Palestinian Authority, Iraq-Style: U.S. Student Kidnapped, Freed.

Israel Faxx, June, 2006

By IsraelNationalNews.com

Benjamin Bright-Fishbein, a Brown University student studying at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, was freed by his Palestinian terrorist kidnappers just hours after he was abducted in Shechem.

The drama began around midnight Saturday night when word was received that a foreign citizen had been kidnapped by armed Arabs in the PA-controlled Samaria city of Shechem (Nablus). Israeli sources, while saying that the information had not yet been verified, made it clear that they were taking it very seriously. "If we discover that this is a classic kidnapping," said one Israeli security official, "we will not be able to pass over it."

Within three hours, however, the story was over, and the student was released - first to...

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