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Report: NBC Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel Missing in Syria

Dec. 17, 2012 1:18pm Erica Ritz

Report: NBC News Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engle Missing in Syria

(Photo: Twitter/@RichardEngel)

Social media outlets are abuzz with the news that NBC chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel has been missing in Syria since last Thursday.

Turkish media first published the report, but NBC is staying silent and everyone is hoping it is an unsubstantiated rumor.

Gawker summarizes what is known so far:

NBC News has been asking every reporter who inquires about the report to participate in a news blackout. It has also taken to Twitter and asked people who repeated the Turkish reports there to take them down. You can see here a screengrab of the Twitter account @NBCComm asking a Twitter user who had mentioned the reports to urgently call a cell phone number (that account has since been taken down).

NBC News declined to comment for the record about Engel’s whereabouts, but asked Gawker not to report what it characterized as “rumors” about Engel’s current status.

The Turkish reports have been referenced on Twitter by Slate’s David Weigel, Michelle Malkin, former MSNBC anchor David Shuster, and hundreds of others.

(Photo: Twitter via Gawker)

Chinese newswire Xinhua, Daily Kos, and Breitbart.com have also both repeated the Turkish reports. [Emphasis added]

Even some of those reports are starting to come down, though. What was once a related Daily Kos article now shows an “Error!” sign, saying the entry has been deleted.

(Photo: Daily Kos)

When journalists have gone missing in the past, news agencies have attempted to keep the issue quiet for the journalists’ safety, and to give the potential captors as little leverage as possible.

National security correspondent for The Nation Jeremy Scahill is arguing on Twitter for people to respect the media blackout, Business Insider notes.

“When the family/employer of a missing journalist asks media to do a blackout, that should be respected,” he wrote.

Scahill later added: “There are processes going on that other media are not privy to and you should respect that. It could mean life/death for the missing journo.”

Here is NBC’s last report with Engel in Syria, from December 13:

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FireWall0400
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 3:52pm
Would be really nice if the media protect the privacy of other people… I don’t see a media blackout to protect the general public at large… I guess you have to just say “An unnamed source who could not comment on the matter because they were not authorized to discuss it”

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- LaBelle
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 9:38pm
  It says “missing” but I wonder by whom.
  
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bluehen
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 3:49pm
@BSDETECTOR

So you don’t believe you should pay taxes? So, since you said you reside in NJ, which was hit by the hurricane and lets say for argument sake that your trailer was washed away and all you had left was your bible and gun, would you accept a handout from FEMA to help get you back on your feet? Would you use medicade/medicare if you needed too? Once again, another unintelligent republican mouth breather that is voting against his own interests. And before you said that I do the same, I can’t think of one freedom that has been taken away from me since President Obama took office. I still live in a sick apartment, still make a great living and help out people that are less fortunate. Yup, doing pretty good.

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- macpappy
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 3:59pm
  You are a government employee, noob. You are the problem, and you don’t even see it.
  My house was washed away, or very badly damaged in hurricane IKE. I did not take a dime from you are any other taxpayer to restore my home. My insurance company did not pay for my flood damage so I ate the cost. I chewed vigerously, shallowed twice and moved on.
  It is you, the parisite living in a government supplied “sick” apt. that is draining the capital from the free market.
  
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- BSdetector
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 4:24pm
  @bluehen
  Give me back all the taxes I paid to FEMA, Social Security, Medicare, Unemployment, foodstamps, welfare etc, etc. and I would absolutely go it on my own.
  
  Give me back all the money I pay for nearly any federal service save Military, and I as well as the people who receive it would be much happer and more productive.
  
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- bluehen
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 4:29pm
  @BSDETECTOR
  
  So if you had no internet because there was money to fund satellites that the mobile companies use to post your drivel, that would be ok too? And no taxes to fix the roads or subway systems or mass transit or bridge and tunnels, that would be good by you? Dude, then just ef off and live in the woods. Do you want your money back from the bush admin for getting us into two unfunded wars? Let me know.
  
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- Chromo200
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 4:31pm
  BLUEHEN .. Wow your such a saint .. You help the unfortunate, it is your choice, not being forced to give your money to help.
  
