Remember that Austrian guy who locked his daughter in a basement for 24 years?  This story is sorta like that only the children were locked in an underground cave…. in the Holy Land….  and with less vacationing in Thailand:

Nablus – Ma’an – Police in the West Bank city of Hebron arrested a man for allegedly imprisoning his son and daughter, who are now in their thirties, in two caves for over 20 years.

Police said they found the siblings in the adjoining caves during a security sweep for drugs and weapons dealers.

Only one passage leads to the two caves, which lack light and ventilation.

The siblings were taken for medical and psychological treatment.

Preliminary investigations show that the suspect was a widower who remarried. He and his wife told the police that the children were mentally disabled, and they locked them away to “avoid embarrassment.”

On Monday police announced that arrests had been made in a similar case, where a man chained and tortured his maid and young daughter in Bethlehem.

Plato would be so proud.

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From the International Middle East Media Center (IMEMC) ( or, Islam Makes Everyone Magically Confusional.  Yes, confusional is a word):

Israeli troops kidnap young boy

The Israeli army entered Hebron on Tuesday morning and kidnapped a local fourteen year old boy.

According to local reports, Israeli troops surrounded the city, erecting several checkpoints at village entrances close to Hebron, on main roads and near the Israeli settlements. The Israeli army also imposed curfew on the area.

Eye witnesses reported that the troops kidnapped fourteen year old Muhammad Ewewi and took him to an unknown destination.

First of all, a 14 year old teenager is perfectly capable of committing a criminal act. You call that fella a child? I think not. Teenagers are especially susceptible to molding and I wouldn’t disregard being shaped into a terrorist pawns as documented here and here.

Second, he was kidnapped??  uh…  last time I checked, a kidnapping usually involves the use of hostages, extracting ransom, or fraud.   Are we having trouble with translation again?  I know English can be a complicated language so let me help you out with this one.  Replace kidnapped with arrested.  There.  You see?  That wasn’t so hard, was it?

UPDATE: And another example of a “young boy” reported by ynet today.

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