CSI: Gaza - the Emilio Morenatti Kidnapping

So what happened to Emilio Morenatti, a Spanish photographer working for the Associated Press, who was taken by kidnappers? Was he kidnapped by Hamas? Fatah? One of their splinter groups? Was there collusion between the photographer and his 'kidnappers'? I hope that the photographer is released quickly (most are within a few hours after ransoms are paid) regardless of the circumstances, but this is a case for CSI: Gaza.

Charles at LGF notes that the photographer was quite friendly with the Palestinian terrorists in Gaza, and speculates if that had any effect on his kidnapping.

There's quite a few questions swirling, but this part of an AP story piqued my interest:

Ghazi Hamad, spokesman for the Hamas-led Palestinian government, condemned the kidnapping, saying it "damages the reputation of the Palestinian people."

Sorry, but I can't help but stifle a laugh on that one. Damages the reputation of the Palestinian people? As opposed to the dozens of suicide bombings of restaurants, stores, buses, and markets? The wholesale slaughter of innocents doesn't count, so long as they're Jews. Hamas has absolutely no problem calling for the annihilation of Israel, and all that entails, but this kidnapping contradicts their culture?

Contradicts the culture, morals, and religion? I spy taqiyah! If this was truly against their culture, morals, and religion, there wouldn't be suicide bombers, terrorists who kidnap journalists, and engage in mass casualty attacks to force submission to Islam.

"The government will take all steps to ensure his release," Hamad said.

Fawzi Barhoum, a Hamas spokesman, said the kidnapping "contradicts our culture and our morals and our religion." He said the Islamic militant group called on the kidnappers "not to harm Emilio and release him immediately."

The government will take the steps necessary to ensure his release? Will it be after a conversion and a good talking to because he didn't get Haniyeh's good side, just like the case of Olaf Wigg and Steve Centanni?

Will his release be secured because the people involved in his kidnapping were members of Hamas who didn't have permission to kidnap Morenatti? Is Morenatti being used as a pawn in the ongoing fight between Hamas and Fatah? That's a definite possibility given the total anarchy in Gaza and the thugs from both terror groups staking out their territory.

UPDATE:
Morenatti has been released. The kidnappers who took him dressed him up in a veil to get past security.

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.

It's rather funny listening to criminals and terrorists calling others criminals. Pot meet kettle.