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Published December 18, 2012, 12:00 AM

Richard Engel, and two other speak during a news conference


NBC chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel, center, NBC Turkey reporter Aziz Akyavas, left, and an unidentfied NBC crew member speak during a news conference in Reyhanli, Turkey, Tuesday, Dec. 18. 2012. More than a dozen pro-regime gunmen kidnapped and held NBC's chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel and several colleagues for five days inside Syria, threatening them with mock executions and blindfolding them before the team finally escaped unharmed during a firefight between their captors and rebels, Engel said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Anatolia) TURKEY OUT, ONLINE OUT
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