The Four New York Times Journalists Captured in Libya Have Been Released
Six days after being captured in Libya, the four missing New York Times journalists have been released. The journalists — Lynsey Addario, Anthony Shadid, Stephen Farrell, and Tyler Hicks — were released into the custody of Turkish diplomats Monday morning.
The first piece of good news surrounding the missing journalists came on March 17, when Saif Qaddafi told Christiane Amanpour on Nightline that the four journalists would be freed.
News of the actual release broke Monday morning over (how else?) Twitter, when Namik Tan, Turkey’s ambassador to the United States, tweeted
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