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Published on Friday, October 10, 2008
By LA Daily News Staff Writer
AMMAN, Jordan - Two American journalists who went missing during a vacation in Lebanon were quoted Friday as saying they were "kidnapped" by their taxi driver and taken into Syria, where they were held in custody for a week before being released.
The two - Taylor Luck, 23, and Holli Chmela, 27 - spoke to their newspaper, the Jordan Times, upon returning to Jordan early Friday. They were released Thursday in Damascus, where authorities said they had crossed the border illegally with the help of smugglers.
In the report, Luck said the two had hired a taxi driver to take them from Lebanon to Syria. But instead of driving to an official border crossing where they expected to get an entry visa for Syria, the driver went off the main road, then "locked the doors" and demanded their money.
Luck, of Oak Park, Ill., said they refused to give the cab driver anything
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