Las Vegas Sun

April 25, 2024

In this photo released by Spanish newspaper El Periodico de Catalunya on Sunday, March 2, 2014, journalist Marc Marginedas, who works for the newspaper, sits by his laptop at the Canadian base in Nakhonay, Afganistan, in this photo taken on Oct. 10, 2010. Marginedas, who was kidnapped by al-Qaida-linked militants in Syria crossed the border into Turkey on Sunday, March 2, 2014, his newspaper reported, as activists said government airstrikes killed at least 13 people in a northwestern border town. Veteran war correspondent Marginedas was abducted on Sept. 4 near Hama by jihadists belonging to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, a breakaway al-Qaida group. He was "moved repeatedly" while in captivity and was accused of spying for the West before his release, his newspaper El Periodico said.

Agustin Catalan, El Periodico de Catalunya / AP

In this photo released by Spanish newspaper El Periodico de Catalunya on Sunday, March 2, 2014, journalist Marc Marginedas, who works for the newspaper, sits by his laptop at the Canadian base in Nakhonay, Afganistan, in this photo taken on Oct. 10, 2010. Marginedas, who was kidnapped by al-Qaida-linked militants in Syria crossed the border into Turkey on Sunday, March 2, 2014, his newspaper reported, as activists said government airstrikes killed at least 13 people in a northwestern border town. Veteran war correspondent Marginedas was abducted on Sept. 4 near Hama by jihadists belonging to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, a breakaway al-Qaida group. He was "moved repeatedly" while in captivity and was accused of spying for the West before his release, his newspaper El Periodico said.