AP Photographer Disguised with Veil
Charles Johnson
Tue Oct 24, 2006 at 4:47 pm PDT • Views: 140
Kidnapped AP photographer Emilio Morenatti, another photojournalist who seems to have an unusually close relationship with genocidal terrorist gangs, has been released—and while in captivity he learned a new use for the Islamic veil: Kidnapped AP photographer freed in Gaza.
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - An Associated Press photographer was freed unharmed Tuesday after a harrowing day in the hands of Palestinians who abducted him at gunpoint and dressed him in women’s clothes to spirit him from one secret location to another.
Emilio Morenatti was brought before midnight to the office of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas by Fatah officials. It was not clear who kidnapped him, though officials said he was taken by criminals. The government and main Palestinian groups denounced the abduction.
Morenatti, a 37-year-old Spaniard, looked fatigued after his daylong ordeal but said he was unharmed. “I’m tired but happy to have come back because there were very anguished moments,” said Morenatti.
He said the kidnappers held him in a small room, where he was kept for about four hours during which he was visited by masked men. Later he was put in a car dressed as a woman and taken to another location.
“They put a bag on my head and they dressed me up as a woman, as a woman in a long veil,” the photographer added.
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