Curse of Events (4)

The homo line/ kook angle was flatly contradicted by the news that the kidnap victim was happily married and had been so – it turned out - for over ten years to a Palestinian refugee. No one could see why anyone would want to kidnap the professor of semiotics. It did not make any sense from any geo-political perspective. – Why kidnap one of your own kind? Or at least in sympathy with your views? ran the argument, leading one quipster on the BB to wonder aloud if the professor swung both ways. – Or if, indeed, Hamas and the PLO had finally lost their marbles. Amid the ensuing kerfuffle the Foggo story was shunted to the back pages, then quietly dropped.