{"id":222,"date":"2004-09-28T21:34:53","date_gmt":"2004-09-29T02:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=222"},"modified":"2004-09-28T21:35:41","modified_gmt":"2004-09-29T02:35:41","slug":"abducted-cnn-producer-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=222","title":{"rendered":"Abducted CNN Producer Released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let me take a moment to pat my own back.  Last night, after CNN producer Riad Ali was kidnapped by Palestinian bandits, I posted <a href=\"http:\/\/targetcentermass.com\/index.php?p=219\">the following<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>First, Hamas and the Palestinian Authority have to disavow involvement and, if it turns out they have any influence on these bandits, will work to ensure a safe and quick release. They have to avoid biting the hand that feeds them which, in this case, is a friendly international media.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Today, CNN is reporting that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/WORLD\/meast\/09\/28\/producer.abducted\/index.html\">Ali has been set free<\/a> by his captors.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>CNN producer Riad Ali was released Tuesday, almost 24 hours after he was abducted by armed gunmen, and is now in the custody of Palestinian police.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly before his release, a videotape surfaced in which <strong>Ali explained he was being held by the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a militant offshoot of Arafat&#8217;s Fatah movement.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I called it, but it seemed pretty obvious, to be honest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let me take a moment to pat my own back. Last night, after CNN producer Riad Ali was kidnapped by Palestinian bandits, I posted the following: First, Hamas and the Palestinian Authority have to disavow involvement and, if it turns out they have any influence on these bandits, will work to ensure a safe and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-middle-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}