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(CNN) -- The crib in Ellen Darcy's Boston home has sat empty for more than a year. And in suburban Washington, Laura Teresinski has prepared a nursery for a baby that may never arrive.

Guatemala has announced it will conduct a case-by-case review of every pending foreign adoption case.

They and thousands of prospective parents, eager to adopt children from abroad, have found themselves in an emotional legal limbo since two of the most popular countries for international adoptions -- Guatemala and Vietnam -- recently halted their programs.

Now would-be mothers and fathers around the United States wonder what will become of their quest to adopt a child -- a pursuit that can fray nerves, cost up to $30,000 and span several years.

Guatemala announced this month that it would conduct a case-by-case review of every pending foreign adoption case. That put on hold the adoption plans of about 2,000 American families.

The crackdown comes amid reports that some in Guatemala coerce mothers to relinquish their children for adoption -- or steal the children outright and present them as orphans.

Similar accusations have arisen in Vietnam.

After the United States accused adoption agencies there of corruption and baby-selling, Vietnam said in April that it would no longer allow adoptions to the United States.

"My husband and I were absolutely devastated," Teresinski said. "Adoptive parents have put a lot of emotional energy and a lot of financial resources in the process."

Vietnam's decision affects several hundred families.

Families in the United States adopted 4,728 children from Guatemala and 828 from Vietnam last year.

The halt in adoptions from those two nations unfolds against the backdrop of a dramatic rise in international adoptions in the United States.

The number of foreign-born children adopted by U.S. families more than tripled from 1990 to 2004, when it reached a high of 22,884, though the figure has declined slightly each year since.

In 2007, the U.S. granted visas to 19,613 children so they could join an adoptive family in the United States, according to U.S. State Department figures. About 70 percent of those children came from four countries: China, Guatemala, Russia and Ethiopia.

A few other countries have also halted foreign adoptions at various times, including Kazakhstan and Togo.

Yet the suspensions in Vietnam and Guatemala have had the biggest impact -- they're two of the 10 countries that send the most children to adoptive homes in the Unites States.

Fear of fraud stirs heartache

For Darcy, the review seems more detrimental than helpful.

Her adopted daughter, Carolina, remains in a Guatemalan foster home with three dozen other babies. Darcy worries that keeping Carolina, now 15 months old, in a foster home will harm her early development.

"She's not getting one-on-one care by a consistent caretaker," Darcy said, adding later, "Nobody is looking at this as a violation of the kids' human rights except for these (American) parents."

Guatemala, which until now has had little to no oversight of its foreign adoptions, has the highest per capita rate of adoption in the world.

Nearly one in 100 babies born in Guatemala wind up living with adoptive parents in the United States, according to the U.S. consulate in Guatemala.

While adoptive parents in the United States undergo rigorous screening, adoptions in Guatemala had been processed by notaries responsible for determining whether the babies were relinquished voluntarily. They also arrange foster care and handle paperwork -- notaries in Latin America tend to have more legal training than notaries in the United States.

Both Guatemalan and U.S. officials fear the system leads to practices such as paying birth mothers for children or, in some instances, coercion.

Officials in both countries say gaps in regulations and the high sums of money at play -- adoptions can cost up to $30,000 -- may have created unintended incentives in a country where the State Department estimates that 80 percent of the population lives in poverty.

The Guatemalan government has said its review could take a month or longer. As for the American families, they can only wait.

"I think it's overkill," said Darcy, who was matched with Carolina last March and was approved to adopt the girl last winter -- typically one of the last steps before the actual adoption is complete.

"No adoptive parent wants to adopt an abducted child -- a child that wasn't voluntarily relinquished -- but to keep them as hostages is unacceptable," Darcy said.

Guatemala plans reforms

U.S. officials say they sympathize with the parents, but that reviews like the one in Guatemala are in the best interest of the children.

"We feel for them, it's a tough situation," said a State Department official who is not authorized to speak on the record.

"(But) they'll have the comfort of knowing American parents in the future who adopt from Guatemala will get children from a system that has all the safeguards in place so that children are not exploited," the official said.

In the past, Guatemala required birth mothers to sign a document in court saying they were relinquishing their child. They were not required to reveal their reasons.

