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Libyan Government Freed Four N.Y. Times Journalists

Six days after they were captured while covering the conflict between government and rebel forces in the eastern city of Ajdabiya. They were released into the custody of Turkish diplomats and crossed safely into Tunisia in the late afternoon, from where they provided a harrowing account of their captivity. They entered Lybia through the eastern region of over the Egyptian border. None had visas to cover the insurrection. They were detained in Ajdabiya by forces loyal to Qaddafi.

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March 22, 2011

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NYT caught in the crossfire

Miss Addario, seen far left, sprints for cover with fellow journalists, including New York Times photographer Tyler Hicks (right in glasses), during another blast.

The journalists; Anthony Shadid, The Times’s Beirut bureau chief, a Pulitzer Prize winner for international reporting; two photographers, Tyler Hicks and Lynsey Addario, and a reporter and videographer, Stephen Farrell, who in 2009 was captured by the Taliban in Afghanistan and was rescued by British commandos. This was an experienced crew, but nothing could prepare them for being in the clutches of the enemies hand.

The four had been covering the insurrection near Ajdabiya last Tuesday when they decided that it was getting too dangerous for them to continue. Their driver, inadvertently had driven into a checkpoint manned by forces loyal to Colonel Qaddafi. By the time they knew they were in trouble, it was too late.

“I was yelling to the driver, ‘Keep driving! Don’t stop! Don’t stop!’ ” Mr. Hicks recalled. “I knew that the consequences of being stopped would be very bad.”

The driver, Mohamed Shaglouf, is still missing. Hind sight is 20/20. If the driver had tried to drive straight through, Mr. Hicks said, ” the vehicle certainly would have been fired on. ” The soldiers flung the doors to their sedan wide open so quickly that they had little if any chance to get away. As they were being pulled from the car, rebels fired on the checkpoint, sending the four running for their lives. “You could see the bullets hitting the dirt,” Mr. Shadid said.

All four made it safely behind a small, one-room building, where they tried to take cover. They told all four to empty their pockets and ordered them on the ground. And that is when they thought they were seconds from death.

“I heard in Arabic, ‘Shoot them,’ ” Mr. Shadid said. “And we all thought it was over.”

Then another soldier spoke up. “One of the others said: ‘No, they’re American. We can’t shoot them,’ ” Said Mr. Hicks

The soldiers grabbed whatever they could get their hands on to tie up their prisoners: wire, an electrical cord from a home appliance, a scarf. One removed Ms. Addario’s shoes, pulled out the laces and used them to bind her ankles. Then one punched her in the face and laughed.

“Then I started crying,” she recalled. “And he was laughing more.” One man grabbed her breasts, the beginning of a pattern of humiliating behavior she would experience from her captors over the next 48 hours.

“There was a lot of groping,” she said. “Every man who came in contact with us basically felt every inch of my body short of what was under my clothes.”

Their captors held them in Ajdabiya until the fighting with the rebels died down. Soldiers put the four in a vehicle and drove them out of the city around 2 a.m. One threatened to decapitate Mr. Hicks. Another stroked Ms. Addario’s head and told her repeatedly she was going to die.

“He was caressing my head in this sick way, this tender way, saying: ‘You’re going to die tonight. You’re going to die tonight,’ ” she said

Their vehicle stopped repeatedly at checkpoints, each time allowing for a new group of soldiers to land a fresh punch or a rifle butt in their backs. The first night they spent in the back of a vehicle. The second night they spent in a jail cell with dirty mattresses on the ground, a bottle to urinate in and a jug of water to drink.

On the third day they were on the move again, this time to an airfield. Mr. Shadid, who speaks Arabic, had overheard one of the soldiers saying something about a plane, and the four assumed they would be flown somewhere. As they were loaded on the plane they were blindfolded and their hands were bound tightly with plastic handcuffs.

They landed on Thursday in Tripoli, where they were handed over to Libyan defense officials. They were transferred to a safe house, where they said they were treated well. They were each allowed a brief phone call.

That was the first time since their capture two and a half days earlier that their whereabouts became known to their families and colleagues at The Times.

