Kidnapped Journalist in Libya

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  1. Benghazi
    port in northern Libya on the Gulf of Sidra
    If Ajdabiya fell, Colonel Qaddafi’s forces would be on the doorstep of Benghazi, the opposition capital, and perched on a highway to the Egyptian border, from where we had entered Libya without visas.
  2. traffic circle
    a road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
    As we left the town’s last traffic circle, heading for Benghazi, all of us saw the checkpoint in the distance.
  3. military formation
    a formation of troops
    Their vehicles were a dark army green, and they lined in the street in military formation.
  4. encapsulate
    enclose in or as if in a small container
    Hearing a familiar voice seemed to encapsulate everything that camaraderie came to mean.
  5. superimpose
    place on top of
    “Forty-one years of permanent joy,” read one slogan superimposed over a sunburst.
  6. antiaircraft fire
    firing at enemy aircraft
    After the no-fly zone was imposed and we heard volleys of antiaircraft fire, we thought that a desperate government could make us human shields.
  7. camaraderie
    the quality of affording easy familiarity and sociability
    Camaraderie and Brutality

    The next afternoon, on Thursday, was perhaps the worst beating.
  8. journalist
    a person who writes or broadcasts news stories
    4 Times Journalists Held Captive in Libya Faced Days of Brutality
    John Moore/Getty Images
    TYLER HICKS The New York Times photographer near the front line during a pause in the fighting on March 11 in Ras Lanuf, Libya.
  9. queasy
    causing or able to cause nausea
    Tyler, feeling queasy, asked to sit down.
  10. detritus
    loose material that is worn away from rocks
    At its best it was dictatorship, at its worst chaos, and what we saw from one end of the country to the other was the detritus of an experiment whose own people lamented had lasted far too long.
  11. idiomatic
    relating to the natural expressions of native speakers
    But the words that lingered with us as we left were quoted to Steve by an urbane Foreign Ministry official speaking idiomatic British English.
  12. sheik
    the leader of an Arab village or family
    A man whom soldiers called the sheik questioned us, then began taunting Tyler.
  13. graffiti
    unauthorized drawings or writing on walls in public places
    Graffiti of devout prisoners was etched into the wall, testament to an insurgency that was crushed in eastern Libya in the late 1990s.
  14. contorted
    twisted, especially as in pain or struggle
    “Journalists!” he yelled at the other soldiers, their faces contorted in fear and rage.
  15. taunting
    abusing vocally; expressing contempt or ridicule
    A man whom soldiers called the sheik questioned us, then began taunting Tyler.
  16. militiaman
    a member of the militia; serves only during emergencies
    We felt like trophies of war, and at a dozen checkpoints, we could hear militiamen running to the car to administer another beating.
  17. emblazon
    decorate with heraldic arms
    Lynsey was brought a shirt that read, “Magic Girl,” emblazoned with two teddy bears.
  18. intermediary
    a negotiator who acts as a link between parties
    In the end, Turkish diplomats served as intermediaries and delivered us to the border.
  19. denounce
    speak out against
    The man went on to denounce the rebels he said they were fighting — Qaeda fanatics, he said, and gangs of armed criminals.
  20. precede
    be earlier in time
    As the hours passed, we replayed each moment of the preceding days in detail, trying to piece together what had happened to Mohammed.
  21. semblance
    the outward or apparent appearance or form of something
    The more they talked, the clearer it became: This semblance of a state was not a state.
  22. seize
    take hold of; grab
    And none of the men around us, all born after Colonel Qaddafi seized power as a young lieutenant in 1969, could imagine Libya without him.
  23. lamented
    mourned or grieved for
    At its best it was dictatorship, at its worst chaos, and what we saw from one end of the country to the other was the detritus of an experiment whose own people lamented had lasted far too long.
  24. bayonet
    a knife fixed to the end of a rifle and used as a weapon
    Another soldier tried to shove a bayonet into Steve’s rear, laughing as he did it.
  25. inevitably
    in such a manner as could not be otherwise
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    But moments of kindness inevitably emerged, drawing on a culture’s far deeper instinct for hospitality and generosity.
  26. perpetual
    continuing forever or indefinitely
    The Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab State of the Masses was supposed to be perpetual revolution.
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