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Murdered: Luke Sommers:
British-born American freelance photojournalist Luke Summers went to Yemen to teach English but stayed to cover the 2011 Arab Spring uprising for Al Jazeera, the BBC and The New York Times. He was kidnapped by al-Qaida militants in September 2013 as he left a grocery store. IN December 2014, Somers was killed by militants during a failed rescue attempt by US Navy SEALs. He was 33 years old.
Missing: Austin Tice:
A former Marine captain who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, Austin Tice covered the war in Syria as a freelance journalist for The Washington Post and McClatchy Newspapers. He disappeared in August 2012, just days after his 31st birthday. Since then, the only sign of him has been a shaky 47-second video on YouTube, released a month and a half later, showing him blindfolded, being led by men armed with machine guns. |