Wired:
When Americans encounter jihadi groups in warzones, it can often mean captivity or even execution. Except in Syria, where they just rescued NBC News’ chief foreign correspondent from a days-long ordeal.
Six days ago, Richard Engel and his production team were captured while traveling in northwest Syria with a rebel group when they were taken captive by forces loyal to dictator Bashar Assad. One of the rebels was killed on sight by the 15 loyalist gunmen, and the American crew was subject to death threats and what Engel described as “psychological torture.” But the loyalist plan was to orchestrate an exchange of prisoners with the rebels. Until they ran into a leading Syrian jihadist group.
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Ah…a koranimal PR campaign.
They still need the useful idiots of NBC, so it was a good idea to rescue them from their more, ahem, excitable colleagues…
the click to continue is not working for me!!
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I don’t understand this. Why would they do this?
I think it will be a long time before we know the truth of this.