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- bluehen
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 4:41pm
  @CHROMO200
  
  Saint, no way bro. I have definitely done my dirt, but my motivations to be successful are three fold: Take care of my parents and brother if need be, provide for my wife and children and help people that need help. You honestly see something wrong with that? Keep in mind, I am not asking anyone else to do what I do, just not hit the people that can’t hit back.
  
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- BSdetector
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 4:55pm
  @bluehen
  Internet uses primarily land lines so nice try there. As for roads, bridges, subways, mostly State and local governments supply those. Notice I said FEDERAL services… Are you asking if I think the feds should be giving out grants, etc for those projects? The answer is NO! If NY wants a tunnel, let NY’er pay for it. If Texas wants a bridge, let Texans pay for it. Don’t bleed me for to add pork to some other states pet project…
  
  I do want the money back from the Bush’s wars. I’d like the money back from Obama’s wars as well.
  Go live in the woods huh? Too bad you still have to pay your federal taxes in the woods, genius.
  
  Same old recycled ******* talking points, you guys haven’t had a new idea in 70+ years.
  You know Hitler deficit spent tons on roads, highways, bridges, social welfare, etc, etc and bankrupted his country as well… Perhaps we should elect our current Dear Leader to Fuhrer and be done with it?
  
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- BSdetector
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 5:03pm
  wow, libt@rd is a banned word?
  
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- bluehen
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 5:06pm
  @BSDETECTOR
  
  Lets start slow.. Take a company like hughsnet that uses satellites for internet, or companies that get federal grants for high speed internet that doesn’t travel of land lines but have their own dedicated lines. Ok, now that’s one rebuttal for you to suck on. Next, which war did obama start sweetie? I mean, he is in the process of ending two of them, but can’t think of one that he started. Next.. As for living in the woods, if you build your own little shack, and don’t work (like you), why would you pay taxes? Man, your arguments are pretty easy to chew through.
  
  As for the Hitler comment, i am surprised it took you so long to come up with that one. Just like a good fox news tool..
  
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- BSdetector
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 5:18pm
  Your first statement makes the assumption that the feds SHOULD be picking winners in private business, which is wrong in and of itself, so not much of a rebuttal at all.
  
  Which wars did Obama start? Well he drug us INTO Libya, supplied Al Qaeda and Muslim Brotherhood with arms in Libya, Syria, other “arab spring” countries, extended and expanded the war in Afghanistan, and expanded drone use around the world. I’m sure im missing a few but you get the gist.
  What land would you build this “little shack” on without paying all sorts of taxes during and after construction and what money would you buy this land with, without paying income taxes?
  
  As for hitler, don’t be mad because I beat you to your own accusation…
  
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- bluehen
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 5:36pm
  @BSDETECTOR.
  
  LOL. How many US troops are in Libya or did we just fly overhead and drop munitions along with 19 other countries? Gave weapons to Al Qaeda.. Dude, you’re too funny. Any proof of that, bc I surely haven’t seen any? Drone attacks!! You still haven’t shown me proof of him starting a war. You made suggestions that he deployed more US treasure to already existing ones, but nope, hasn’t actually started a new one. Jeezus dude, you’re pretty sad. Make a claim and nothing to support it.
  
  Started a war, nope, hasn’t started a war. He may have prevented a mass killing of one’s own people, but there is no ongoing war. And follow me here, you mean to tell me that if you just packed up your isht (all two boxes of it) and moved to some back woods of some redneck state, that you would be paying taxes? You can’t be older than 5 or younger than 90. I say that because you have the mind of a child or one of someone with early onset. And lastly, as for incorporating Hitler into my daily dialogue, I tend not to. He murdered six million + of my people.
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 5:54pm
  Blue, don’t confuse volitional taxes with coerced taxes. Sales and excise taxes are volitional. Property and income taxes are not. The latter are theft through force.
  
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- BSdetector
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 6:01pm
  I must admit, your delusions are amusing, Bluehen.
  In a conversation about how much $$ is/was being wasted on pointless wars, you ask “did we just fly overhead and drop munitions?” No, we launched million dollar cruise missiles too. No proof of him starting wars? Do you not watch the news? It was under his direction that Libya was bombed by the UN! I guess the fact that he’s spent more in Afhghanistan in 4yrs than bush did in 8 is irrelevant? Not t
  
  suggestions that he deployed more US treasure to already existing ones, but nope, hasn’t actually started a new one. Jeezus dude, you’re pretty sad. Make a claim and nothing to support it. Not to mention all our boys he’s STILL sending to their deaths. Perpetuating war is just as terrible as starting it.
  
