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CNN Producer Abducted in Gaza

(Jerusalem Post) A group of armed men abducted CNN producer Riad Ali in Gaza City on Monday. CNN correspondent Ben Wedeman said he, Ali, and CNN photographer Mary Rogers had left their Gaza office in a taxi when a white Peugeot pulled in front of them, blocking their way. A man in his early 20s and dressed in civilian clothes emerged from the car, stuck a revolver through the taxi window, and asked, "Which one of you is Riad?" Then other men carrying AK-47 assault rifles forced Ali into the back of their car. CNN President Jim Walton described Ali as "a veteran journalist of the highest integrity." (CNN) Israeli Arab journalist Riad Ali Ghanem, 40, is a Druze from the village of Maghar in the Galilee. He has worked for CNN for about two years as a producer and translator in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Before that he worked for Israel's Channel 1 TV as an Arab affairs correspondent. A graduate of Hebrew University in Jerusalem, he worked for many years as a tutor at Neveh Shalom (Oasis of Peace), a Jewish-Arab village near Latrun.
2004-09-28 00:00:00
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