I dont know but the American Journalist suspected of espionnage that was arrested in Darfur was recently released from emprisonment..

 

It seem that Darfur authorities have a greater sens of humanity than the current regime in the US in what it did not resort to TORTURE the poor soul. Rudy, I dont know if you are aware but SPY suspects are being submitted to systemic tortures , tortures that are PRACTICED, LEGITIMIZED and RELIGIOUSLY PROPHETISED in Guatanamo Bay by the Gurus of Barbarism leading your government. Bush recently admitted to secret prisons equivalent to the Bushtapos during WWII. By all mean this torture is way worst than the Islamist torture of ordering women to wear full dresses.. For rudy and the neocon-demo fascists, its ok to torture arabs..

First , ...let's put the palestinians first my friend Michael, then let's revolt against the gest.. oopsie the Bushtapos of the Dark Empire.. :lol:

Cyrano, ignore this anonymous fool...

"c'est pour toi que tu fais la revolution".

peace, my brother.

JUST A REMINDER: COLOMBIA AND MEXICO ARE BY FAR MORE DANGEROUS THAN THE MIDDLE EAST AND SOUTH EAST ASIA , OR AFRICA FOR JOURNALISTS, OFTEN KILLED MORE THAN DETAINED, FOR ALLEGEDLY BEING EITHER "SNITCHES" (AGAINST DRUG BARONS OR CORRUPT POLITICOS, OR BUSINESS LEADERS) OR "COMMIEMONGERS", IN ONE COLOMBIAN GRAFITTI IN A VILLAGE NEAR CALI: "IF YOU SEE AN ARTIST, A JOURNALIST, A STUDENT, OR A HIPPIE.,WHIP OUT THE GUN AND TAKE OUT THE COMMUNIST"

HOW DARE FOREIGN TROOPS, DETAIN, HUMILLIATE, STRIP, TAUNT  AND FINALLY EXPEL A JOURNALIST FOR DOING HER JOB ! AND WHAT IS REALLY UNCONCEIVABLE IS THAT THEY "WARN" HER NOT TO RETURN TO PALESTINE !!??  A COUNTRY THAT IS NOT PART OF ISRAEL, BUT IS ILLEGALLY OCUPPIED BY TOTALLY FOREIGN FORCES, WHO ALSO KIDNAP  DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED OFFICIALS OF THE PALESTINIAN  AUTHORITY, RECOGNIZED BY THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY, ISRAEL AND IT'S SECURITY FORCES HAVE VIOLATED, AND CONTINUE TO DO SO, MANY OF THE UN RESOLUTIONS THAT CALL THE RE-ESTABLISHMENT OF PRE-1967 BORDERS, AND TO ALLOW THE STATE OF PALESTINE TO DEVELOP WITHOUT CONDITIONS OR "LIMITED" AUTHORITY, NOR "PROVISIONAL AUTONOMY", BUT MUST ALLOW FOR UNHINDERED, STRAIGHTFORWARD STATEHOOD !!! INMEDIATELY! IN OTHER WORDS, PALESTINE IS A COUNTRY!! NO  MORE HOLOCAUST IN PALESTINE!! TAMARA LALLI IS AMONG THE FEW BRAVE JOURNALISTS WHO DARE TELL THE TRUTH OF WHAT IS GOING ON IN THAT REGION!

Jerusalem Post

Gaza: Journalists protest censorship
By KHALED ABU TOAMEH

Palestinian journalists in the Gaza Strip complained on Tuesday that they were being subjected to a campaign of intimidation and terror by various armed groups and urged the Palestinian Authority to punish those responsible.

Several Palestinian journalists and editors have been killed or beaten over the past few years by unidentified gunmen, especially in the Gaza Strip. Until today, none of the assailants have been caught.

At a demonstration outside the offices of the Palestinian Legislative Council in Gaza City, dozens of journalists said that they were suffering from growing attempts to restrict
their work. "We condemn all methods of terror and threats practiced by some irresponsible parties in Palestinian society against Palestinian newsmen," said one of the journalists. "We are facing attacks from internal and external forces."

The journalists urged the PA to guarantee the freedom of expression in its territories and take legal action against anyone who threatens or attacks them. They also denounced the recent kidnapping of two Fox News journalists in Gaza
City and said those who carried out the abduction acted against the interests of the Palestinians.

Ibrahim Barakat, a Fatah activist who joined the protest, described the kidnapping of the journalists as an "immoral act that distorts the image of the Palestinian people's struggle."

He urged the PA to reveal the identity of the kidnappers and to bring them to court without delay.

Some of the journalists also attacked Israel for wounding some of their colleagues during IDF incursions into the Gaza Strip.

In a separate development, a row has erupted between journalists in the Gaza Strip over a meeting some them held earlier this week with PA Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh.

The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate, a body dominated by Fatah supporters, accused Haniyeh's office of "discrimination" in deciding who would attend the meeting. It claimed that only Hamas-affiliated journalists were invited to the meeting.

