I have half a mind to wonder whether their capture was an attempt to cause an international incident. Their biographies were fun to read: 3 UC-Berkeley grads living in Damascus, Syria. Their jobs? Journalists.
http://freethehikers.org/about-the-h...-sarah-shourd/
http://freethehikers.org/about-the-h...t-shane-bauer/
http://freethehikers.org/about-the-h...t-josh-fattal/
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Bauer, Shourd, and Fattal were graduates of the University of California at Berkeley and were well known in the antiwar movement in the Bay Area.
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On moving to Syria in 2008, Shourd and Bauer chose to live in a Palestinian refugee camp and engage in Palestine solidarity work. When Israeli occupation forces shot their friend, Anderson, in the head during a nonviolent protest in the West Bank, they went to visit him in an Israeli hospital, just three weeks before their kidnapping.
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SOURCE: http://www.zcommunications.org/irani...-stephen-zunes
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