Lebanon: Hizbullah kidnaps two foreign journalists in Beirut

[kpete]

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)

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3279058,00.html

[cal04]

1. Hezbollah grab foreign journos

Two foreign TV journalists and their two Lebanese assistants were abducted by the Hezbollah militia in Beirut Thursday on suspicion of spying, a Lebanese internal security forces officer said.

"The crew was filming in the area of the Sanayeh gardens (a public park) when Hezbollah elements seized them on suspicion of being spies," the officer told AFP.

He declined to give the nationalities of the two foreigners or the media organisation for which they worked.

Police and Lebanese troops deployed in the area immediately after the abduction to investigate.

http://www.news24.com/News24/World/Middle_East/0,,2-10-2075_1971089,00.html

[thereismore]

2. damn, haven't we seen this movie before? nt

[madrchsod]

3. they will be released unharmed

unless they were agents from another country.

[thinkingwoman]

4. oh, so you're psychic?

Congrats! What are Saturday's winning Powerball numbers?

[The Magistrate]

7. Thank You For The Laugh, Sir

We can all use a good chuckle in times like these.

[cali]

8. Oh well that's different

that makes it completely legitimate that they kidnapped them- or would you prefer to call it capturing?

[thinkingwoman]

10. You owe me

a new monitor for that one! :rofl:

[endarkenment]

13. The rules of war allow for the detention of spies.

I believe that is how the game is played. Israel cannot at the same time declare itself at war with Lebanon and not expect that its agents on the ground in Lebanon will not be treated as spies. Of course they may not be spies, in which case, as Hezbollah is interested in good PR, they will be released.

Would Israel act any differently?

[cali]

15. A H'zbollah militia

is not the Lebanese gov't. So although the gov't can detain suspected spies, H'zbollah cannot. It's a kidnapping, pure and simple

[endarkenment]

17. As Israel has declared there is no difference, there is no difference.

At any rate this whole 'news report' was inflammatory bullshit.


http://www.news24.com/News24/World/Middle_East/0,,2-10-2075_1971120,00.html

The tv crew was detained by the Lebanese Police, and then released.

[madrchsod]

14. why would the bad guys risk kidnapping the press ?

to paint the isreali government as the bad guys the leaders in hezbolla are counting on the world press to get their message out to the world. what benefit would it be to them to kidnap reporters when they just had the international press touring the southern beruit neighbor hoods?
i maybe wrong but it`s my opinion and will stand by it untill proven wrong

[endarkenment]

18. They didn't it was bullshit.

http://www.news24.com/News24/World/Middle_East/0,,2-10-2075_1971120,00.html

[thinkingwoman]

5. Well this can't be true

After all, Hezbollah is comprised of saints who are only concerned with building schools and feeding the poor and such. :sarcasm:

[LSK]

6. black and white

Sorry you only see the world in 2 colors.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5175002.stm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_beach_blast

[thinkingwoman]

9. You don't know anything about me

And your response indicates a serious lack of reading comprehension skills.

[endarkenment]

11. How about 'detained for questioning on suspicion of espionage'.

I realize that it is difficult to avoid partisanship in this conflict, but has it occurred to you that there may very well be spys on the ground in Beirut searching for Hezbollah?

[blonndee]

12. I'm waiting to comment on this

until there is more information that these were journalists. I just wanted to post so that a lack of responses wouldn't be perceived as endorsement of such an action.

[patdem]

16. This shit has all Democrats at each others throats..I have NEVER seen

ANYTHING like it...even the primaries were not as divisive as this Israel/Lebanon situation. NOTHING...not even Liberman/Lamont...NOTHING..What are we to do? Israel has it's rights..Lebanon has it's rights...and where will this END?