Their disappearance had kicked off an intensive search effort. The Times canvassed hospitals and morgues, beginning a grim process-of-elimination search. The paper also turned to a variety of people on the ground who might have heard or seen something, security contractors for Western businesses, workers for nongovernmental organizations. It also notified American diplomats.

The State Department got word by phone to Jeffrey D. Feltman, the assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs on Thursday afternoon that the journalists were safe , this information came from an aide to Abdullah al-Senussi, the head of Libyan military intelligence and the brother-in-law of Colonel Qaddafi, Mr. Feltman said. The arrival of the four journalists in Tripoli was just the beginning of three days of frustrating, and tense negotiations conducted by a State Department consular officer, Yael Lempert. Libyan officials kept changing their demands for the conditions of the journalists’ release, and an allied coalition, including the United States, began bombing Tripoli to enforce a no-fly zone. Several Libyan agencies were involved in the negotiation, which added to the confusion.

First the Libyan government demanded that an American diplomat come to Tripoli to take the journalists, State Department officials said. The United States, which closed its embassy in Libya last month, refused. After initially resisting, the Libyans agreed to allow the Turkish Embassy to act as an intermediary.

The release was scheduled for Sunday but was delayed until Monday because of the bombing. The four were turned over to Turkish diplomats Monday afternoon, and were driven to the border with Tunisia.

While Monday was a day for celebration and relief at The Times, other news organizations covering the conflicts in Libya and elsewhere in the Arab world have not been so lucky. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, 13 journalists are either missing or in government custody. The missing include four from Al Jazeera, two from Agence France-Presse and one from Getty Images. In addition, six Libyan journalists are unaccounted for, the group said.

Others have died. A Libyan broadcaster was killed Saturday while covering a battle near Benghazi. A cameraman for Al Jazeera was killed in the same area on March 12, the first death of a journalist in Libya during the current conflict. Now that the four are safe Bill Keller the Executive Editor of the NY Times said “We’re particularly indebted to the government of Turkey, which intervened on our behalf to oversee the release of our journalists and bring them to Tunisia,” Assitance was also granted throughout the week by diplomats from the United States and United Kingdom.

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Hantavirus Outbreak On Cruise Ship Sparks Global Contact Tracing As Trump Is Once Again President During A Potential Pandemic-Level Threat

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May 7, 2026

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Trump Was President During COVID And Now He Is President Again As A Deadly Hantavirus Outbreak Triggers Global Contact Tracing Across International Borders

Here we go again? The last time Donald Trump sat in the Oval Office, the whole world was plunged into a pandemic that shut down churches, closed businesses, crashed economies, normalized masks, conditioned people to accept medical passports, and gave governments a once-in-a-generation excuse to test just how much control frightened populations would surrender. Now here we are in 2026, Trump is president again, and once again we are watching global health authorities, airlines, cruise operators, and international agencies scramble to track a deadly virus that has already killed three people. Coincidence? Maybe. But at this point, the word “coincidence” is doing an awful lot of heavy lifting.

“The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.” Ecclesiastes 1:9 (KJB)

The World Health Organization says the MV Hondius cruise ship outbreak was reported on May 2, 2026, and that as of May 4, there were seven cases linked to severe respiratory illness, including two laboratory-confirmed hantavirus cases, five suspected cases, three deaths, and one critically ill patient. Symptoms included fever, gastrointestinal illness, pneumonia, acute respiratory distress syndrome, and shock. AP reports that the outbreak unfolded over weeks as the vessel sailed from Argentina toward Antarctica and then across the Atlantic, with passengers and crew becoming sick before authorities fully understood what they were dealing with.

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That is exactly the kind of “we’ve seen this before” scenario that should make your ears perk up. Not because hantavirus is automatically “the next COVID,” and not because every outbreak is a manufactured event, but because the machinery around these events is now fully built, tested, and waiting. Contact tracing. Isolation orders. Airline alerts. Global coordination. Public-health messaging. International surveillance. We saw that machine roar to life in 2020, and now we are watching the gears begin to turn again. This is what we’ve been warning you about since the first time they tried it.

