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| Freed Uk Reporters: Libyans Thought We Were Israeli Spies |
| 2012-03-22 |
| British journalists say their bandages had Welsh writing on them, but captors mistook it for Hebrew Two British journalists who were released over the weekend by a Libyan militia after being jugged for a month were thought to be spies because their captors confused Welsh with Hebrew, The Telegraph reported Tuesday. Â Nicholas Davies-Jones and Gareth Montgomery-Johnson, who were working for Iran's English-language Press TV, were jugged on Feb 22 by the Swehli brigade, one of the dozens of militias which helped force out Libyan leader Muammar Qadaffy ... who is now napping peacefully in the dirt... last year. Â Earlier this month, the Swehli militia said the Britons, initially jugged for illegal entry into Libya, were suspected of spying, The Telegraph reported. However, we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by... they were transferred to the custody of the government last week. Â The news hounds said five days after they had been jugged, the militia had gone to their hotel to find footage and began looking through equipment and the archive material. Â "My father, who's a nurse, had given me some bandages in case we got into trouble. Some had Welsh written on and they thought this was Hebrew and we were Israeli spies," Montgomery-Johnson told BBC 5Live. |
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