BRKNG: NBC News Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel Has Gone Missing In Syria... News Blackout

NBC News chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel has gone missing in Syria, according to Turkish news reports. The reports also say that Aziz Akyava, a Turkish journalist working with Engel, is unaccounted for. NBC News has been successfully keeping Engel's status subject to a news blackout—one to which Gawker agreed until now—for at least the past 24 hours.

Turkish newspaper Hurriyet is reporting that Engel and Akyavaş were last known to be in Syria and haven't been in contact with NBC News since Thursday morning. The news has been reported widely in the Turkish press over the past 24 hours, including by Turkish news channel NTV, which presents itself as an international partner of MSNBC. It's also been widely distributed on Twitter.

But NBC News has been asking every reporter who inquires about the report to participate in a news blackout. It has also taken to Twitter and asked people who repeated the Turkish reports there to take them down. You can see here a screengrab of the Twitter account @NBCComm asking a Twitter user who had mentioned the reports to urgently call a cell phone number (that account has since been taken down).

[link to www.hurriyet.com.tr]

I think it ia time for all workers in danger zones to be given the RFID chip so they can be located and extracted sooner rather than later.

HE was tying Benghazi with Al-Quida. He was droned.

HE was tying Benghazi with Al-Quida. He was droned.

He's missing, that is news. And if it was not supposed to get out, then why is it suddenly appearing all over the place, with no nbc associates coming in to say be quiet?

does he live in CT? a little girl by the name of Engel was one of the ones murdered on Friday

You can be sure he was not abducted by
the Assad government, because if he was,
the Pentagon would have shouted it from the
hilltops.
No, he was probably taken by the FSA extemists,
killed for not being a Muslim, and the Pentagon
is covering it up.
Also, know that "NBC" did not ask for a blackout,
only the Pentagon has that power, which they
exercise over all US mainstream media in real time.

Can we send the rest of NBC to look for him?

:gdb::gdb::gdb::gdb:

You shilling for the RFID companies? Why not just put a big red bright flashing light on his head and back.

He's not a Pet, nor livestock.

I saw a blurb on this today. It isn't a blackout, it just isn't important to them.

It would interfere with their gun grab propaganda

Engel has pushed his luck before and gotten into tight situations to get the story. I can't stand NBC but he's a good reporter. Hope that fellow turns up and is OK.

Can we send the rest of NBC to look for him?

They probably seen the evidence of Terrorists Aka FSA is making plans to use chemical weapons and blame it on Asad.

Can we send the rest of NBC to look for him?

his head will turn up!

Send that maddow kid. he looks tough.

Please, we beg you . . . STOP posting that awful avatar!

It would interfere with their gun grab propaganda