Oceanwide Expeditions said it is “tracking down the details of passengers and crew on the m/v Hondius since March” and that details would be available in coming days. source

The cruise ship angle makes it even more provocative. AP reported that more than two dozen passengers left the ship on April 24, after the first onboard fatality, before contact tracing was fully in place. Those passengers then had the potential to travel onward internationally. That is the stuff of pandemic tabletop exercises: a contained environment, an exotic pathogen, international passengers, delayed identification, global travel routes, and public-health authorities racing to reconstruct the chain of exposure after the fact.

Now add this wrinkle: this is not just any hantavirus. The WHO-linked reporting identifies concern around the Andes strain, a rare hantavirus associated with South America, and public health authorities are watching it closely because unlike most hantaviruses, Andes virus has been associated with limited person-to-person transmission in certain close-contact settings. That does not mean it is spreading like influenza or COVID. But it does mean the contact-tracing response is not merely theatrical. There is a legitimate reason officials are moving quickly. Just how far things will go remains to be seen, but giving heed to the words of King Solomon in the book of Ecclesiaties 1:9 is a great place to start.

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THE PROPHECY NEWS PODCAST: Perry Stone And Alan DiDio Sound The Alarm That Christian Pastors Are ‘Being Prepared’ For Massive UFO & Alien Disclosure

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Perry Stone And Alan DiDio Say Pastors Were Secretly Briefed By Intelligence Officials To Prepare Christians For UFO Disclosure That Could ‘Shake Their Faith’ In The Bible

Influential Christian pastors are now being told to “prepare” their congregations for shocking government revelations about UFOs, extraterrestrials, non-human materials and alleged alien beings that could cause some professing Christians to question the Bible itself. Want to know what that sounds like to me? Like a major psyop is coming down the pike, much like the one Jesus warns us about in Matthew 24.

“And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.” Matthew 24:4 (KJB)

On this episode of the Prophecy News Podcast, according to a report in the Daily Mail, Tennessee evangelist, author and Bible teacher Perry Stone said that a small group of pastors with large audiences in the Christian community were recently invited to a secret meeting with United States intelligence officials. The purpose of that meeting, according to Stone, was to prepare religious leaders for the possible release of government information involving UFOs, spacecraft and beings allegedly “not from this planet.” Pentecostal pastor Alan DiDio has been sounding a nearly identical prophetic alarm: that UFO disclosure, alien obsession, AI, the Antichrist system, and “non-human intelligence” are converging into a last-days deception aimed directly at the Church. It is worth noting that many of the pastors now warning the Church about UFO disclosure and alien deception are coming from the Charismatic and Pentecostal side of the aisle, the same stream of modern Christianity that has long emphasized dreams, visions, prophetic words, signs, wonders and supernatural manifestations. That makes this moment especially revealing: even those accustomed to talking about the supernatural are now warning that the coming UFO disclosure narrative may become a direct challenge to the Bible itself. But the Bible believer does not need Charismatic prophecy to explain UFO disclosure. We have the more sure word of prophecy, and that Book has already told us about seducing spirits, doctrines of devils, lying wonders, principalities, powers, and strong delusion.

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Iran Is Now Taunting United States Saying They’re ‘Just Getting Started’ In Stunning Exposé Of Just How Little Trump Understands Who He’s Actually At War With

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May 5, 2026

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As Iran Says It Is ‘Just Getting Started,’ Trump’s Department Of War Faces A Religious Regime That Sees Conflict As Its Calling

Iran’s taunt that it is “just getting started” isn’t diplomatic theater or empty sabre-rattling, and it’s not merely the language of a cornered regime trying to save face. It is the language of a Shiite Islamic revolutionary state that has spent nearly half a century building itself around hatred for Israel, hostility to America, terror by proxy, and apocalyptic religious ambition. Washington keeps trying to interpret Iran through the sterile lens of sanctions, ceasefires, oil routes, naval corridors and negotiating tables, while Tehran is telling the world plainly who they are and what they intend to do. The Iranian Regime is more than happy to die for their cause, and until Trump and Hegseth realize that, things will continue to go from bad to worse as they are right now.

