Steve Centanni and Olaf Wiig are set free in Gaza.
as reported by the Jerusalem Post.
The two Fox News journalists kidnapped in the Gaza Strip on Aug. 14 were released Sunday afternoon. They were dropped off at Gaza City’s Beach Hotel, dressed in Western-style clothing, and quickly walked through the lobby and rushed upstairs.
Earlier Sunday morning, Palestinian Authority Interior Ministry spokesman Khaled Abu Hilal, said the two hostages, cameraman Olaf Wiig of New Zealand and correspondent Steve Centanni of the US, would be released “within hours” unharmed.
A short while later a video was released by the kidnappers showing the two prisoners in good health. During the recording, the journalists claimed that they had converted to Islam, a decision which they said was made without any coercion. Sitting on the floor in a traditional Islamic robe, they also condemned Israel for their military operations in the Gaza Strip.
Michelle has been covering this all weekend.
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August 28th, 2006 at 12:45 pm
FOX reporters freed, but humiliated via forced con
Steve Centanni and Olaf Wiig were freed by their captors, who were most likely members of the Hamas and PLO.
If you ask me, the captors’ forcing the two to convert to Islam at gunpoint was very likely intentional - they likely knew that they worke…