Now the government may require the presence of the birth mother and child. The goal is to verify identification and make sure the mother is giving up her child voluntarily.

Cleaning up Guatemala's adoption system is a step toward complying with the standards of the Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption, an international agreement that governs adoptions from one country to another. About 70 nations have signed the convention, which seeks to ensure legitimate foreign adoptions.

The United States joined the international convention last year, and rules governing adoptions from one signatory nation to another took effect April 1.

The United States has stopped issuing visas to Guatemalan children after that date, blocking their travel to America -- at least until concerns are addressed.

"We're not pointing fingers at American parents," the State Department official said.

However, the review and changes in Guatemala will ensure that it "does not become a fertile ground for (wrongful) practices on any person, particularly children, who have not been orphaned."

To offset corruption, the U.S. Embassy has added its own requirement: That birth mothers appear with the baby to request a visa for the baby. In August, officials also began requiring two DNA tests to confirm the identities of mother and child.

Still, the Guatemalan solicitor general's office has identified at least 80 cases of adoption irregularities, including baby stealing and false DNA tests.

And the Guatemalan chief prosecutor's office recently launched a criminal investigation into the two laboratories contracted to take DNA samples from birth mothers and children.

'Serious irregularities' in Vietnam

Similar concerns of corruption recently emerged in Vietnam, where investigators had found "serious adoption irregularities," according to a report by the U.S. Embassy in Hanoi.

Documents had been forged or altered, the embassy said, and some parents were paid, tricked or forced into giving up their children for adoption. In some cases, the embassy said, children were offered for adoption without the knowledge or permission of their parents.

The Vietnamese government has denied the accusations.

Even so, it said in April that it would terminate its adoption agreement with the United States, saying it won't accept applications after July 1. The program is scheduled to end September 1.

Parents in the United States who were matched with an adoptive child in Vietnam before July 1 will be allowed to adopt that child. Prospective parents who had invested time and money, but had not been matched with an adoptive child, appear to be out of luck.

Private adoption agencies insist that nearly all adoptions from Vietnam are problem-free, and they want the adoptions to continue.

"It's hard to let go, because we know we can advocate for these children and make a real difference," said Linda Brownlee, executive director of the nonprofit Adoption Center of Washington, which places children for adoption from Russia, China, Cambodia and Vietnam.

She hopes the United States and Vietnam reach an agreement so that adoptions can continue.

"Without it, I think children are going to be harmed. They are going to die needlessly, and there is going to be trafficking," Brownlee said.