“And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.” Genesis 16:12 (KJB)

The current crisis over the Strait of Hormuz is exposing that blindness in real time. The U.S. is attempting to reopen the strait through “Project Freedom,” with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth saying the mission is temporary and that other nations should eventually take over the burden of protecting commercial shipping. Meanwhile, Iran is warning that American interference in the waterway is a violation of the ceasefire and is threatening further escalation. That’s the problem. America is trying to dial down the heat, Iran is trying to turn it up. Iran is not “decimated” or “obliterated”, they are enjoying every minute of it. This is what Washington still does not understand. Iran does not see the Strait of Hormuz merely as a shipping lane. They see it as leverage over the world, a pressure point against the West, and a stage upon which they can demonstrate defiance against America and Israel. Reports say hundreds of vessels and thousands of sailors have been caught up in the crisis, with U.S. forces attempting to guide ships through or around threatened waters while Iranian officials continue to issue threats and challenge American authority in the Gulf.

The Trump administration may understand carrier groups, destroyers, sanctions packages and military briefings, but it has shown very little evidence that it understands the true nature of who we are fighting. Iran is not simply a “bad actor.” It is not merely a rogue state looking for a better deal. It is the head of a terror-sponsoring Islamic regime whose entire regional strategy is built around exporting revolution, surrounding Israel, exhausting the West, and using negotiations as breathing room between rounds of conflict.

Iran’s own statements make that plain. Just days ago, Iranian officials warned of a “long and painful” response if the United States renewed attacks, while restating claims over the Strait of Hormuz and complicating American efforts to reopen the waterway. That is not the tone of a regime looking to stand down. That is the tone of a regime probing for weakness, testing resolve, and watching to see whether America still has the stomach to finish what it starts.

Warmonger Pete saying that “Iran is trying to subjugate the world”. Huh?? I THOUGHT they were “decimated” and “obliterated”, so how are they still able to exert their will on the world? The Department of Lies is more like it. pic.twitter.com/WCZAAjgnMZ

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And here is where Bible believers must see clearly what the Pentagon cannot. This is not just a military contest. This is spiritual darkness expressing itself through geopolitical power. Iran’s hatred of Israel is not incidental to the conflict, it is central to it. Their war is not merely against American ships or Western sanctions. Their fury is ultimately directed at the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and the land He gave by covenant promise.

“Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.” Zechariah 12:2 (KJB)

That is why this conflict cannot be understood by secular analysts alone. They will talk endlessly about oil prices, shipping lanes, ceasefire mechanisms, coalition management, naval escorts and diplomatic offramps. But the King James Bible tells you where all of this is heading. The nations are being drawn, step by step, back to the Middle East, back to Israel, back to Jerusalem, and ultimately back to the prophetic program God declared long before the think tanks and war rooms ever existed.

America wants a temporary mission. Iran wants a permanent confrontation.

The Department of War says it is trying to secure commercial passage. Iran says the strait belongs under its “new maritime regime.” The U.S. wants to lower the temperature. Iran says it is just getting started. That contrast tells you everything you need to know. The Trump administration had better learn quickly that Iran does not think like Brussels, does not negotiate like Ottawa, and does not retreat like a Western bureaucracy embarrassed by bad polling. Iran is a religious dictatorship with messianic ambition, martyrdom theology, terror proxies and a long memory. They are willing to bleed their own people, wreck their own economy, and wreak havoc with global shipping if they believe it advances their war against Israel and the West. Does anyone remember the Kamakaze pilots that attacked Pearl Harbor? Negotations and peace talks have no effect with people who think like that.

This is the true nature of the enemy. And until America understands that, every ceasefire will become a countdown clock, every negotiation will become a delay tactic, every shipping corridor will become a trap, and every Iranian warning will be dismissed as rhetoric right up until the missiles begin to fly. America has already paid a steep price since Trump started this war, and something tells me that that’s ‘just getting started’, too.