Four Members of CBS News Team Reported Missing in Saudi Arabia
Four CBS journalists covering the Persian Gulf War were reported missing today after a Saudi military patrol found their empty car in northern Saudi Arabia, the network said.
“It is our expectation they are with friendly forces,” but their whereabouts are not known right now, said CBS spokesman Tom Goodman.
The four include veteran correspondent Bob Simon.
CBS has not heard from the four since Monday morning, when they contacted the CBS bureau in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, he said. Their car was found near the Kuwait border town of Al Roqui.
Goodman said the four men, among more than 700 print and broadcast journalists now in Saudi Arabia covering the war, had not been part of a military press pool and were working by themselves on a story.
Simon, who has long experience covering the Middle East, also covered the Vietnam War and the fighting in Lebanon.
Goodman identified the other missing CBS journalists as producer Peter Bluff, cameraman Robert Alvarez and soundman Juan Caldera.
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