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[center][size=x-large][color=#CC0000][b]Missing Americans Kidnapped by Syrian Regime[/b][/color][/size][/center]
[b]October 9[/b], 2008 //RPS News// – The Al-Jazeera TV station confirmed today that the two missing American journalists who were last seen in Beirut and heading north to Tripoli are in fact in Syria.
The journalists, Holli Chmela, 27, and Taylor Luck, 23, arrived in Lebanon from Jordan on Sept. 29 and disappeared on October 1. Only after news of their disappearance were announced, one week later, did the Syrian authorities inform the US Embassy in Damascus that the two journalists have been “detained“ making their detention a kidnapping.
“They were detained in Syria after entering the country illegally“, Al-Jazeera claimed. More likely voicing the Assad's regime spin to excuse kidnapping foreign citizens.
US citizens are required to obtain a Syrian visa to enter the country and more likely the two journalists, having lived in Jordan prior to their attempt to visit Syria, must have been quite aware of these rules ahead of time, especially in light of their profession.
The US Embassy in Damascus has not warned American citizens against entering Syria but the US Embassy in Lebanon has warned Americans against extremist elements in Lebanon; it is apparent, because of this incident of kidnapping, that the US should worry as much about US citizens visiting Syria as it should about extremists in Lebanon.
Al-Jazeera, owned by the Qatari ruling family, has close relations with the Assad regime.
RPS Staff @ October 9, 2008
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