Paying a high price in the pursuit of truth
ON April 19, four underfed men were found in a field in a no man’s land on the Turkish border with Syria. They were blindfolded and handcuffed, and one had a long grey beard. It was quickly discovered they were four French journalists — Nicolas Hénin, Pierre Torres, Edouard Elias and Didier François.
They had been held for more than 10 months by a radical Muslim group, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), whose objective is to establish an Islamic state in the northern Syrian land it has pried from Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
