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(7,252 posts) Tue Dec 18, 2012, 07:22 PM Dec 2012

Richard Engel and NBC News team freed from captors in Syria

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Source: NBC.com

Updated at 8:15 a.m. ET: NBC News’ Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel and members of his network production team were freed from captors in Syria after a firefight at a checkpoint on Monday, five days after they were taken prisoner, NBC News said early Tuesday.

“After being kidnapped and held for five days inside Syria by an unknown group, NBC News Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel and his production crew members have been freed unharmed. We are pleased to report they are safely out of the country,” the network said in a statement.

“It is good to be here,” Engel said during a live appearance on TODAY from Turkey. “I’m very happy that we’re able to do this live shot this morning.”

Engel said that they were traveling with Syrian rebels when a group of about 15 gunmen “jumped out of the trees and bushes” and captured them.

Read more: http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/12/18/15985279-richard-engel-and-nbc-news-team-freed-from-captors-in-syria?lite

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Richard Engel and NBC News team freed from captors in Syria (Original Post) SCRUBDASHRUB Dec 2012 OP

You have to be nuts to do what he does. MrSlayer Dec 2012 #1

He lives for it though iandhr Dec 2012 #2

glad heaven05 Dec 2012 #3

I have always been afraid that something like this would happen to him. Glimmer of Hope Dec 2012 #4

That guy and his crew of some STONES underpants Dec 2012 #5

Good ending to this story. Thanks. freshwest Dec 2012 #6

Good news! dixiegrrrrl Dec 2012 #7

Locking, sorry. LBN Dupe. Please continue discussion on LBN link below Tx4obama Dec 2012 #8

MrSlayer

(22,143 posts)

1. You have to be nuts to do what he does.

Reply to SCRUBDASHRUB (Original post)

Tue Dec 18, 2012, 07:26 PM

Dec 2012

Glad they're safe.

iandhr

(6,852 posts)

2. He lives for it though

Reply to MrSlayer (Reply #1)

Tue Dec 18, 2012, 07:27 PM

Dec 2012

I am also happy for their safe return.

heaven05

(18,124 posts)

3. glad

Reply to SCRUBDASHRUB (Original post)

Tue Dec 18, 2012, 07:30 PM

Dec 2012

he made it.

Glimmer of Hope

(5,823 posts)

4. I have always been afraid that something like this would happen to him.

Reply to SCRUBDASHRUB (Original post)

Tue Dec 18, 2012, 08:06 PM

Dec 2012

So glad he is ok!

underpants

(182,766 posts)

5. That guy and his crew of some STONES

Reply to SCRUBDASHRUB (Original post)

Tue Dec 18, 2012, 08:13 PM

Dec 2012

Wow. It has cost him his marriage but he lives in a dangerous world and went there completely on his own to start with.

He makes 99% of the other "reporters" look like what they are - used car salesmen and women.

freshwest

(53,661 posts)

6. Good ending to this story. Thanks.

Reply to SCRUBDASHRUB (Original post)

Tue Dec 18, 2012, 09:05 PM

Dec 2012

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)

7. Good news!

Reply to SCRUBDASHRUB (Original post)

Tue Dec 18, 2012, 10:10 PM

Dec 2012

Happy to rec.

Btw..Chris Hedges said that one of the reasons he has stopped ( for now at least) covering wars around the globe is he has PTSD from
being shot at, being captured by various sides, and all the horrors of war he saw everywhere he looked.

Tx4obama

(36,974 posts)

8. Locking, sorry. LBN Dupe. Please continue discussion on LBN link below

Reply to SCRUBDASHRUB (Original post)

Tue Dec 18, 2012, 10:23 PM

Dec 2012

News of them being freed already in LBN...

Here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014341020

And here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014341193