Ex-hostages tell of mad dash - no commandos

Source: SF Chronicle

(10-01) 04:00 PDT Cairo --

The end of a 10-day ordeal for the tour group came far out in the desolate Sahara, when kidnappers lined up some of the captives and cocked their weapons. "At that moment, we thought we were dead," said one Egyptian guide.


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Instead, the gunmen shouted: "Go, go, go!"

The 11 European tourists and eight Egyptian guides and drivers crammed into a single four-wheel-drive vehicle, five of them perched on the roof, and made a harrowing drive to safety across more than 200 miles of desert on a moonless night, the freed hostages said Tuesday. Their captors apparently fled.



Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/01/MNIL138UD4.DTL&hw=kidnappers&sn=001&sc=1000

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Well well well, no grand rescue, no running gun-fights or dashing hero's. Did the Sudan take lessons from the US military about how to puff up stories to make them look heroic or what? I read all about the fictional account yesterday, but i guess the tourists are now out of the control of the government there now so some honesty can come out.

Thanks for the post. The media has barely mentioned this story.