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To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (98)	8/28/2006 6:13:38 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 20106

FOX Journalists Forced At Gunpoint To Convert To Islam FOX News Website ^ \| August 27, 2006 \| FOX News foxnews.com GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Two FOX News journalists were released by their kidnappers Sunday, nearly two weeks after they were taken hostage in the Gaza Strip. Steve Centanni, 60, and Olaf Wiig, 36, left Gaza and have since crossed into Israel after their release. The men left Gaza through the Erez border crossing. The freeing of Centanni, a correspondent, and Wiig, a cameraman, ends the longest-running drama involving foreign hostages in Gaza. The two journalists were dropped off at Gaza City's Beach Hotel by Palestinian security officials and appeared to be in good health. A tearful Centanni embraced a Palestinian journalist briefly as he entered, then rushed upstairs as Wiig followed. Centanni, in a phone interview shortly after his release, said "I'm fine. I'm just so happy to be free." He recounted how he and Wiig were pulled out of their car on August 14 and taken at gunpoint into another car. The kidnappers blindfolded them and handcuffed their hands behind their backs with plastic ties. They were then transferred to another car and driven to a building that they later learned was a garage. "We were pushed down onto the dirt-covered concrete floor and we were forced to lie face down with our handcuffs on," Centanni said. "Olaf was in the same room with me. Our shoulders were wrenched back, very painful." Both of the men were forced to convert to Islam at gunpoint, Centanni said. "We were forced to convert to Islam at gunpoint," Centanni told FOX News. "Don't get me wrong here. I have the highest respect for Islam, and I learned a lot of good things about it, but it was something we felt we had to do because they had the guns, and we didn't know what the hell was going on."