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Posted on 08/27/2006 12:34:15 PM PDT by jdm
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The first thing Olaf Wiig told his family after militants released him in the Gaza Strip Sunday was that he was sorry he'd worried them, relatives said.
"His first comment was that he was sorry he had put us through that," the Fox News cameraman's father, the Rev. Roger Wiig, told reporters in New Zealand.
"We are glad to hear his voice and his concerns straight away," Wiig said. "It's been a long and difficult wait," he said.
The reverend said his son, 36, told him by telephone from Gaza that he had "recognized it was a very dangerous situation. Particularly I think the last few days have been quite tense."
"He said, 'We needed to be careful and to make statements that would get us out,'" the minister said when asked about Wiig and colleague Steve Centanni's saying, on a video recording released by their captors, that they had converted to Islam in captivity.
"You have to understand the duress," the elder Wiig said.
The cameraman's twin brother, Sven, said the family hopes Olaf will seek a safer career — but his father said it was unlikely Olaf "will be an office-based person."
Olaf sounds like a prince, apologizing to his family for being a hostage. Refreshing to see a public person thinking of someone other than himself.
He in Muslim now, he must think of others and wish peace to all.
I am looking at FOX NEWS video from the Gaza hotel when they returned, place permanently in the hotel lobby is a picture of the state of Palestine, it is encompassing the all state of Israel, as usual.
Not only is he princely, he is one hell of a hunk, too. Real easy on the eyes for the girls.
Sounds like he's got a twin brother, wonder if he's single? wink wink! Of course we would get booted off FR for dating a "muslim"
I'm so overjoyed that they are now free, unfortunately, this event will haunt them till the day they die, I know it would me. I'm sure they were thinking about how other hostages were treated, Nic Berg, etc, and especially our two soldiers who were tortured and brutalized.
Thank you God for bringing them home!!!
He was only a Muslim while the gun was pointed at him.
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