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August 28, 2006       Share:    

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/27/AR2006082700159.html

Fox News Journalists Released in Gaza after Forced to Convert to Islam

[Washington Post] Doug Struck and Howard Kurtz - After being forced at gunpoint to say they embraced Islam, American reporter Steve Centanni, 60, and New Zealand cameraman Olaf Wiig, 36 - two Fox News journalists kidnapped 13 days ago - were delivered unharmed to a Gaza hotel Sunday. A videotape sent to al-Jazeera television just hours before their release showed the two men somberly reading texts criticizing the American administration and saying they had become Muslims and had taken the names Mohammed and Yusef. "We were forced to convert to Islam at gunpoint," Centanni said.

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