Bravo, Bill Clinton!

[malamute]

Originally Posted by ergohead

Probably paid a billion dollar ransom.

Maybe - there's obviously much we don't know.

This whole incident was weird. The two women were employees of Al Gore, and for some very odd reason ended up going to the N. Korea border.

Now why are employees of Al Gore's little tiny insignificant news outlet making those kinds of trips? Then the media reports on how they'll be sent to prison camps, forced to do hard labor and then we find out they were in a cushy hotel, calling their friends and family every day. No hard labor at all.

Then instead of the Secretary of State doing anything about getting them back, out marches Bill Clinton smirking like the cat that swallowed the canary.

Something weird about this whole feel-good story.

[malamute]

Originally Posted by tinman01

Yet again?
Individuals ignore travel bans and warnings to travel to a country openly hostile not only to the USA but to the free media.
They are arrested believe it or not and then the US gov is expected to get them out of the jam.
So how much did all this cost the USA? At least the price of a round trip plane flight.
Now we have some hikers captured in Iran.
When will people learn that travel bans and warnings are in place for a reason.
Yes I know the hikers thought that they were still in Iraq. Uhmmm isn't there a lot of shooting going on there?

You know they were working for Al Gore? That's what's extremely strange about this whole deal.

They weren't CNN or FOX or even NBC reporters. They were employees of Al Gore, best buddy of Bill Clinton.

[TigerLily24]

Originally Posted by malamute

Maybe - there's obviously much we don't know.

This whole incident was weird. The two women were employees of Al Gore, and for some very odd reason ended up going to the N. Korea border.

Now why are employees of Al Gore's little tiny insignificant news outlet making those kinds of trips? Then the media reports on how they'll be sent to prison camps, forced to do hard labor and then we find out they were in a cushy hotel, calling their friends and family every day. No hard labor at all.

Then instead of the Secretary of State doing anything about getting them back, out marches Bill Clinton smirking like the cat that swallowed the canary.

Something weird about this whole feel-good story.

Sorry? Do you have a link to support this?

Freed journalists Laura Ling, Euna Lee call captivity in N. Korea a nightmare

[USNRET04]

Originally Posted by TigerLily24

Sorry? Do you have a link to support this?

Freed journalists Laura Ling, Euna Lee call captivity in N. Korea a nightmare

The article you posted has no mention of where they stayed.

Here is an article I found that was written in June:

The Americans would likely be sent to a prison in Sariwon, about 58 kilometers (36 miles) south of Pyongyang, said the defector, who asked not to be identified because of the sensitive nature of his job. The Sariwon prison usually houses purged party members, he said.

The facility was built in the early 1990s as a "showcase" prison for international human rights groups doing inspection tours. The prison's architecture is better than ordinary government buildings, and it has televisions, refrigerators and beds in each room, the former official said.

Although foreign military prisoners have reported harsh conditions and abuse, some of the most recent civilian prisoners in North Korea have had no major complaints.

Journalists Laura Ling, Euna Lee Won't Be Sent To N. Korean Gulag, Experts Say - wbztv.com (http://wbztv.com/national/north.korea.journalists.2.1038002.html - broken link)