  YOUR people, huh? I’m sorry, I thought we were all just patriotic Americans here, but I guess you couldn’t help but show your true colors. It’s so easy to get you people to show your true colors. A little logic and your whole world falls apart, haha!
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 7:09pm
  bluehen
  Medicare? If you take 2.9% (going to 3.8%) f my income for a lifetime of course I am going to use Medicare. I would be broke without it. If the government does not use force to make me pay the 2.9%, then I can invest & spend it myself & do better.
  
  Same thing with Social Security only that tax bite is 7.65% on top of the cost of the employer employing you has to pay another 7.65%
  
  Then yopu pay Federal & state income taxes.
  
  Let’s make it easy for you. the f/cking nobles use to provide their peasants (read slaves) with Christmas dinner. So I guess the peasants got something back for all the taxes the nobles extracted. It would have been rude & hypocritical for a peasant to complain about the taxes while eating that dinner.
  
  It would have especially poor manners for said peasant to attend the dinner & to complain about having to pay the best livestock animal in his small holdings. I mean it is not like the peasant would want to keep his best animal. Why he might start a livestock breeding program & get cows that produce more milk & thus better his financial position.
  
  There is nothing new under the sun. DDSS.
  
  Bluehen is part of the castle staff & so considers himself superior. Or maybe he works in the plantation house & is getting uppity.
  
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bluehen
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 3:38pm
@V-MINDMELD

You can’t even use you’re (not your, you dullard) in the correct fashion, so I am just going to write off everything you say as the ranting of: a slow school aged child, or a retarded older person. And BTW, it is free if you can’t afford it (patient) and it is paid for by tax payers (me). As I said, I don’t mind paying a little more to help someone in need.

Commucrats, Pubes.. HAHA, your terminology is amusing. As for working, I work damn hard guy and not to mention just put myself through one of the top business schools so I can make more $$. You seem mad that I earn enough to no have to blink about giving away a few more percentage points to help someone who can’t help themselves.

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- macpappy
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 4:02pm
  Once again class:
  It’s not that liberals don’t know anything, it’s that so much of what they know is wrong. This troll is adolescent.
  
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- macpappy
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 4:07pm
  Lying POS. Anyone that finished “a top business school” would have named such school.
  Please, get off your moms computer and leave the adults alone.
  
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- bluehen
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 4:15pm
  @MACPAPPY
  
  My friend, if I were to name the school, you wouldn’t believe me. Lets just say the school is in NY and one surely you wouldn’t get into.. now just sit down and learn
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 9:58pm
  Blue-hen, name the school
  
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V-MindMeld
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 3:25pm
By the way, thats Mr. ED (the talking horse’s a$$) for a replacement reporter,,,,,

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V-MindMeld
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 3:22pm
Lets all just hope for the best, that they will send in Rachel Maddow and MR. Ed to take his place!!! yeah!!!!

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jackact
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 3:02pm
Probably being raped by a gang of 1st century Jihadist savages………who condem homosexuality in the ‘western world’.
:(

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- mapgirl10
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 3:11pm
  Dear God I am sad to say that was my first thought also.
  
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- biohazard23
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 3:11pm
  Yeah, they also like “dancing boys”. Go figure.
  
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ERRRR_UseYourHead
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 3:00pm
Media black out on this but yet they have no problem running interviews with six year olds who just survived the horrible tragedy in Newtown 24/7 on their channels. Kind makes you go hmmmmmm

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macpappy
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 2:38pm
Don’t worry, he is just being briefed by the extremist on what to say next week. He will take the talking points back to Obama.

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BSdetector
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 2:27pm
Another Communist, Anti-American, Freedom Hating, Regime Puppet is missing and possibly dead?

Que the worlds smallest violin…

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- BSdetector
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 2:47pm
  Actually I’m an ex-union electrician in NJ. I’ve seen the communist cr@p from the inside and it disgusts me.
  My best interests are suppressing the influence of “useful idiots” like you, thereby returning this country to constitutional rule and prosperity. I do not vote against that, but hey, keep guessing and maybe one day you’ll get 1% right.
  
