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BEIRUT: Three foreign
journalists wounded in Syria have not yet been taken to the Lebanese
border, the head of Lebanon’s Higher Relief Committee Ibrahim Bashir said
Thursday.
Bashir told The Daily Star
Thursday evening that it had not been possible “to take them from areas
where there is fighting.”
A security source said that
British and French authorities are in contact with the Lebanese Red Cross
to facilitate their transfer from Syria to Lebanon. The source confirmed
that the journalists were still in Syria, and identified them as French
nationals William Daniels and Edith Bouvier, and British national Paul
Conroy.
According to activists, they
were wounded in an attack on a house in Homs, after sneaking over the
Lebanese border into Syria.
Two Western journalists – French
photographer Remi Ochlik and American Marie Colvin of Britain’s Sunday
Times – were killed in that attack. Bashir said the body of “an American
woman” who died has also not been taken to the border. He did not identify
Colvin by name.
Homs, which is some of 30
kilometers from Lebanon, has been under siege for nearly three weeks.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy
Wednesday described the killing of Ochlik and Colvin as an assassination
and said the era of Syrian President Bashar Assad had to end.
“This regime must go and there
is no reason that Syrians don’t have the right to live their lives and
choose their destiny freely. If journalists were not there, the massacres
would be a lot worse,” he said.
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