{"id":296580,"date":"2011-03-09T22:01:37","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T22:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/09\/gaddafi-forces-detain-bbc-team\/"},"modified":"2011-03-09T22:01:37","modified_gmt":"2011-03-09T22:01:37","slug":"gaddafi-forces-detain-bbc-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/09\/gaddafi-forces-detain-bbc-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaddafi forces detain BBC team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"58.6138482024\">\n        \t\t  <span><br \/>\n    <span>9 March 2011<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Last updated at <\/span><span>17:01 ET<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>        <!--  Embedding the video player --><br \/>\n<!--  This is the embedded player component --><\/p>\n<div readability=\"32\">\n<div>\n<div readability=\"7\">\n                                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"holding\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/ac1be1c609_51604208.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"Libyan rebel fighters\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Please turn on JavaScript.<\/strong> Media requires JavaScript to play.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>        <!-- embedding script --><\/p><\/div>\n<p>            <!-- companion banner --> <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<!-- END - companion banner --><!-- caption --><\/p>\n<p>Rebels have been fighting in Zawiya and Bin Jawad<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<!-- END - caption -->\n        <\/div>\n<p><!-- end of the embedded player component --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Player embedded -->                      <\/p>\n<p>Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi&#8217;s security forces detained and beat up a BBC news team who were trying to reach the strife-torn western city of Zawiya.<\/p>\n<p>The trio were beaten with fists, knees and rifles, hooded and subjected to mock executions by members of Libya&#8217;s army and secret police.<\/p>\n<p>The three men were held for 21 hours, but have now flown out of Libya following their detention on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Government forces are in a fierce fight to wrest Zawiya from rebel control.<\/p>\n<p>One of the team, Chris Cobb-Smith, said: &#8220;We were lined up against the wall. I was the last in line &#8211; facing the wall. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I looked and I saw a plain-clothes guy with a small sub-machine gun. He put it to everyone&#8217;s neck. I saw him and he screamed at me.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Then he walked up to me put the gun to my neck and pulled the trigger, twice, the bullets whisked past my ear. The soldiers just laughed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A second member of the team &#8211; Feras Killani, a correspondent of Palestinian descent &#8211; is said to have been singled out by their captors for the worst of the violence.<\/p>\n<p>The third member of the team, cameraman Goktay Koraltan, said he was convinced they were going to die.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read this article:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/int\/news\/-\/news\/world-africa-12695077\" title=\"Gaddafi forces detain BBC team\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gaddafi forces detain BBC team<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 9 March 2011 Last updated at 17:01 ET Please turn on JavaScript. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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