Israelis Taken Hostage in Poland

Thankfully, they're OK now.

The man is identified as Mohammed A.

Gee, I wonder what religious persuasion he is?

Polish police arrested a 23-year-old man identified as Mohammed A. after he took three young Israelis hostage in a hotel in central Warsaw on Monday, the Polish PAP news agency reported.

The man took the three hostages into a hotel room at the Holiday Inn shortly after 9 a.m. (0700 GMT) and threatened to blow up an explosive device before policemen overpowered him, a police spokesman told the PAP agency.

Police evacuated the hotel and searched it but the spokesman said no bomb had been found.

Update: According to the Jerusalem Post, they were not Israelis, rather they were Brazilian Jews.

H/T Carl in Jerusalem.