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text: The

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text: United

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text: system

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text: population

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text: review

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text: American

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text: last

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text: actual

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text: keep

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text: hostages

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text: sympathize

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text: the

text: parents

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text: one

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text: interest

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text: children

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text: State

text: Department

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text: is

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text: the

text: record

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text: they

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text: comfort

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text: the

text: future

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text: children

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text: system

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text: has

text: all

text: the

text: safeguards

text: in

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text: children

text: are

text: not

text: exploited

text: the

text: official

text: said

text: In

text: the

text: past

text: Guatemala

text: required

text: birth

text: mothers

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text: a

text: document

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text: were

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text: their

text: child

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text: not

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text: reasons

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text: government

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text: require

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text: presence

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text: the

text: birth

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text: child

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text: goal

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text: identification

text: and

text: make

text: sure

text: the

text: mother

text: is

text: giving

text: up

text: her

text: child

text: voluntarily

text: Cleaning

text: up

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text: 's

text: adoption

text: system

text: is

text: a

text: step

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text: complying

text: with

text: the

text: standards

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text: the

text: Hague

text: Convention

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text: Intercountry

text: Adoption

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text: international

text: agreement

text: that

text: governs

text: adoptions

text: from

text: one

text: country

text: to

text: another

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text: nations

text: have

text: signed

text: the

text: convention

text: which

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text: to

text: ensure

text: legitimate

text: foreign

text: adoptions

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text: States

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text: the

text: international

text: convention

text: last

text: year

text: and

text: rules

text: governing

text: adoptions

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text: signatory

text: nation

text: to

text: another

text: took

text: effect

text: April

text: The

text: United

text: States

text: has

text: stopped

text: issuing

text: visas

text: to

text: Guatemalan

text: children

text: after

text: that

text: date

text: blocking

text: their

text: travel

text: to

text: America

text: at

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text: until

text: concerns

text: are

text: addressed

text: We

text: 're

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text: fingers

text: at

text: American

text: parents

text: the

text: State

text: Department

text: official

text: said

text: However

text: the

text: review

text: and

text: changes

text: in

text: Guatemala

text: will

text: ensure

text: that

text: it

text: does

text: not

text: become

text: a

text: fertile

text: ground

text: for

text: wrongful

text: practices

text: on

text: any

text: person

text: particularly

text: children

text: who

text: have

text: not

text: been

text: orphaned

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text: offset

text: corruption

text: the

text: U.S.

text: Embassy

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text: added

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text: own

text: requirement

text: That

text: birth

text: mothers

text: appear

text: with

text: the

text: baby

text: to

text: request

text: a

text: visa

text: for

text: the

text: baby

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text: August

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text: also

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text: requiring

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text: DNA

text: tests

text: to

text: confirm

text: the

text: identities

text: of

text: mother

text: and

text: child

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text: adoption

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text: Guatemalan

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text: office

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text: criminal

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text: the

text: two

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text: birth

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text: children

text: Serious

text: irregularities

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text: Vietnam

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text: concerns

text: of

text: corruption

text: recently

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text: in

text: Vietnam

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text: investigators

text: had

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text: serious

text: adoption

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BEIRUT, Lebanon (CNN) -- Amid high emotions and tight security, thousands lined the streets of Beirut Friday to honor Antoine Ghanem, the anti-Syrian Lebanese MP killed in a powerful bomb blast along with four others.

Amin Gemayel (R), Phalange party head, carries the coffin of assassinated deputy Antoine Ghamen.

Against an atmosphere of intense political and patriotic fervor, the flag-draped coffins of the politician and two bodyguards also killed in Wednesday's rush hour blast made its way through the city's Christian district to the Sacred Heart church on what the government had declared as a day of national mourning.

The procession was accompanied by thousands waving flags, as well as a brass band playing the anthem of Ghanem's Phalange Party, The Associated Press reported

TV pictures showed distraught mourners crowding and reaching out to the coffins as they were carried aloft. Several people were seen to collapse and had to be carried away.

Mourners also carried photographs, threw rose petals and unfurled banners, some of which read "We Won't Kneel," AP said.

The coffins were greeted at the Christian Maronite church with applause from the gathered mourners, the agency said, including majority leaders and the Lebanese cabinet as well as Ghanem's family and friends. Ghanem was later buried in the city's Christian district.

Ghanem's death is the latest in a series of attacks targeting prominent anti-Syrian figures, with the most notorious being the February 2005 assassination in Beirut of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, which sparked widespread protests that led to the ouster of Syrian forces from Lebanon. Hariri also died in a massive explosion.

The incident threatens to cast the country into political uncertainty ahead of a key presidential vote in a tightly divided parliament, almost evenly split between anti- and pro-Syrian camps.  Watch how Ghanem's death disrupts Lebanese politics Â»

CNN's Beirut bureau chief Brent Sadler said that many Lebanese now feared for the future, especially given other events in the region including the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis, recent political differences in Iraq and Iran's bid to become a super power.

"There continues to be among a great deal of people here a sense of foreboding that perhaps the worst is yet to come," he said.

U.S. President George W. Bush, in a written statement, joined other world leaders in condemning the "horrific assassination."

"Since October 2004, there has been a tragic pattern of political assassinations and attempted assassinations designed to silence those Lebanese who courageously defend their vision of an independent and democratic Lebanon," Bush said Wednesday.

Also in a written statement, a spokesperson for Ban Ki-moon said the U.N. secretary-general "condemns in the strongest terms this terrorist attack."

"The secretary general urges all Lebanese to exercise utmost calm and restraint at this very critical time and to allow judicial procedures to take their course," the spokesperson said.

