Taking Risks To Bring You The Story


	Taking Risks To Bring You The Story

Carl Lavin

4-14-2008 9:31 AM

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Carl Lavin says:

Iraq has been deadly for journalists from many nations, but this is one story with a happier ending. Kidnapped in February, this CBS journalist was freed today when Iraqi troops stormed the house where he was help captive.

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4-14-2008 11:16 AM

Antara

Lucky Man!!!

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Richard Butler, who works for the US television network CBS, was found in a house in Basra with a sack over his head, said the Iraqi defence ministry.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7346487.stm"><P> "Thank you and I'm looking forward to seeing my family and my friends at CBS - and thank you again.
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"The Iraqi army stormed the house and overcame my guards and they burst through the door - and I had my hood on, which I had to have on all the time.
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"They shouted something at me and I pulled my hood off...and they ran me down the road."</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7346487.stm">Mr Butler and his interpreter were taken from the Sultan Palace Hotel in Basra, southern Iraq, by at least eight gunmen on 10 February.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7346487.stm">
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