The disorder, which has no cure, causes a progressive loss of motor skills and language. Henry died following complications from Rett syndrome, a rare neurological disorder that affects the way the brain develops, according to the Mayo Clinic. “There’s just so much love, and that’s what has gotten me through.” “It was surreal, heartbreaking, gut-wrenching … and also filled with so much love,” she wrote. “It was surreal, heartbreaking, gut-wrenching … and also filled with so much love. Richard Dreyfuss says the new rules mandating inclusivity for future Oscar nominations make him wanna barf - and we mean that literally. I know not every grieving person has the ability to do this, and not everyone wants or needs to,” she wrote. NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Imagesįorrest admitted the NBC News chief foreign correspondent, 49, was “hesitant” about her approach to handling her grief but decided to join her during one of her visits to see Henry’s body, where he “realized the value in having this time to do the impossible: attempt to say goodbye to Henry.”Īlthough Forrest said her actions may be perceived as “weird,” she said it helped her move forward with her grief. Formerly, he served for ABC News network as a freelance journalist in Baghdad. In addition, Richard joined the station in May 2003 working as Beirut bureau Chief and Middle East correspondent. “ would have him ready for me, and I’d go into the room and cry, stroke his hair and face and rest my head next to his,” Forrest wrote. 2 days ago &0183 &32 The US Supreme Court on Friday put on hold the execution of Richard Glossip, an Oklahoma death row inmate whose capital conviction the state attorney general has said he could no longer support. Richard Engel is an American journalist and veteran author currently serving as the Chief Foreign correspondent for NBC News network. Each time I went I would stay for about an hour, then leave the room and head to the front door of the funeral home before turning back for one last goodbye,” she said, adding that she would leave to rejoin her other son, Theo, who was in “the forefront” of Forrest’s mind. “I would wake up feeling anxious to see him. The network "expressed its gratitude to those who worked to gather information and secure the release of our colleagues.Forrest described that period of her and Engel’s life as a “blur” but said her time spent with Henry’s body remains “vivid” in her mind. They were driven to the Syria-Turkey border by the Ahrar al-Sham brigade, and then they re-entered Turkey.
We spent the night with them we didn't get much sleep, and they took us here ," he said.Įngel and the crew, who were unharmed in the incident, remained in Syria until this morning. We climbed out of the vehicle, and the rebels took us. "The kidnappers saw this checkpoint, and started gunfire with it. Firefight ensued, and two of the captors were killed, while an unknown number of others escaped, the network said. They made us chose which one of us would be shot first and when we refused, there were mock shootings."Įngel and his crew were being transported Monday when the vehicle in which they were travelling came upon a checkpoint manned by members of the Syrian rebel group the Ahrar al-Sham brigade. There was a lot of psychological torture, threats of being killed. "We weren't beaten or physically tortured.
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"They took us to a series of safe houses and interrogation places, and they kept us blindfolded and bound," Engel said. NBC confirmed early this morning that after being kidnapped and held for five days in Syria, Engel and his production crew members had been freed unharmed. He did not specify who would have facilitated any exchange for Iranian agents and Lebanese citizens. They are trained by Iranian revolutionary guard. They were openly expressing their Shia faith.
They were talking openly about their loyalty to the government. They are loyal to Bashar al-Assad, they are Shiite.
Speaking on the "Today" show this morning shortly after he and the crew were delivered over the Syrian border to Turkey, Engel said he has a "very good idea" who his captors were. 18, 2012— - Richard Engel, the chief foreign correspondent at NBC News who was released with his crew after five days in captivity in Syria, said he believes that he and his team were going to be exchanged by their captors for four Iranian agents and two Lebanese citizens.
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