{"id":3595,"date":"2008-10-09T11:00:06","date_gmt":"2008-10-09T16:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=3595"},"modified":"2011-06-06T15:38:05","modified_gmt":"2011-06-06T19:38:05","slug":"2-us-journalists-in-syrian-custody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/2-us-journalists-in-syrian-custody\/","title":{"rendered":"2 U.S. Journalists in Syrian Custody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/10\/10\/world\/middleeast\/10lebanon.html?hp\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The New York Times<\/em> reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Two young American journalists missing in Lebanon for more than a week were in Syrian custody on Thursday, according to a report on the Web site of the state news agency, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sana.sy\/eng\/21\/2008\/10\/09\/195835.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Sana<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The two, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobalist.com\/DBWeb\/AuthorBiography.aspx?AuthorId=1017\" target=\"_blank\">Holli Chmela<\/a>, 27, and Taylor Luck, 23, had not been heard from since Oct. 1. The Sana report said that the two were detained Thursday morning for crossing the border \u0432\u0402\u045aillegally with the help of a smuggler,\u0432\u0402\u045c and that they were being questioned. The two were to be handed over to the United States Embassy in Damascus \u0432\u0402\u045aafter the conclusion of the necessary procedures,\u0432\u0402\u045c the report said.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Chmela and Mr. Luck had been working at The Jordan Times in Amman, Jordan. They arrived in Lebanon on Sept. 29, and told friends they were heading to Byblos and the northern city of Tripoli en route to Syria.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Chmela, who grew up in Massachusetts, was studying Arabic and working as an intern at The Jordan Times, said her mother, Amy Chmela. She had previously worked as a news assistant in the Washington bureau of The New York Times. Mr. Luck, who is from the Chicago area, is a reporter at The Jordan Times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times reports: Two young American journalists missing in Lebanon for more than a week were in Syrian custody on Thursday, according to a report on the Web site of the state news agency, Sana. The two, Holli Chmela, 27, and Taylor Luck, 23, had not been heard from since Oct. 1. The &#8230; <a title=\"2 U.S. Journalists in Syrian Custody\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/2-us-journalists-in-syrian-custody\/\" aria-label=\"More on 2 U.S. Journalists in Syrian Custody\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36,52,383,117,385,384],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3595"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}