Lost and Found: NYT Journalists Missing in Libya Will Be Released by Gadhafi
- Posted on March 18, 2011 at 10:09am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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NEW YORK (AP) — Four New York Times journalists who were reported missing while covering the Libya conflict have been found, the newspaper said Friday.
The Times reported on its website that the four were captured by forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi and will be released Friday.
The Times said his son, Seif al-Islam Gadhafi, gave the information to Christiane Amanpour in an ABC News interview.
Libyan government officials told the United States State Department on Thursday evening that all four would be released.
They had last been in contact with editors on Tuesday from the northern port city of Ajdabiya where they were covering the retreat of rebels.
The journalists are Anthony Shadid, The Times’s Beirut bureau chief and a two-time Pulitzer-prize winning foreign correspondent; two photographers, Tyler Hicks and Lynsey Addario, who have extensive experience in war zones; and a reporter and videographer, Stephen Farrell, who in 2009 was captured by the Taliban in Afghanistan and was rescued by British commandos.
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Posted on March 18, 2011 at 10:27pmThey may be Americans, but I no longer feel they are my countrymen if they work for that socialist propaganda ministry. The NYT has committed real, quantifiable, treason and should face real, quantifiable, consequences.
If we ever finally rise up and take this country back, we must leave a very clear message to those would betray us. Harsh examples are not soon forgotten.
And we MUST act together as one. Numbers and timing are everything. Sporadic individual actions will be stopped quickly. Great numbers will not.
We must rise up while we still live! The memory of Liberty may die with us. Let it be on the battlefield, not in some overcrowded emergency room.
Report Post »hempstead1944
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 5:50pmnot the sort they wanted in their country either……..
Report Post »Dave In Arizona
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 2:38pmWhy release them? Great start for a new newspaper: Tipoli Times.
Report Post »drattastic
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 1:15pmGadhafi realized he had captured four of his allies. Progressive/socialist love tyrants and tyrants love progressive/socialist same ultimate agenda.
Report Post »JoeA1010
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 1:44pmExactly. They are there to discredit the United States, or at least the country, if not Obama. I hope he keeps them, they would probably be more at home there.
Report Post »temple62
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 1:10pmLibya wins another victory over free enterprise, capitalism and democracy! They thinned out a few dissenters while the heads of England, France and Uniter States “made the usual threats” but once again, they picked their NCAA tournament champs and were at a loss as to what to do – what a way to fight a war! So congratulations Gaddafi, return to your throne! You pulled off the Lockerbie bombing, survived Reagan tent targeted bomb and now you’ll be free to conduct trade with the United States of America. Alhamdulillah!
Report Post »drattastic
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 1:18pmWe are now as toothless as our European allies.No need to fear or respect the US anymore with a limp wristed socialist in the White House .
Report Post »ed0315
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 12:13pm“Lost and found: NYT journalists missing in libya will be released by gadhafi”………………..Darn!
Report Post »dcwu
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 11:45amNYT credentials = get out of jail free card with U.S. haters.
Now what does that tell you?
Report Post »jim
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 11:45amYes, please, Libya, keep them.
Report Post »BoilitDown
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 11:44amGadhafi will do only enough to placate the international community so as to soften the opposition to his murderous assertion of power over Libya. I don’t believe for a minute that he intends to stop killing the citizens of his country. This does not seem to matter to Russia and China, who fairly say that Bahrain should receive the same treatment as Libya.
Report Post »All of the escalation in unrest across the Middle East could have been handled so much better had it not been for the tepid tinkering of our illustrious “leader”.
One thing that will definitely add to boldness of the dictators in the Middle East is the press in Europe who have decided now is the time to emphasize how weak Obama is as a leader. It’s unfortunate that the media in Europe were so eager to support Obama before his election without investigating him first.
Cdmfl
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 11:29amDon’t send them back! Keep them!!
