19 August 2006

STILL no word on our captured colleagues. I tried to ask my hosts what they've heard from some of the "higher ups" in the network and there really is no news. Still no word even from the kidnappers, which even mideast observers say is very strange. We're just going on faith that they haven't been harmed. It's truly surreal to just keep doing your job knowing this is going on. I think everyone appreciates the daily updates on the crisis from management--even if it's just to say we don't know anything, but here's what we're doing.

On a related--and MUCH less important note: Our WH correspondent said we need to give back my Associate Producer's (formerly kidnapped) bunny because he felt it was in poor taste, in light of what's going. (See previous posts for more information on this caper, if you're not familiar with our 3rd grade hijinks.)

I had to agree--especially since it's been several days now that our co-workers have been taken and no word on their whereabouts. (Before we just assumed they'd be returned unharmed in a few hours--as other kidnap victims have in this current conflict.)

Didn't have the heart to tell him my AP already took the bunny back in a daring "commando" raid. (OR...she just walked into his office and took it from a desk drawer while he was in Crawford.) She just came back from Paris where she says she took LOTS of snapshots of the bunny in front of several Paris landmarks (including, of course, the Eiffel Tower.)