Kidnapped on the Road to Allepo

To finish off our coverage of this story, we bring you the story of how two American journalists, Holli Chmela and Taylo Luck, ended up in a Syrian prison, as recounted by them to their employer - the Jordan Times - as published in NOWLebanon: “We had planned to take a bus from Tripoli to Homs, but the bus station was closed and a taxi driver offered to take us across the border, saying he was licensed to make such trips,” they told the daily. “He took us with another driver and on the way went off the main road,” Luck told the English language-daily where he had been working. “I asked him where the border was but he did not answer. As he continued driving, he locked the car doors and asked us to hand over our money, but we refused to give him anything. At that moment, a military car showed up and pulled him over and without... [read full story]