Has anyone heard any update on Anthony Bourdain?

[mtnester]

Last news I have is now 48 hours old and he and crew were still holed up and stuck in Lebanon...has anyone heard anything else? I have googled for something more recent, but nothing out there.

[babylonsister]

1. Check here, from eleny...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=236x23372

[mtnester]

2. Thanks, it appears he got out OK on the USS Nashville

Here is an excerpt from his comments aboard the Nasville:

"The embassy didn't answer the phone for a week. At the checkpoints, it was like a Metallica concert gone terribly wrong. It was a mob scene."
US television chef Anthony Bourdain, aboard the USS Nashville.


And also from Reuters:
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"I was in love for two days and had my heart broken on the third," Bourdain said.

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But Bourdain said his efforts to leave Lebanon had not been easy, frustrated by unanswered telephone calls to the embassy and a "horror show" at a beach outside Beirut where they had gathered before U.S. Navy and marines whisked 1,052 Americans to the ship by landing craft and then on to nearby Cyprus.

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Bourdain said the rapidly escalating violence had destroyed a blossoming city that had finally begun to emerge as a vibrant, democratic cultural hotspot after a civil war and the subsequent political influence of neighbouring Syria.

"I feel this awful sense of regret that we were never able to show Beirut as it was," he said. "To see everyone's hopes die and watch the country dismantled piece by piece was very painful. I'm very angry and very frustrated."

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L20701101.htm