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- Just_Us2
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 2:52pm
  Sorry Hen….this “reporter” is a paid liar who is probably on assignment there to show how peace loving muslims are and how evil Jooooooos are. If he did fall in to the hands of friendly muslims, and has not lost his head yet, I am sure he has suddenly converted from atheist to a believer in God…and probably needs some fresh underwear. Perhaps he is reflecting on a life dedicated to furthering lies, hate and propaganda. I have no sympathy for fools such as this. You play in traffic, don’t complain if a car flattens you.
- bluehen
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 2:58pm
  So, because he is a reporter for MSNBC (and a well respected one at that), he is a communist? Obviously with your level of intelligence you probably don’t know what a communist is, but I digress. As for the rest of your statement about restoring this country bla bla bla and suppressing my influence… haha, good look corky. Let us not forget which party smashed the other in the election, so if you want to continue with bated breath to suppress my influence, you only have approximately 69.3% of the country to go.. Ok, so you’re not country as so much as you are bridge and tunnel.. Gotcha. As for me, yup, I am a 1% elitist who doesn’t mind spending a little more in taxes to help people get free medical and psychological check-ups. I am sure one day you will need it and I can say that I helped someone out.
  
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- bluehen
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 3:00pm
  @JUST_US2
  
  Can you point to one instance of him lying? Good luck cake eater
  
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- Just_Us2
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 3:03pm
  Not necessarily a communist…but a liar and propagandist for sure. He is a traitor to the country.
  
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- DesertRose1960
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 3:05pm
  @Just_US2, Richard Engel is Jewish and he speaks Arabic. His father worked for Goldman Sacks. He became a reporter by working free-lance in Egypt, Israel, and Lebanon before coming to NBC. He is very familiar with the region having lived and worked there since the 1990s. He is a good reporter and a very bright and interesting man. Can’t say the same about you.
  
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- Just_Us2
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 3:09pm
  Oh Hen…ur right…he is pure and righteous and holy…and his employer tells nothing but truth….I wonder if they will report him being violently raped or just beheaded? I guess only the good die young.
  
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- bluehen
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 3:10pm
  @JUST_US2
  
  Still waiting for that example of him lying.. Now, go onto the internets, then to the google, and see if anything comes up about him actually lying about the countries that he visits to report. Let me know what you find out.
  
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- V-MindMeld
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 3:10pm
  LOL BluHen what a jerk you are…..take your 1% and stick it up your as$$ your a liberal socialist/comunist too,,,,,,and by the way there is no free” heath insurance,,,,,your soundng like obama now, a LIAR anyone who works for msnbc is an athiest or comunist,,,,,,,and is anti-constitution,,,,,,,sad
  
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- Just_Us2
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 3:14pm
  By now, all comments about this saint should be written in past tense.
  
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- BSdetector
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 3:14pm
  I labeled him a “communist” because he’s an MSM drone who supports totalitarian government control of our lives, yours included. I find it quite amusing when people like you pine for your own enslavement, by advocating for the government to take away MY rights.
  As far as elections, the Pubes deserve to be crushed as they are only slightly less totalitarian than the Commucrats.
  You are “a 1% elitist,” huh? Talk about voting against your best interests. Maybe if you had to WORK for that income, you’d be a little less keen to drop it in the toilet we call the government.
  
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- BSdetector
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 3:36pm
  Hey now The Blaze, let the man speak without deleted posts… At the very least, it makes ME look like I’m having a conversation with myself :/
  
  Not to mention that fact that his arguments are an embarassment to his own intelligence and easily destroyed…
  
  @bluehen
  If you “doesn’t mind spending a little more in taxes to help people get free…” then what’s stopping you? It’s VERY easy to pay extra money to the treasury at tax time especially.
  By the way, if you’re spending more money for it to happen, then it’s not free. If you’re forcing others to do so at gunpoint, then it’s just theft. Try not paying the taxes forced upon you by Washington, then tell me they are not taken at gunpoint.
  
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rockymtngal
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 2:25pm
Well, don’t ask Obama to help you out. He didn’t care about Stevens and he was an Embassador!

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MrKnowItAll
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 2:19pm
It’s perfectly fine for MSNBC to send Reporter’s on Suicide Missions. As Long as they don’t carry any Guns with them. If you are not ARMED. You are a Slave.

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lynda1276
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 2:18pm
i don’t mean to sound like a smartie pants because this is very serious- but why even go over there? Just stay here and make up stories like the rest of the media.