Bush's statement added: "The United States opposes any attempts to intimidate the Lebanese people as they seek to exercise their democratic right to select a president without foreign interference. We will continue to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the Lebanese people as they resist attempts by the Syrian and Iranian regimes and their allies to destabilize Lebanon and undermine its sovereignty."

The U.S. Embassy in Beirut issued a statement saying: "It is not a coincidence that these attacks target those figures who have been working to secure Lebanon's independence from renewed Syrian hegemony. We note with concern that many Lebanese politicians allied with Syria have in fact warned that murder and violence would be the results of any effort to exercise genuine parliamentary democracy."

And U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, in a written statement, said: "The bombing that claimed these lives was another act in a campaign of terror by those who want to turn back the clock on Lebanon's hard-won democratic gains."

"The world should speak with one voice in calling for an end to violence in Lebanon intended to subvert democratic processes in that country," Rice said. "Lebanese elections, scheduled to begin in just days, must proceed, in accordance with the Constitution, without threats of foreign interference and the violence that accompanies such obstruction." E-mail to a friend

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KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) -- The British journalist recently freed in a NATO military operation described his Taliban hostage-takers as "hopelessly inept," and praised his Afghan colleague who died in the rescue.

Journalists carry flowers to the grave of Afghan journalist Sultan Munadi in Kabul on Thursday.

New York Times reporter Stephen Farrell described his four days in captivity in a blog on the newspaper's Web site, posted late Wednesday just hours after he was freed.

Taliban militants kidnapped Farrell and Afghan journalist, Sultan Munadi, on Saturday. During a pre-dawn raid Wednesday, NATO's International Security Assistance Force plucked Farrell to safety, but did not retrieve the body of Munadi, who died during a fierce firefight between troops and Taliban militants. A British commando was also killed, as were a woman and child.

There has been criticism about the rescue operation as well as the initial decision to go into the region which Farrell points out in his blog, "was becoming more troubled by insurgents."

International troops, including British forces, have expressed their unhappiness about having to extract a Western journalist from the area, a Western military source in Kabul told CNN. Meanwhile, NATO has come under fire from a coalition of Afghan journalists working for foreign news outlets who called the pre-dawn raid "reckless and double-standard behavior."

The Media Club of Afghanistan issued a statement Thursday saying it "holds the international forces responsible for the death of Mr. Munadi because they resorted in military action before exhausting other nonviolent means."

"There is no justification for the international forces to rescue their own national, and retrieve the dead body of their own soldier killed in action, but leave behind the dead body of Sultan Munadi in the area. The MCA deems this action as inhumane."

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown intends to send a "private" letter of condolences to Munadi's family, a spokeswoman for his office told CNN. In his first-hand account of the kidnapping, Farrell praised Munadi for "trying to protect me up to the last minute."

The two had gone from Kabul to the northern Afghan city of Kunduz on Friday to investigate reports of a NATO airstrike in a Taliban-controlled area. Farrell said he and his colleagues believed the attack, which destroyed two tankers, would be "a major controversy involving allegations of civilian deaths against NATO claims that the dead were Taliban."

He said they took precautions, including waiting until the next day to drive along the main highway in daylight. While they were interviewing locals about what happened along the riverbank, Farrell said "a crowd began to gather, time passed, and we grew nervous."

"I do not know how long we were there, but it was uncomfortably long," he said. "I am comfortable with the decision to go to the riverbank, but fear we spent too long there."

All of a sudden, some of the villagers shouted, "Taliban" and their driver fled with the keys, he said. Farrell and Munadi tried to escape too, but they were captured.

Munadi was struck with a Kalashnikov rifle, but Farrell said apart from that incident, the two were not "subjected to any beatings, torture or ill-treatment over the next four days."

Their Taliban captors operated freely in the area southwest of Kunduz, and appeared to be the only armed presence, Farrell wrote.

"It became a tour of a Taliban-controlled district of Afghanistan, and that control appeared total," he said. "At no point did we see a single NATO soldier, Afghan policeman, soldier or any check to the Taliban's ability to move at will."

Farrell said he and Munadi were "paraded" around by their captors.

"We were paraded to the children in the street: the infidel and his translator, to be laughed at and mocked," he wrote.

