Well, he's dead......

[PI Nate]

Is he a Jew?

[FlaFlaFlunkie]

[Turtle Man]

REPORT: NBC REPORTER RICHARD ENGEL MISSING IN SYRIA






Let's hope and pray this is a false alarm:

A Turkish reporter working for the NBC TV news network is said to have been missing in Syria since Wednesday, Turkish media reported on Monday.
Turkey’s NTV news channel reported that Turkish correspondent for NBC, Aziz Akyavas, went missing in Syria and has not been reached for four days.
Along with Akyavas, NBC is unable to reach its Middle East bureau chief Richard Engel, who was also reporting from inside Syria.

idiot

[Murphy]

idiot

no u

[puggysgal]

he's alive!

[AmishGirl]

This guy had balls of steel. I remember seeing a Charlie Rose interview with him a couple years back and he said his wife left him over his assignments in the Middle East. He loved it so fucking much he couldn't accept her ultimatum to return and do reports from a studio. He had to be in the thick of it.

Well, I'd leave too - some bitch telling me NOT to do my work, f-u-bitch ...

[itpdude]

Well, I'd leave too - some bitch telling me NOT to do my work, f-u-bitch ...

I think some spouses aren't cut out for the stuff. I can see a wife not liking her husband going into highly volatile areas.

It's like when I got married. I had to give up selling crack on the street-corner. Apparently my wife thought it too dangerous for her white husband to be hustling for dem Benjamins like a Negro.

It's all about compromise.

*it should go without saying, the above reference to me dealing crack is a joke.

It was selling nuclear weapons. She didn't like it.

[You Knew!]

He and his crew have been released.

[Winst]

He and his crew have been released.

Ransom paid and delivered. (...but they will never admit to that..in public.)

...move long..move along....nothing more here to see and/or say.

[Winst]

Is he a Jew?

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Engel#Early_years
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Early years

Engel grew up in a Jewish family on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City. He has an older brother who is a cardiologist.^[3][4] His father, a former Goldman Sachs financier, and mother Nina, who ran an antiques store, feared for their son's future prospects because of his dyslexia.^[5] Engel attended the Riverdale Country School and Stanford University, graduating in 1996 with a B.A. in International Relations.^[6]

[shitba]

""They were talking openly about their loyalty to the government," Engel said. He said the captors were trained by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and allied with Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shiite militant group, but he did not elaborate."

Seems legit.

[Dainty Jainty]

My uncle helped rescue kidnapped American Thomas Hamill in 2004 in Iraq.

One story here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1128202/posts

I'm so glad this guy escaped certain death!!! I was kind of hoping some American troops rescued him but we'll take what we can get!

[BrerJimmy]

Praise allah!

[Wangold]

he's alive!

[922Wine]

Ransom paid and delivered. (...but they will never admit to that..in public.)

...move long..move along....nothing more here to see and/or say.

Supposedly no ransom.

They're claiming that the ones who kidnapped Engel/crew ran into trouble with another group that ambushed them and during the ensuing chaos, Engel/crew ran for it.

Don't know if it's true, but then, anything he would've claimed is liable to be met with cynicism.

[joyceface]

a nice bit of news for a change. Glad to hear he and the others are ok.

[sfsn kali]

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/19/bu...WDU7t0hbIcS8eQ