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The Libyan government has released four detained New York Times journalists including the photographers Tyler Hicks and Lynsey Addario.
The Libyan government has released four detained New York Times journalists — Tyler Hicks, Lynsey Addario, Stephen Farrell and Anthony Shadid
We are worried about our colleagues missing in Libya.
We are still worried about our colleagues missing in Libya: Stephen Farrell, Lynsey Addario, Anthony Shadid and Tyler Hicks.
We wish for a safe and fast return of the four journalists.
The missing journalists are Anthony Shadid, the Beirut bureau chief and twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize for foreign reporting; Stephen Farrell, a reporter and videographer who was kidnapped by the Taliban in 2009 and rescued by British commandos; and two photographers, Tyler Hicks and Lynsey Addario, who have worked extensively in the Middle East and Africa.
It is rare that the most important piece of equipment in your bag is the bag itself, even more rare for that bag to be a black plastic trash sack slung over your shoulder as you walk past pro-government thugs on a bridge over the River Nile. The trash bag’s purpose, of course, is to conceal your large nylon camera bag, which is likely to get you grabbed off the street by the aforementioned thugs.
Link: The Reporter’s Account: 4 Days With the Taliban – At War Blog – NYTimes.com:
Stephen Farrell, a reporter for The New York Times, and Sultan M. Munadi, an Afghan journalist working with him, were kidnapped by the Taliban in northern Afghanistan on Saturday. In a British raid to free them early Wednesday, Mr. Munadi was killed. This is Mr. Farrell’s account of their four-day ordeal.