UPDATED: Richard Engel and NBC News team freed from captors in Syria

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NBC News’ Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel and members of his network production team were freed from captors in Syria after a firefight at a checkpoint on Monday, five days after they were taken prisoner, NBC News said early Tuesday

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[kitanabychoice]

Wow. Scary.

[fickery]

Has anyone else heard about this?

I follow a lot of journalists on Twitter and a number of them mentioned it earlier today, but I don't know anything beyond what you've posted. I hope he's okay--I really like his reporting.

Side-eying Gawker for not respecting the request for a news blackout.

[fickery]

Posting again to add that our local FOX affiliate had brief (10 - 15 seconds) coverage of it on the 11:00 PM news as well.

[veracity]

Seriously. It's more important to be the first...rather to think, maybe just maybe, there's a reason for the blackout?? To universe 324 with them. There's where all the people I find questionable exist. Getting pretty full now.

[serendipity_15]

I follow a couple journalists, including Richard Engel, on twitter but I haven't really been on twitter much today so I didn't notice. I read his book, War Journal, and ever since then I've worried that something would happen to him.

[layweed]

Idk, I'm a little torn between "yeah it's another one of those gotta scoop the scoop" incidents and "responsible journalism", but I really feel like it's the former. Regardless, I hope Richard Engel and his Turkish counterpart are safe and sound.

[grace_om]

Oh no. I hope he's okay. He's a great journalist.