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- Twobyfour
  Posted on December 18, 2012 at 12:11am
  My vote for a snark of the day!
  
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spfoam1
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 2:17pm
Since when does NBC refrain from reporting anything THEY feel is newsworthy? The double standard is disgusting.If Engel has been kidnapped it is news, and the headline should be “Gators bite off the hand that feeds them”.

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oldwmn
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 2:17pm
this is the results of viewers who want up front instant coverage of the nightly news from around the world….its all about ratings NOT NEWS and there has not been a honest news cast sence WWII and that was a propaganda mill too As a army brat who grew up at Ft Bragg with posters saying Loose lips sink ships & gossip kills,,,it amazes me with CNN type media at the front lines like in Desert Storm with the enemy watching news cast live on tv..its INSANE ..I pray he is alright..and I blame the viewers and the news agencies for wanting that UP FRONT and Live coverage..of every breathing moment of a battle or a crisis.. DISGUSTING and shame on you all..YOU DEMAND this on your tv and the fool newscasters do it for RATINGS..a pox on you all

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- matamoros
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 3:24pm
  @ oldwmn “..YOU DEMAND this on your tv and the fool newscasters do it for RATINGS..a pox on you all”
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  sorry old, but we didn’t make such demands, and even if that were true, he is still responsible for his own actions. God Bless him and his loved ones; however, he chose to play in the traffic, as put by an earlier post.
  
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charliegirl4u
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 2:07pm
Well this doesn’t sound good. My thoughts and prayers are with his family. I am sorry, but my **** wouldn’t be over there to begin with. News or No News!!

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KidCharlemagne
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 2:03pm
Makes you wonder if Al-Qaeda might have kidnapped him….

For his sake, then I hope not.

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- The_Jerk
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 2:30pm
  Hey, Obama told me that we have al Qaeda on the run. Not possible.
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 3:57pm
  Hell no it isn’t possible, look at your posts Jihad Jerk. Front and center aiding and abetting. You are to jihad what mikey moore is to buffetarians. A slimy excuse to continue in the same vein, because you can. Oh, lalalalalalalala.
  
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ArmedAndReallyPissed
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 1:47pm
Don’t worry Richard. Everyone in the White House, Pentagon, CIA and FBI are watching you by live Drone feed right now. You’re safe. The CLOTUS will send in help right away for you. There’s no way the CLOTUS would just sit there and watch someone die.

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- Magyar
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 1:57pm
  Touche!
  
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- progressiveslayers
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 2:00pm
  Richard is after all a propagandist for the Marxist regime so you’d think they would want to protect him. Although with the regimes history in defending Americans……………….. Sorry Richard you’re toast.
  
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Carol in Indy
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 1:39pm
six,
you are s.i.c.k.

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Carol in Indy
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 1:38pm
I guess his children can hug his paycheck when they go to bed at night.

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RJJinGadsden
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 1:34pm
Very intelligent person, he speaks a number of the languages of that area. He has done some free lance work with ABC at the start of the second Gulf War and I have found that I often do not agree with his views. But, I do not wish him harm and hope that he is located safe and sound. Now, that being said, the fact that he was raised in a Jewish family should just tickle THE_JERK’s begonias.

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- The_Jerk
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 1:42pm
  No Jerk, the fact that he was raised in the posh upper east-side, by a Goldman Sachs financier, makes me pause. A Jew going into a war-torn Syria is like throwing an antelope into a hungry lions den.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 1:51pm
  THE_JERK, Then you mean merely that left leaning class warfare thing, right?
  
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- AbrahamsSheepdog
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 2:09pm
  Jerk you made me laugh. I was thinking more hyenas and a rabbit. God must love the idiots he let us make so many.
  
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thebiglefthander
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 1:34pm
So, when one of the MSM is in danger we should honor their requests not to “publish” or talk about it. Yet they will routinely publish confidential or top secret info, or photos, or stories (can you remember the Benghazi video story) that puts our troops and citizens in harms way. They can kiss my axe. I may get a Twitter account and tweet just to tick them off more.

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ArmedAndReallyPissed
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 1:31pm
REPORT : Man lays face on Hot Stove Burner. Gets 3rd degree Burns. Should this come as a surprise to anyone on this Planet ? I do hope he is well and safe, but don’t count on it.

