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Local ‘guides’ endanger journalists - The Japan News

Local ‘guides’ endanger journalists

Keigo Sakai / The Yomiuri Shimbun

People gather at a border checkpoint in Kilis, southern Turkey, on Saturday.

7:19 am, January 26, 2015

By Keigo Sakai and Hiroshi Mizota / Yomiuri Shimbun Correspondents KILIS, Turkey — Some local “guides” who offer to act as mediators, helping foreign journalists gather information in areas controlled by the Islamic State, actually help the militant group abduct them.

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