"Haniyeh's office ignored journalists working in important media outlets such as Palestine TV and the Wafa News Agency," the syndicate said. "This is a very serious development that will have repercussions on many levels."

According to the syndicate, Haniyeh's decision to keep many to boycott many of its members coincides with increased attempts to terrorize Palestinian journalists and prevent them from carrying out their job.

In response, the 13 journalists who were invited to interview Haniyeh launched a scathing attack on the syndicate, accusing it of stupidity and impotence. They said the attack on Haniyeh's office was an indication that the syndicate was acting out of "factional considerations." They said the syndicate had lost its right to represent all journalists because of the behaviour of its heads.

Jamal Nazzal, a spokesman for Fatah in the West Bank, accused the Hamas-controlled government of harassing local journalists and media outlets.

He sad the government was practicing "information starvation" by boycotting major news organizations and journalists, including Palestine TV and radio. "They prefer to deal with foreign journalists," he said. "They are trying to undermine and discredit the official media."

Meanwhile, sources close to Hamas revealed that the movement will launch its own satellite TV station next month. Last year Hamas's local TV station went on the air for the first time, but its programs were viewed only in parts of the Gaza Strip.

The sources said that the Hamas TV would use the services of the Egyptian satellite company Nilesat, which was established in 1996 and which operates hundreds of satellites in the Arab world.

Good lord , proof read your spelling.. I dont see how socialists were being hypocrites on the reporting.. an argentinian journalist was reported kidnapped by israelis forces.. In darfur it was different altogether, it was an arrest because the journalist in question was suspected of spying. on top, this is being highly suspect: what does a white ass american monkey doing in Darfur? If it was the american finding a spy it would have been sent to guatanamo bay get tortured by rumsfelf himself.. For one you didn't really care because the kidnapped journalist was argentinian, but the minute you hear an american spy get arrested your scream kidnapping.. I dont know , if you are at war with hypocrites, remove the republican from power and reform your democracy..

Cryano, you truely are an idiot.  This thread was started by someone claiming a journalist arrested in Israel was kidnapped.  Follow up threads pointed to the hypocrisy of socialists by ignoring the same acts in socialist/totalitarian regimes.  And in the final thread, you side with those pointing to the hypocrisy by saying, "a journalist get arrested it becomes a kidnapping..." 

I'm guessing psychologically you feel that you "don't belong," and socialist organizations, which proport to represent the downtrodden and outsiders, have accepted you.  Hence your zeal for all things leftist - someone has finally accepted you.   Am I close?

 

I dont know, I never met a jew hating socialist..when you meet one, introduce him to me.. damn. thousand of palestinian babies dies, not a scream from these americans, a tiny journalist (could be a terrorist) get jailed because suspected of espionage it becomes a big deal just because he is "american". afrika number one killer is maleria, aids come second and third is dead by war imposed by the US, a journalist get arrested it becomes a kidnapping...

Holy Smokes! Sudan has kidnapped an American Reporter!

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0608280219aug28,0,6562479.story?coll=chi-homepagepromo440-fea

 Will the Jew hating socialists cry out, "Let our reporter go"?

journalist in the areas are witnesses..if they got targeted , it is because they saw something compromising..

There is no excuse to kidnap journalists. This is far from the first time Israel have done this. Just to take another example, from Lebanon. A column of cars of journalists were attacked by Isareli fire. The IDF knew who and what they were. Their cars were clearly marked. Why would Israel target journalists? My guess is it has something to do with them telling the truth (or thereabouts), and the truth is inconvenient for Israel.

The news report makes it clear that the reporters were traveling to where the fighting was to cover the story. They new the risks they were taking. Why would Israel target reporters? What possible gain, even in the most anti-Israel point of view, how can this benefit Israel? Do you actually think that Israel thinks that this will give Israel good press? Or that this will scare away coverage of Gaza? If Israel wanted to do this it could do what Syria, China and many other dictatoships do: Ban or severly censor media.

Let me guess.. You went harvarti university where you studied cheeses, there you acquired the skills to be a psychic and you also acquired the ability to see typos. Monsieur, je vous en prie, il faut savoir apprecié la différence..

Proof read your post.  Case in point.

you are the Psychic, you tell me.. educsation my friend has nothing to do with common sens, you have professors in political science in universities whom would vote for GWB..and teach your children to be racists.

Cyrano, I'm very curious, what is your native language and education level?  Your posts often read as if a 14 year old wrote them. 

Everyone knows that this is a big hoax.  These "journalists" say Jill Carrol and thought they too could get famous by being "kidnapped".  There are way to many inconsistancies in their tale.  Like how it was not claimed by any of the known groups, like how the video of them showed no "kidnappers", like how the demands for the prisner releases made now sense and stretched across the sunni-shia divide, like how they were allowed to stay in there street cloths, including t-shirts with western advertisements on them, like how they were released without any reason given, like how they have no bruises or scratches (come on if you are going to fake it atleast cut yourself), like how the one guy remained clean shaven, etc. etc. etc....