The captors operated with relative impunity and, at times, "their operational security was hopelessly inept" -- using Farrell's name over their mobile phones "heedless of who was, almost certainly, monitoring the calls."

They even played songs on the radio that praised the Taliban, he said.

"They were not making it hard," Farrell wrote.

At one point, he said they drove near what they said were watchtowers, manned by the Afghan government and NATO, "gleeful at their daring."

"They drove with headlights full on at night as they moved us from house to house, at least three different buildings a day," according to Farrell.

He said the Taliban captors seemed to be welcomed by some Afghan villagers, while others appeared "more wary and formally polite."

During their captivity, Farrell said "there were good hours, and bad ones," as well as "progress and setbacks." It became harder for the captors to find safe houses, he said.

On the third night, there was what appeared to be an attempt to free them, but their captors took them to another refuge within minutes. Then, on the next night, the aerial activity increased and their Taliban captors grabbed their weapons and headed outside -- leaving Farrell and Munadi behind. They ran out later, Munadi in front, and then became separated.

Then, Munadi appeared again, holding out his hand to steady a faltering Farrell and they ran across a narrow ledge on the outer wall of the compound.

"I could hear Taliban voices shouting and shooting from trees to our left, I thought," Farrell wrote. "I could also hear indistinct voices ahead. We continued 20 yards along the wall until it suddenly reached the corner."

Munadi walked beyond that corner, out into the open, raising his hands and shouting, "Journalist."

"There was a burst of gunfire and he went down immediately," Farrell wrote. "In the dark, with firing all around, trees everywhere and my view obscured by him and the wall, I did not know whether the bullets came from in front, to his right or to his left."

At the sound of gunfire, Farrell reared back and dived into a wet ditch. After a few minutes, he heard British-accented voices and then screamed, "British hostage," flashing a camera light from the ditch.

He said he told the soldiers that Munadi was lying behind him, and had possibly been shot.

"The body was lying motionless in the ditch where I had seen him go down," Farrell said. "I hoped he had dropped and was lying still. I knew it wasn't the case."

The soldiers told him that "they had his picture and would look for him, then dragged me away."

"It was over," he wrote. "Sultan was dead. He had died trying to help me, right up to the very last seconds of his life."

Farrell said he was then taken onboard the aircraft, as the soldiers, most of them British, carried on some celebrations. But they fell silent after learning one of the rescuers died from the wounds sustained in the raid.

"His blood-soaked helmet was in front of me throughout the flight," Farrell wrote. "I thanked everyone who was still alive to thank. It wasn't, and never will be, enough."

CNN's Ingrid Formanek in Kabul, Afghanistan contributed to this report.