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- mercenary4freedom
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 2:20pm
  Could obama admin funded cia-l-qaeda be behind this? ooops!
  
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gyro
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 1:26pm
It will be hard on his family
But this is what happens in manufactured wars

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- The_Jerk
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 1:33pm
  Absolutely. Play with fire and you lose the opportunity to complain when you get burned.
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 1:35pm
  And, what’s a Jew doing running around Syria in a time of war?
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 1:42pm
  Dang, I just knew that you would come through with that very sentiment.
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 1:45pm
  RJJinGadsden, see the above fool.
  
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- Cavallo
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 1:47pm
  @The Jerk, Probably the same thing as Daniel Pearl. Those Press Passes aren’t get out of Jihad Jail for Free Cards.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 1:53pm
  THE_JERK, Nothing foolish about it. I did see the above. I also knew who this guy was the moment I put eyes on the story. I’ve seen his reports on TV before as well as have read some. I believe I said more about him in my upper post first than the story said. It struck me right away that it would be you who would relish the fact that he is Jewish, and sure enough, you lived right down to your usual standards.
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 2:22pm
  RJJinGadsden,m your choice of the word ‘relish’ foolish. I never relish in stupidity. And, this act certainly qualifies.
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 2:35pm
  Engle was/is doing his job. Jihad Jerk’s job is to foment hate and dissent. Belligerent, wiki, hitler-ite, aryan wanna be, woman-hater, people of color hater, antisemitic pos hater. Still seem pretty slacking on the whole asian hate aspect. The MoBroHood thanks you for your efforts, but not quite up to par.
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 2:56pm
  Fubared, you’re living proof of the failure of public education.
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 3:53pm
  You surmise what isn’t so, much like the Jewish ghosts in your pantry. Oh, lalalalalalala.
  
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GeorgieJo
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 1:26pm
Sadly this story about a NBC reporter will get MORE COVERAGE than the murder of Chris Stevens and 3 other Americans in Libya on 9-11-12.
IT’S PATHETIC how there is NO LONGER any REAL NEWS COVERAGE.
Journalism is DEAD—Thanks to BHO.

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- Cavallo
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 1:48pm
  Was Journalism ever really alive? Or is the concept of the objective news reporter simply a lie we have been constantly force fed since the 40s?
  
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SIXFRIGATES
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 1:23pm
I find myself not caring. In fact, there have been many times in the last few months where I feel like rooting for Islamic extremists.

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- Just_Us2
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 3:00pm
  Apparently, Obama does not consider these people enemies…so it’s not like you are rooting against the country. I am sure his beheading will be coming out on Al Jezera soon. Perhaps as a “how to behead” video.
  
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- ArmedAndReallyPissed
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 3:55pm
  SIX : I highly recommend you watch the ENTIRE Daniel Pearl video, with the sound turned UP. Don’t turn your head away. Then we’ll see if you still feel the same about these Animals. Just make sure you have a large supply of sleeping pills and booze. Your going to need them just to be able to sleep for an hour or two a night for the first several weeks. Enjoy.
  
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- hatchetjob
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 4:42pm
  ARMEDANDREALLYPISSED, I love your comment!!!
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 9:57pm
  As much as I want Assad gone for all he done these past 12 years, right now does not seem the time. If 5,000 Al Qaeda are the spearhead of the 30,000 rebels & the other 25,000 can’t seem to do much what is the point. After the 5,000 defeat the much large Syrian Army what can the 25,000 other rebels do? Hold on for dear life but only with outside assistance?
  
  I don’t think Assad has him. I don’t think he would dare harm a journalist for fear of making him a cause celebre & giving Obama an excuse for war.
  
  Which pretty much leaves Al Qaeda/Al Nusrah or someone like that. Without U.S. support in terms of special forces (including the British SAS), Manpads, intel do not think the rebels would be holding as much ground as they are. Also if the U.S did nothing the Iranians & Russians might commit troops as more than just trainers & rear area security.
  
  For all that the Al Qaeda still has to f/ck with us, because they can;t help themselves. They need that instant gratification of hurting someone, anyone, from the U.S. even if they are a journalist.
  
  It could be that he found a story they did not want covered. But I think they what have messed with him even if he had found nothing.
  
  Love might be the way. But if they don’t love you or respect you, they must fear you. Al Qaeda does not fear us.
  
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