Four Journalists Live to Tell

Lynsey Addario, Anthony Shadid, Stephen Farrel and Tyler Hicks are four journalists who were captured by soldiers in Libya. It is a miracle that they are alive today to tell their story of being held hostage. The four journalists left with a driver from Egypt across the Libyan border without visas. As they approached Benghazi, they encountered Libyan soldiers who forced them out of the car. They tried to make a run for it but the soldiers caught up to them while they hid behind a one room house. This gripping article composed by them explains their experience while being held hostage. 

"At that moment, though, none of us thought we were going to live. Steve tried to keep eye contact until they pulled the trigger. The rest of us felt the powerlessness of resignation. You feel empty when you know that it’s almost over.

“Shoot them,” a tall soldier said calmly in Arabic.

A colleague next to him shook his head. “You can’t,” he insisted. “They’re Americans.”

They bound our hands and legs instead — with wire, fabric or cable. Lynsey was carried to a Toyota pickup, where she was punched in the face. Steve and Tyler were hit, and Anthony was headbutted."

It is incredible to imagine the amount of danger these journalists subject themselves to get their story. We should appreciate them for their willingness to risk their lives in order to give us the facts. 
After the journalists were caught they noticed a body lying on the ground behind the car. They couldn't tell exactly who it was but they were pretty sure that it was their driver.

"We still don’t know whether that was Mohammed. We fear it was, though his body has yet to be found.

If he died, we will have to bear the burden for the rest of our lives that an innocent man died because of us, because of wrong choices that we made, for an article that was never worth dying for.

No article is, but we were too blind to admit that."