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Arutz Sheva, which has a radio station and news website, made the move after a militant Nigerian group said it would withdraw its offer to help find the hostage until it apologised for using the term.
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JERUSALEM (AFP)---An Israeli religious media outlet on Thursday said it has retracted its description of the kidnappers of an Israeli man in Nigeria this week as "terrorists."
Arutz Sheva, which has a radio station and news website, made the move after a militant Nigerian group said it would withdraw its offer to help find the hostage until it apologised for using the term.
"After consultation with diplomatic sources, IsraelNationalNews.com has decided to remove the reference to the militant group in Nigeria as "terrorist," Baruch Gordon, director of English media at Arutz Sheva (IsraelNationalNews.com), said on its website.
Nigeria's most prominent armed group The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) said it had located the 60-year-old Israeli national who was kidnapped on Tuesday in Port Harcourt in the country's oil-rich but dangerous south.
It said it was withdrawing an earlier offer to try and help secure his release until Arutz Sheva apologised for referring to MEND as a terrorist organisation.
MEND, which claims to be fighting for greater control of the region's oil wealth by local people, has denied any involvement in the kidnapping.
But the group has carried out a series of violent attacks on the oil industry and kidnapped hundreds of local and expatriate workers in the restive region since coming to prominence in 2006.
