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By Art Harris, The Bald Truth, (c) www.artharris.com, all rights reserved

Sleepless and under unfathomable stress for five days as hostages of “crazy gunmen” in a five star Tripoli hotel, CNN’s Matthew Chance and dozens of international journalists were released Wednesday morning after a harrowing chapter in the life of even the most seasoned war correspondent.

“We were hostages,” he said Wednesday on CNN, something he was cautious about conveying in his live reporting until now, fearful of how AK-47 armed guards might react if he described the terror he and others were experiencing as Tripoli was falling to rebels outside, and journalists negotiated with guards who could not believe or accept fate after more than 40 years of a dictator’s iron rule. Read the rest of this entry »