Douglas MacArthur)
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To: HAL9000

CNN? They were running around with them the other day.


5 posted on 07/20/2006 9:54:52 AM PDT by BigFinn
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To: 1rudeboy

Well I sure wouldn't want to be a reporter on the Lebanon interior or border.


6 posted on 07/20/2006 9:55:08 AM PDT by sarasota
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To: RexBeach

Send in the Tech Police...
http://www.techwarrior.co.uk/?ac=vid&vid=37025743


7 posted on 07/20/2006 9:55:15 AM PDT by AmericanRepublican (There are fools on both sides. Only the true Americans will prevail.)
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To: RexBeach

What a great movie. Thanks for reminding me to rent it.


8 posted on 07/20/2006 9:55:20 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: HAL9000

Hmmmm...Israeli bunker busters must be hitting home.


9 posted on 07/20/2006 9:55:35 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: HAL9000

Fox News? BBC? SkyNews?

Inquiring minds want to know.


10 posted on 07/20/2006 9:56:14 AM PDT by eyespysomething (How do I set a laser printer to stun?)
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To: Publius6961

The Babblefish translation reads like, well, Babblefish.


11 posted on 07/20/2006 9:56:28 AM PDT by b4its2late (Liberals are as confused as a hungry baby in a topless bar.)
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To: BigFinn

bttt


12 posted on 07/20/2006 9:56:30 AM PDT by txhurl
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To: All

We can only hope those taken are from our MSM!!


13 posted on 07/20/2006 9:56:44 AM PDT by cousair
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To: HAL9000
I hope the journalists weren't French:

When a jihadi cuts the throat of a screaming, liberal Frenchman...WHOM TO HATE MORE...?!

I hope to remain unconflicted.

14 posted on 07/20/2006 9:58:16 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: All
FROM YNET NEWS:

Lebanon: Hizbullah kidnaps two foreign journalists in Beirut

According to local police in Beirut, Hizbullah operatives kidnapped two foreign journalists in the center of the city Thursday.

No further details are available at this time. (AFP)

15 posted on 07/20/2006 9:58:28 AM PDT by areafiftyone (Politicans Are Like Diapers - Both Need To Be Changed Often And For the Same Reason!)
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To: eyespysomething

Geraldo? We would not be sooooooooooo lucky!


16 posted on 07/20/2006 9:59:45 AM PDT by TexKat
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To: cousair

Was this predictable or what?


17 posted on 07/20/2006 10:00:01 AM PDT by AGreatPer
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To: Peach; DvdMom

RY2 got out just in time. Here they go...


18 posted on 07/20/2006 10:00:08 AM PDT by MarMema
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To: HAL9000
“Of the elements of Hezbollah seized them suspecting them of being spies.”
All your spy are belong to us!
19 posted on 07/20/2006 10:00:28 AM PDT by cartan
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To: HAL9000
Isn't this the way it always works with these cowards? First they run their mouths and piss off the neighborhood tough guy. Then, when he comes to kick their butts, they shanghai some innocent bystander and beat the crap out of him. Some guy who had nothing to do with the conflict pays with his life because these weenies can't finish the fight they started.

The Arab mindset is less psychology than pathology.

20 posted on 07/20/2006 10:00:42 AM PDT by IronJack
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