After some difficult combat, the Marines arrived in Firdos Square — mainly to rescue journalists who were trapped in the Palestine Hotel.
The last known U.S. ground raid inside Syria took place in July, when Special Operations forces landed outside the north-central city of Raqqa, which serves as Islamic State headquarters in that country, to rescue journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff.
While the U.S. military has penetrated Syrian airspace on at least one occasion since the start of the civil war — during a failed bid this year to rescue journalist James Foley and other Americans being held by the Islamic State — that raid involved the use of modified Black Hawk helicopters.
That may have been the problem; with Bill in the spotlight flanked by those grateful, rescued journalists, reports from Hillary's big trip to Africa, on which she has been raising important issues, like that of mass rape in war zones and government corruption, were crowded out.
In their interviews, Foley's family stressed their hopes that more is done to rescue western journalists captured by Isis, including Steven Sotloff.
It is an exception to the pattern of Clinton's post-presidential diplomatic work, which was usually done at the request of his successors — such as his trip to North Korea in 2009 to help rescue imprisoned journalists at the request of President Obama.
Most of Hollywood wants drones for making films, police want them to patrol the skies, the National Guard needs rescue bots, journalists want cheap aerial footage, farmers would love unmanned crop dusters, and every college stoner glued to their couch would trade a vital organ for the Tacocopter.
Some of them were screaming; others flailed their arms, begging to be rescued, the journalists said.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) — Mexican police rescued two journalists Saturday who had been kidnapped earlier in the week by suspected drug traffickers seeking to silence the media.
Last year, US military forces unsuccessfully tried to rescue American journalist James Foley and other hostages thought to be in eastern Syria only to find that they had been moved.
At the moment, he is keen to talk about how he has helped turn around a failing newspaper, the Evening Standard, which he and his father purchased in 2009, rescuing its journalists, and thus striking a blow for freedom of the press.
