Salon.com > Richard Engel freed http://www.salon.com Fri, 24 May 2013 01:55:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Richard Engel talks being held captive in Syria http://www.salon.com/2012/12/18/richard_engel_talks_being_held_captive_in_syria/ http://www.salon.com/2012/12/18/richard_engel_talks_being_held_captive_in_syria/#comments Tue, 18 Dec 2012 13:57:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13148454 On the Today Show, NBC News’ Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel described the "traumatizing" experience of being held captive in Syria for five days, now that he and his news production team have been freed unharmed.

“It is good to be here,” Engel said, broadcasting from Turkey. “I’m very happy that we’re able to do this live shot this morning.”

"We weren't physically beaten or tortured. It was a lot of psychological torture, threats of being killed," Engel continued. "They made us choose which one of us would be shot first and when we refused there were mock shootings. They pretended to shoot [NBC producer Ghazi Balkiz] several times."

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2012/12/18/richard_engel_talks_being_held_captive_in_syria/feed/ 1 NBC’s Richard Engel freed in Syria http://www.salon.com/2012/12/18/nbcs_richard_engel_freed_in_syria/ http://www.salon.com/2012/12/18/nbcs_richard_engel_freed_in_syria/#comments Tue, 18 Dec 2012 12:01:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13148407 NBC News reports this morning that Richard Engel and his crew have been freed by their Syrian abductors.

In a statement, the network announced: “After being kidnapped and held for five days inside Syria by an unknown group, NBC News Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel and his production crew members have been freed unharmed. We are pleased to report they are safely out of the country.

Engel and his crew are live on the "Today" show now; we will update with more details.

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