I just wanted to call attention to this gem from The New York Times in a article about Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert rejecting the Iraq Study Group's lamebrained contention that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is somehow linked to Iraq.

In a speech last week, the prime minister said that if the Palestinians could form a unity government and release a detained Israeli soldier, he would respond by releasing hundreds of imprisoned Palestinians and meeting Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian Authority president. [emphasis added]

Detained? Kidnapped. Captured maybe, but detained? Hardly.