http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/22/world/africa/22times.html?_r=1
The four had been covering fighting near Ajdabiya when they decided that the battle had grown too dangerous for them to continue covering it safely. Their driver, however, inadvertently drove into a checkpoint manned by forces loyal to Colonel Qaddafi. By the time they knew they were in trouble, it was too late.
“I was yelling to the driver, ‘Keep driving! Don’t stop! Don’t stop!’ ” Mr. Hicks recalled in a telephone interview from the hotel where he and the three others were recuperating. “I knew that the consequences of being stopped would be very bad.”
The driver, Mohamed Shaglouf, is still missing. If he had tried to drive straight through, Mr. Hicks said, the vehicle certainly would have been fired on. In any event, the soldiers flung the doors to their gold four-door sedan wide open so quickly that they had little chance to get away.
Fantastic they made it out. Let's hope their driver is OK as well.
great news. What a relief for their friends & families.
ReplyDeleteThis is fantastic news but Getty Images photographer Joe Raedle and AFP photographer Roberto Schmidt along with an AFP reporter are now missing and have not been heard from for days. Keep them in your thoughts.
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^Thank you, we will. Hope they make it home safe as well.
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