Romenesko

Time.com
Palestinian security sources say the conditions presented by the group that kidnapped two Fox News staffers are little more than a stall tactic, and that the kidnapping has much more to do with internal Palestinian and Islamic militant politics than with striking a blow against Israel and the US. Time.com reports: "The true motivation ... was to discredit both Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority -- who rashly told Condoleezza Rice that he could free the pair of journalists swiftly -- and Ismael Haniyeh, the Palestinian prime minister, whose Hamas-led government has tried to crack down on Fatah splinter groups' roaming death squads and extortion rackets in Gaza."