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text: saying

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text: the

text: area

text: The

text: MCA

text: deems

text: this

text: action

text: as

text: inhumane

text: British

text: Prime

text: Minister

text: Gordon

text: Brown

text: intends

text: to

text: send

text: a

text: private

text: letter

text: of

text: condolences

text: to

text: Munadi

text: 's

text: family

text: a

text: spokeswoman

text: for

text: his

text: office

text: told

text: CNN

text: In

text: his

text: first

text: hand

text: account

text: of

text: the

text: kidnapping

text: Farrell

text: praised

text: Munadi

text: for

text: trying

text: to

text: protect

text: me

text: up

text: to

text: the

text: last

text: minute

text: The

text: two

text: had

text: gone

text: from

text: Kabul

text: to

text: the

text: northern

text: Afghan

text: city

text: of

text: Kunduz

text: on

text: Friday

text: to

text: investigate

text: reports

text: of

text: a

text: NATO

text: airstrike

text: in

text: a

text: Taliban

text: controlled

text: area

text: Farrell

text: said

text: he

text: and

text: his

text: colleagues

text: believed

text: the

text: attack

text: which

text: destroyed

text: two

text: tankers

text: would

text: be

text: a

text: major

text: controversy

text: involving

text: allegations

text: of

text: civilian

text: deaths

text: against

text: NATO

text: claims

text: that

text: the

text: dead

text: were

text: Taliban

text: He

text: said

text: they

text: took

text: precautions

text: including

text: waiting

text: until

text: the

text: next

text: day

text: to

text: drive

text: along

text: the

text: main

text: highway

text: in

text: daylight

text: While

text: they

text: were

text: interviewing

text: locals

text: about

text: what

text: happened

text: along

text: the

text: riverbank

text: Farrell

text: said

text: a

text: crowd

text: began

text: to

text: gather

text: time

text: passed

text: and

text: we

text: grew

text: nervous

text: I

text: do

text: not

text: know

text: how

text: long

text: we

text: were

text: there

text: but

text: it

text: was

text: uncomfortably

text: long

text: he

text: said

text: I

text: am

text: comfortable

text: with

text: the

text: decision

text: to

text: go

text: to

text: the

text: riverbank

text: but

text: fear

text: we

text: spent

text: too

text: long

text: there

text: All

text: of

text: a

text: sudden

text: some

text: of

text: the

text: villagers

text: shouted

text: Taliban

text: and

text: their

text: driver

text: fled

text: with

text: the

text: keys

text: he

text: said

text: Farrell

text: and

text: Munadi

text: tried

text: to

text: escape

text: too

text: but

text: they

text: were

text: captured

text: Munadi

text: was

text: struck

text: with

text: a

text: Kalashnikov

text: rifle

text: but

text: Farrell

text: said

text: apart

text: from

text: that

text: incident

text: the

text: two

text: were

text: not

text: subjected

text: to

text: any

text: beatings

text: torture

text: or

text: ill

text: treatment

text: over

text: the

text: next

text: four

text: days

text: Their

text: Taliban

text: captors

text: operated

text: freely

text: in

text: the

text: area

text: southwest

text: of

text: Kunduz

text: and

text: appeared

text: to

text: be

text: the

text: only

text: armed

text: presence

text: Farrell

text: wrote

text: It

text: became

text: a

text: tour

text: of

text: a

text: Taliban

text: controlled

text: district

text: of

text: Afghanistan

text: and

text: that

text: control

text: appeared

text: total

text: he

text: said

text: At

text: no

text: point

text: did

text: we

text: see

text: a

text: single

text: NATO

text: soldier

text: Afghan

text: policeman

text: soldier

text: or

text: any

text: check

text: to

text: the

text: Taliban

text: 's

text: ability

text: to

text: move

text: at

text: will

text: Farrell

text: said

text: he

text: and

text: Munadi

text: were

text: paraded

text: around

text: by

text: their

text: captors

text: We

text: were

text: paraded

text: to

text: the

text: children

text: in

text: the

text: street

text: the

text: infidel

text: and

text: his

text: translator

text: to

text: be

text: laughed

text: at

text: and

text: mocked

text: he

text: wrote

text: The

text: captors

text: operated

text: with

text: relative

text: impunity

text: and

text: at

text: times

text: their

text: operational

text: security

text: was

text: hopelessly

text: inept

text: using

text: Farrell

text: 's

text: name

text: over

text: their

text: mobile

text: phones

text: heedless

text: of

text: who

text: was

text: almost

text: certainly

text: monitoring

text: the

text: calls

text: They

text: even

text: played

text: songs

text: on

text: the

text: radio

text: that

text: praised

text: the

text: Taliban

text: he

text: said

text: They

text: were

text: not

text: making

text: it

text: hard

text: Farrell