 

Smells like BS to me.

 

MTbrad 

we knows how american like to silence news people, in fact it did only that in Iraq.. recently Israelis silenced Reuters by bombing the news blinded car!

 

Welcome in the real world were murder and crime should go unreported.. 

Big deal, she was released in Jordan it what seems like a few hours later.  She is entering a war zone and who knows what she was really up to, would not be the first time a journalist didn't exactly stay neutral.  Israel warned journalists not to reveal locations of Katyusha landing, something which Al Jazeera journalists violated.  Even if true exactly as printed in this blog (and I bet there is the "other side" to the story that we have not heard), we should remember that she was not "kidnapped" and is not being held for some ransom.  It looks as if she were detained, questioned (yes, maybe harshly), and released, and asked not to return.

Good point anonymous.  (This is George Boone)-

A recent article about Journalists worldwide (http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0206/p02s02-woiq.html) shows that other countries are the real problem, but the usual obesession with all acts by Israel clouds people's judgement on where they should focus their attention to really make a difference.  Will we EVER see a Znet blog criticizing CUBA for jailing journalists?  I doubt it.  I quote sections from the article:

Worldwide, 63 journalists were killed last year [2005]- the most since the Algerian conflict, when 57 journalists were killed between 1993 and 1996, according to Reporters Without Borders.

[Regarding Iraq] "It's an unprecedented wave of violence against journalists," says Joel Simon of the Committee to Protect Journalists, founded in 1981 and based in New York. "It's the most dangerous conflict since we began systematically documenting these kinds of violations."

The Philippines was the second most deadly place for a reporter to work last year. Seven journalists were killed there for their reporting, and dozens were physically assaulted. They were among more than 1,300 worldwide who were attacked. In Bangladesh and Nepal, beatings and assaults were reported almost daily. China and Cuba led the world in locking up reporters, with 32 and 24 journalists jailed, respectively. The total was 126 worldwide.

As usual, an amazing amount of "blog" time on Israel, while I can probably document in my sleep dozens of similar actions by China and Russia, much larger countries, with much more worldwide influence and economic interest to the US.  I see little criticizing these countries.  The fact is that Israel has a free media, welcoming journalists from around the world, in contrast to most arab nations and of course China.  This of course is ignored.  We have generally unsubstantiated reports, with all the facts not known, regarding a country (as pointed out before) that is at war.  BUT LET'S PICK ON ISRAEL HEE HEE HEE, much easier to focus on a small country with 6 million people than 1.2 billion china and nearly the entire muslim world. 

Lookie here - muslim extremists kidnapping journalists.  Will there be an outcry on the Znet board?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060826/ap_on_re_mi_ea/gaza_journalists

Countries such as Syria, Iran, China, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, and Indonesia routinely detain journalists and those countries ARE NOT at war.  Israel, on the other hand, is at war.  Surely you understand the danger of aiding and abedding the enemy?  So my question is, why do you single out Israel and not the others?  Do you think Israel should allow people who call for or sympathise with those that call for the destruction of Israel to roam free within her borders?  Spare me the revolutionary talk.  What is the rational for your position?

Should a Chinamen, for example, be able to travel to Spain, and protest the Spanish government with impunity? If someone speaks publicly on a subject, and a third party has knowledge of that speech, how is that spying? Should a US president, for example travel the world, declare war on helpless and innocent people, sponsor all terrorist organization and is responsible for aggravation to poverty be left with impunity? what about the country or the people whom supported him? should the people be also be left with impunity? If palestinians should be punished for electing Hamas, should american be punish for having elected the worst psychopaths ?

This happens quite often. Both with journalists and even government officials and politicians. Last year high-ranking politicians from Norway wanted to visit the Palestinian areas and talk to the Israeli government about their policy towards Palestinians. They weren't allowed into Palestine or Israel. Also shows the extreme media bias about kidnappings of "our side" and "their side". Two "journalists" from Fox News (they're not really journalists when they work for Fox News, they are propagandists) were kidnapped some days ago in Gaza. It's been mentioned several times in the TV news, and there's been video photage of them. Very good coverage in other words. This incident of an Israeli kidnapping of an Argentine journalists isn't reported anywhere. Neither are the thousands of other kidnappings Israel have committed over the years. They even kill people for no apparent reason, and still the media won't touch it. It amounts to bias and in the end propaganda. The media overlook Israeli crimes and only report Palestinians crimes. The results is as expected - people think Palestinians are terrible criminals and terrorists, while Israel are only defending themselves against these crimes and terror attacks. Just had a short discussion today with a normally reasonable person, and the anti-Palestinians bias is obvious. Mass killings by Israel are described as "sad" and "not helping their cause", while kidnappings and other crimes by Palestinians are described as "terror". It's exactly the same image as the media are painting for us.

Should a Chinamen, for example, be able to travel to Spain, and protest the Spanish government with impunity? If someone speaks publicly on a subject, and a third party has knowledge of that speech, how is that spying?