Friday, April 11, 2003
Kevin Sites, Warblogger and CNN reporter, captured (then released) in Iraq
Kevin Sites, CNN correspondent and blogger was captured by Iraqi Fedayeen soldiers and held at gunpoint today along with other CNN crewmembers. Thankfully, all were released. During the ordeal, which Sites says lasted about four hours, he and colleagues were told repeatedly that they would be killed. Their captors fired guns at them, destroyed equipment, and repeatedly told the CNN crew that they were about to be executed. Thanks to the quick thinking of their Kurdistani translator, he reported on CNN today, they were all eventually released.
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