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 11:20amI was watching the interview of Quakdafi on Nightline last night. He should have asked what would US do if the Tea Party tried to rise up against the US Government. No way am I justifying his position but what would our Government do if this uprising occurred from any group within the US saying it was for freedom and democratic principals? I think it would act much like what we are seeing in Libya and other places. They are prepared for it and have been preparing for it for a few years now. We are no different then these people, when push comes to shove our Government will act against its citizens declaring that they have the law on their side. When are people going to wake up? This is not your grandfathers USA any longer. Beck is right to point out the lies of this US Government and how it is being twisted from the inside out by radicals who are the enemies of the US constitution and our founding principals of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Report Post »temple62
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 10:54amNow I get it, thanks to the NYT reporters being “held in Libya” a No-Fly zone is declared. Ain’t politics a wonderful waste of time and money. Nuke em!
Report Post »walkwithme1966
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 10:50amGlad these reporters are being released – but I won’t believe it until I see them free. Interesting how things turn around in Libya with just the threat of the UN taking some sort of action. http://wp.me/pYLB7-KJ
Report Post »shadowrider
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 10:39amKeep ‘Em …. We don’t really need them back!
They’ll make better reporters for you anyway !
Report Post »dawg of gawd
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 10:55amAt least they had the balls to go.
Report Post »ProgressiveLiberalMarine
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 11:06amZing
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 11:42amI guess you two spent a lot of time in Libya yourselves, right?
Report Post »1chancey1
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 12:29pmBalls? Stupid is more like it.
Report Post »PavZilla
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 10:22amInteresting timing … they held them until after the UN made a decision. Will they really be freed or are they now 4 bartering chips?
Report Post »Nobamazone
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 1:14pmexactly what I was thinking, stay tuned for the second act…
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 10:21amNot so quick Moamar, can’t we talk about this?
Report Post »trolltrainer
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 10:24amIf you keep them we will drop the no-fly thing, pay 3 times as much for your oil and even release 1,000 Libyan prisoners in this country!
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 10:29amAnd..we’ll hand over Geraldo Rivera, deal?
Report Post »quarter horseman
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 10:18amIts a good thing, because Barry aka(BHO) wouldnt do anything to free them.
Report Post »trolltrainer
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 10:17amnever thought I would feel joy that 4 liberals are alive…
Glad they are safe.
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 10:16amNYT JOURNALISTS
An Oxymoron on steroids. Giving a Pulitzer Prize to a liberal Journalist???, is like giving a Nobel Peace Prize to Barry ( for nothing)
Report Post »dawg of gawd
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 10:54amLike giving the Congressional Medal of Freedom to George Tenet.
Report Post »poverty.sucks
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 11:24amSoliciting medal of Courageous Restraint to newly active duty military personnel.
Report Post »notofdasleeple
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 12:58pmumm Maybe like giving a Humanitarian Award to Gadhafi?
Report Post »ProgressiveLiberalMarine
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 10:16amStephen Farrell apparently doesn’t have very good luck.
Report Post »Dale
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 11:04amOn the contrary, he is VERY lucky.
Report Post »ProgressiveLiberalMarine
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 11:06amHe wouldn’t need rescuing if he was never caught in the first place.
Report Post »poverty.sucks
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 11:09amAre implying that if you stick your finger in a mouse trap and your finger gets caught means you have bad luck?
Placing yourself in the face of known and present danger is a choice. The fact that they are well, could very well be observed as good luck.
Report Post »LOOKING_BOTH_WAYS
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 10:14amthis is a good Friday
Report Post »LOOKING_BOTH_WAYS
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 10:21amWell a Good Friday for these journalists anyway .. not so much for others i bet
Report Post »notofdasleeple
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 12:56pmIt would be a better Friday if he kept them! 4 less NYT journalists in the USA! P.S. THIS IS A SARCASTIC JOKE! I hope they are home safe and sound soon! Back to spreading your rhetoric NYT!
Report Post »nptden
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 4:01pmI’m surprised. Thought maybe they would become ‘Martyrs of the People’s Revolution’…They forgot to never waste a ‘crisis’.
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 5:32pmInteresting how an illegal act like this is hardly mentioned with in that context.
Report Post »Thatsitivehadenough
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 8:19pmToo bad.
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