text: wrote

text: At

text: one

text: point

text: he

text: said

text: they

text: drove

text: near

text: what

text: they

text: said

text: were

text: watchtowers

text: manned

text: by

text: the

text: Afghan

text: government

text: and

text: NATO

text: gleeful

text: at

text: their

text: daring

text: They

text: drove

text: with

text: headlights

text: full

text: on

text: at

text: night

text: as

text: they

text: moved

text: us

text: from

text: house

text: to

text: house

text: at

text: least

text: three

text: different

text: buildings

text: a

text: day

text: according

text: to

text: Farrell

text: He

text: said

text: the

text: Taliban

text: captors

text: seemed

text: to

text: be

text: welcomed

text: by

text: some

text: Afghan

text: villagers

text: while

text: others

text: appeared

text: more

text: wary

text: and

text: formally

text: polite

text: During

text: their

text: captivity

text: Farrell

text: said

text: there

text: were

text: good

text: hours

text: and

text: bad

text: ones

text: as

text: well

text: as

text: progress

text: and

text: setbacks

text: It

text: became

text: harder

text: for

text: the

text: captors

text: to

text: find

text: safe

text: houses

text: he

text: said

text: On

text: the

text: third

text: night

text: there

text: was

text: what

text: appeared

text: to

text: be

text: an

text: attempt

text: to

text: free

text: them

text: but

text: their

text: captors

text: took

text: them

text: to

text: another

text: refuge

text: within

text: minutes

text: Then

text: on

text: the

text: next

text: night

text: the

text: aerial

text: activity

text: increased

text: and

text: their

text: Taliban

text: captors

text: grabbed

text: their

text: weapons

text: and

text: headed

text: outside

text: leaving

text: Farrell

text: and

text: Munadi

text: behind

text: They

text: ran

text: out

text: later

text: Munadi

text: in

text: front

text: and

text: then

text: became

text: separated

text: Then

text: Munadi

text: appeared

text: again

text: holding

text: out

text: his

text: hand

text: to

text: steady

text: a

text: faltering

text: Farrell

text: and

text: they

text: ran

text: across

text: a

text: narrow

text: ledge

text: on

text: the

text: outer

text: wall

text: of

text: the

text: compound

text: I

text: could

text: hear

text: Taliban

text: voices

text: shouting

text: and

text: shooting

text: from

text: trees

text: to

text: our

text: left

text: I

text: thought

text: Farrell

text: wrote

text: I

text: could

text: also

text: hear

text: indistinct

text: voices

text: ahead

text: We

text: continued

text: yards

text: along

text: the

text: wall

text: until

text: it

text: suddenly

text: reached

text: the

text: corner

text: Munadi

text: walked

text: beyond

text: that

text: corner

text: out

text: into

text: the

text: open

text: raising

text: his

text: hands

text: and

text: shouting

text: Journalist

text: There

text: was

text: a

text: burst

text: of

text: gunfire

text: and

text: he

text: went

text: down

text: immediately

text: Farrell

text: wrote

text: In

text: the

text: dark

text: with

text: firing

text: all

text: around

text: trees

text: everywhere

text: and

text: my

text: view

text: obscured

text: by

text: him

text: and

text: the

text: wall

text: I

text: did

text: not

text: know

text: whether

text: the

text: bullets

text: came

text: from

text: in

text: front

text: to

text: his

text: right

text: or

text: to

text: his

text: left

text: At

text: the

text: sound

text: of

text: gunfire

text: Farrell

text: reared

text: back

text: and

text: dived

text: into

text: a

text: wet

text: ditch

text: After

text: a

text: few

text: minutes

text: he

text: heard

text: British

text: accented

text: voices

text: and

text: then

text: screamed

text: British

text: hostage

text: flashing

text: a

text: camera

text: light

text: from

text: the

text: ditch

text: He

text: said

text: he

text: told

text: the

text: soldiers

text: that

text: Munadi

text: was

text: lying

text: behind

text: him

text: and

text: had

text: possibly

text: been

text: shot

text: The

text: body

text: was

text: lying

text: motionless

text: in

text: the

text: ditch

text: where

text: I

text: had

text: seen

text: him

text: go

text: down

text: Farrell

text: said

text: I

text: hoped

text: he

text: had

text: dropped

text: and

text: was

text: lying

text: still

text: I

text: knew

text: it

text: was

text: n't

text: the

text: case

text: The

text: soldiers

text: told

text: him

text: that

text: they

text: had

text: his

text: picture

text: and

text: would

text: look

text: for

text: him

text: then

text: dragged

text: me

text: away

text: It

text: was

text: over

text: he

text: wrote

text: Sultan

text: was

text: dead

text: He

text: had

text: died

text: trying

text: to

text: help

text: me

text: right

text: up

text: to

text: the

text: very

text: last

text: seconds

text: of

text: his

text: life

