03-16-2011, 02:19 PM
not pirates this time. Jesus, my first thought was Daniel Pearl. :(
CNN
Four journalists for The New York Times are missing in Libya, the newspaper said Wednesday on its website.
The Times said the missing journalists are Anthony Shadid, the paper's Beirut bureau chief and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner; 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.
"We have talked with officials of the Libyan government in Tripoli, and they tell us they are attempting to ascertain the whereabouts of our journalists," executive editor Bill Keller said. "We are grateful to the Libyan government for their assurance that if our journalists were captured they would be released promptly and unharmed."
The paper identified the journalists as Anthony Shadid, its bureau chief in Beirut, Lebanon, and two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for foreign reporting; Stephen Farrell, a reporter and videographer who was kidnapped by the Taliban and rescued by British commandos in 2009; and Tyler Hicks and Lynsey Addario, photographers who have covered the Middle East and Africa.
"Their families and their colleagues at The Times are anxiously seeking information about their situation, and praying that they are safe," Keller said.
Libyan government forces told CNN Wednesday they have no information about where the journalists may be and said that, if they were picked up by the Libyan military, they would be returned to Tripoli.
Shadid was shot in the shoulder by the Israeli Army in Ramallah in the spring of 2002.
Farrell routinely reports from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq. Before joining The New York Times in 2007, he worked for the Times of London. In April 2004, he was kidnapped on assignment in Falluja, Iraq.
Hicks, a staffer for the paper, is based in Istanbul and has served as an embed in Afghanistan.
CNN
Four journalists for The New York Times are missing in Libya, the newspaper said Wednesday on its website.
The Times said the missing journalists are Anthony Shadid, the paper's Beirut bureau chief and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner; 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.
"We have talked with officials of the Libyan government in Tripoli, and they tell us they are attempting to ascertain the whereabouts of our journalists," executive editor Bill Keller said. "We are grateful to the Libyan government for their assurance that if our journalists were captured they would be released promptly and unharmed."
The paper identified the journalists as Anthony Shadid, its bureau chief in Beirut, Lebanon, and two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for foreign reporting; Stephen Farrell, a reporter and videographer who was kidnapped by the Taliban and rescued by British commandos in 2009; and Tyler Hicks and Lynsey Addario, photographers who have covered the Middle East and Africa.
"Their families and their colleagues at The Times are anxiously seeking information about their situation, and praying that they are safe," Keller said.
Libyan government forces told CNN Wednesday they have no information about where the journalists may be and said that, if they were picked up by the Libyan military, they would be returned to Tripoli.
Shadid was shot in the shoulder by the Israeli Army in Ramallah in the spring of 2002.
Farrell routinely reports from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq. Before joining The New York Times in 2007, he worked for the Times of London. In April 2004, he was kidnapped on assignment in Falluja, Iraq.
Hicks, a staffer for the paper, is based in Istanbul and has served as an embed in Afghanistan.