2006 Fox journalists kidnapping

Fox News Channel journalists Olaf Wiig (born 1970), a New Zealand photojournalist, and Steve Centanni, an American reporter, were kidnapped in the Gaza Strip from their TV van near the Palestinian security services' headquarters on August 14, 2006. The abductors were initially thought to be from a previously unknown Palestinian militant group called the "Holy Jihad Brigades"; it was later revealed that Jaysh al-Islam ("The Army of Islam"), a Salafi-jihadist group, carried out the kidnapping.

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2006 Fox journalists kidnapping

Fox News Channel journalists Olaf Wiig (born 1970), a New Zealand photojournalist, and Steve Centanni, an American reporter, were kidnapped in the Gaza Strip from their TV van near the Palestinian security services' headquarters on August 14, 2006. The abductors were initially thought to be from a previously unknown Palestinian militant group called the "Holy Jihad Brigades"; it was later revealed that Jaysh al-Islam ("The Army of Islam"), a Salafi-jihadist group, carried out the kidnapping.

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