11/9/2022 0 Comments The hostage![]() ![]() Abdelrazaq wanted to show us his prize: four Iranian and two Lebanese fighters his men had captured. We divided our gear and the team between Taher’s minivan and Abdelrazaq’s car and set out. THE HOSTAGE DRIVERAbdelrazaq negotiated a price with a driver named Taher. THE HOSTAGE DRIVERSThere were always a lot freelance drivers lingering for business at Bab al-Hawa. I have never liked big teams, but this was going to be an easy trip. We were traveling light for television reporters, but we still had computers and batteries and cameras and tapes and flak jackets and medical kits. The border crossing at Bab al-Hawa is the umbilical cord to the revolution.Ībdelrazaq told us there wasn’t enough room in his car for all our bags and all of us. Guns and money and walkie-talkies and spies go one way across the two miles of no-man’s-land separating Syria from Turkey the wounded and refugees go the other. It has to be carried in from Turkey, along with just about everything else. The rebels have used so much fertilizer that it is hard to find in Syria. The rebels mix fertilizer with sugar and pack it into propane tanks to make bombs that can knock the tracks off a Syrian tank or tear up government patrols. ![]() Men shouldered 50-pound sacks of fertilizer. Boys scurried about, looking to carry luggage for tips. I was on assignment for NBC News, and my team and I were on the Syrian side of the Bab al-Hawa border crossing, one of the main access points between Syria and Turkey.Ībdelrazaq lifted our bags into his car. We’d gotten lost on the way, but didn’t tell him that. He smoked a cigarette and didn’t let on if he was annoyed that we were an hour late. His name was Abdelrazaq, and he was clean-shaven and had bright eyes that made him look intelligent. The commander was waiting for us by the side of the road, just as he had promised. Last December, a quick trip into Syria turned deadly, NBC News’s RICHARD ENGEL recalls, when his team of six was kidnapped by the vicious, pro-government shabiha militia and toyed with by a sadistic captor as they fought against their panic-and for their lives The episode closes with Lisa Colbert having been killed in an air raid whilst visiting St Nazaire.It’s every war correspondent’s nightmare: dragged from the car by men with AK-47s bound, gagged, and blindfolded fearing torture or execution at any moment. Albert and Dr Keldermans arrange for a dead body to be handed over to the Germans, via the Belgian police, as the supposed killer, after which the hostages are released and the Brigadier returned to Britain along the escape line. Meanwhile a German soldier has been murdered in Brussels, and Kessler holds twenty people hostage and shoots one each day until the killer is found. The Brigadier is located by Natalie and she prepares to take him down an escape route. London requires safe passage for a Brigadier General with top secret knowledge of a forthcoming push in North Africa (Operation Torch), whose plane was downed en route to Africa. A new forger Max Brocard is found for Lifeline. The staff are preparing to open the new Restaurant Candide, part-funded by the British, on La Grand Place in Brussels. THE HOSTAGE SERIES" The Hostage" is the first episode of the second series of Secret Army. " Be the First Kid in Your Block to Rule the World" ![]()
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