Thursday, March 11, 2010

Hamas releases British journalist they held for a month

Paul Martin, the freelance reporter from Britain who was taken prisoner by Hamas, has been released after a month:
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Gaza’s Hamas rulers on Thursday released a British journalist they had held for a month amid allegations that he endangered the Palestinian territory’s security.

Paul Martin said he was arrested because of his work as a journalist and called his release, with the help of the British and South African governments, a "great victory for the freedom of the media."

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Mahmoud Zahar, a Hamas leader, said Martin was suspected of serious security offenses and would not be able to return to Gaza. No charges were filed against him.

Zahar suggested Thursday that Martin’s activities as a journalist brought about his arrest.

The Hamas leader alleged Thursday that Martin "was working on defaming the image of the Palestinian people by saying that they smuggle weapons through tunnels," Zahar said, referring to hundreds of border tunnels that bypass the blockade of Gaza imposed by Israel and Egypt.

The tunnels bring in commercial goods, but are widely believed to be a conduit for cash and weapons as well.

Zahar complained that Martin was also working on a story about the alleged use of civilians as human shields by Hamas.

The Hamas leader also alleged Martin was in touch with Gazans suspected of collaborating with Israel.
Now we can guess why Martin was taken hostage! And those tunnels are a conduit for weaponry. Not that the AP Wire would want to admit that. It remains to be seen, however, if Martin is willing or will be allowed to write about all these cases.

1 comment:

Total said...

On a side note, I decided to look up "Human Sheild" the other day. See below:

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


Look under 2000s and let me know if you see something extremely disturbing, but not surprising…


Welcome to bizzaro world, where right is wrong and wrong is right. Apparently using human shields is an exclusive tactic of those demonic world-controlling Zionists, along with organ harvesting, and orchestrating false flags operations like 9/11.