Journalists' kidnappers demand release of Muslims in US

A previously unheard of Palestinian group, the Holy Jihad Brigades, today claimed it had kidnapped two Fox News journalists and set a 72-hour deadline to swap them for Muslim prisoners held in US jails.

Footage from the Palestinian news agency Ramattan, which has not yet been broadcast, would be the first sign of American correspondent Steve Centanni, 60, and cameraman Olaf Wiig, 36, of New Zealand since they were kidnapped on August 14 from their TV van near the Palestinian security services headquarters in Gaza City.