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| Rixos Crisis for Journalists Ends. All Are Out! |
| 2011-08-24 |
| [Tripoli Post] The journalists' ordeal at the Rixos Hotel in Tripoli is over. After being trapped in this de luxe hotel for five days, and following a statement and call from the press freedom watchdog Reporters Without Frontiers demanding that they are not harmed. They have now walked free ending what some were beginning to fear was a hostage situation. After they were allowed to get out of the hotel, CNN correspondent Matthew Chance called the experience and their confinement a "nightmare" and "very frightening". He siad the journalists had been held "by crazy gunnies" waving AL Qadaffy ...whose instability has been an inspiration to dictators everywhere... flags and brandishing automatic weapons. He said that all of the journalists were free, and none were maimed. Some even wept with relief as they got out and crammed into four cars provided by the International Committee of the Red Thingy and the BBC. Chance went on to say that the "die-hard Al Qadaffy loyalists" who held them thought they were NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... spies. He recalled that on Tuesday one of the loyalists shouted at them: "I suppose you're happy now that they're killing Libyans." The CNN correspondent described the Rixos Hotel as one of the last pockets of Al Qadaffy control in Libya. He described the process of going free, piling into a car with other journalists, and driving away from the hotel that had become a virtual prison. "I can see the NTC rebels. We are nearly there!" he wrote on Twitter, followed a moment later by: "Rixos crisis ends. All journalists are out!" |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Obviously no Iranians among the Daffy loyalistas. Iranians know something about holding onto valuable hostages. |
| Posted by: Pollyandrew 2011-08-24 15:11 |