text: Farrell

text: said

text: he

text: was

text: then

text: taken

text: onboard

text: the

text: aircraft

text: as

text: the

text: soldiers

text: most

text: of

text: them

text: British

text: carried

text: on

text: some

text: celebrations

text: But

text: they

text: fell

text: silent

text: after

text: learning

text: one

text: of

text: the

text: rescuers

text: died

text: from

text: the

text: wounds

text: sustained

text: in

text: the

text: raid

text: His

text: blood

text: soaked

text: helmet

text: was

text: in

text: front

text: of

text: me

text: throughout

text: the

text: flight

text: Farrell

text: wrote

text: I

text: thanked

text: everyone

text: who

text: was

text: still

text: alive

text: to

text: thank

text: It

text: was

text: n't

text: and

text: never

text: will

text: be

text: enough

text: CNN

text: 's

text: Ingrid

text: Formanek

text: in

text: Kabul

text: Afghanistan

text: contributed

text: to

text: this

text: report

question: What did the journalist say?

answer: Farrell said he and his colleagues believed the attack, which destroyed two tankers, would be "a major controversy involving allegations of civilian deaths against NATO claims that the dead were Taliban."

text: Farrell said he and his colleagues believed the attack, which destroyed two tankers, would be "a major controversy involving allegations of civilian deaths against NATO claims that the dead were Taliban."

question: Who does he work for?

answer: New York Times

text: New York Times

question: Who was killed?

answer: Sultan Munadi

text: Sultan Munadi

question: What did the freed British journalist say about the Taliban hostage-takers?

answer: as "hopelessly inept,"

text: as "hopelessly inept,"

question: Who was killed with British comando?

answer: Afghan journalist Sultan Munadi

text: Afghan journalist Sultan Munadi

question: What does the freed journalist say?

answer: his Taliban hostage-takers as "hopelessly inept," and praised his Afghan colleague who died in the rescue.

text: his Taliban hostage-takers as "hopelessly inept," and praised his Afghan colleague who died in the rescue.

question: Who is Stephen Farrell?

answer: New York Times reporter

text: New York Times reporter

question: What is the name of the New York Times reporter that was freed by NATO>

answer: Stephen Farrell

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text:
Decatur, Georgia (CNN)  -- LaShonda Durden had just given birth to her second child. She was two weeks back from maternity leave when her supervisor called her into her office.

"You need to be trying to find other employment," her manager said.

A bereavement coordinator and chaplain at an Atlanta, Georgia-area hospice, Durden suddenly found herself coping with the grief of being unemployed. Sixteen months later, she's still out of work.

"It's a vicious cycle," she says.

Durden is not alone. She is among the 16.5 percent unemployed African-Americans -- almost twice the rate of unemployment for whites. The figure was included in a new report released Wednesday on the state of black America by the National Urban League.

The report presents other sobering statistics on the nation's racial divide on economics, education, health, civic engagement and social justice. Among them:

The median household income for blacks stands at $34,218; for whites, it's $55,530. Less than half of blacks own a home compared to three quarters of white families. Blacks are more than three times as likely to live in poverty.

In addition, black-owned businesses represent a paltry 5 percent of privately owned companies, and the study says more are needed to help spur job growth in minority communities.

The Obama administration, the study suggests, has taken measures to improve the gap between whites and blacks, although it says more is needed. The report says legislation needs to focus on minority job training, tax incentives and extensions for unemployment benefits.

Andrew Grant-Thomas, the deputy director of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, says he believes the statistics for unemployed black Americans is far greater than what's being reported. The figures don't include people not actively seeking employment or people with higher education degrees forced to take jobs for which they're overqualified.

"The disparities are definitely huge and that number understates the size of the disparity," he says. "You want to take that number and double it."

"This recession is even bigger than Katrina hitting New Orleans," he adds. "Yes, everyone got hit, but not everyone was hit equally as hard -- and shouldn't we invest in those hit the hardest?"

The faces of the statistics

On Tuesday, Durden went to Java DeLight Cafe, in a predominantly African-American suburb of Atlanta. She goes there to network and search for jobs via the Internet over its WiFi connection.

The cafe  is owned and operated by Patricia Setzer, an African-American who opened the establishment in 2008. She says she can relate to many of her customers. Days after she opened her business, her husband was laid off. It took him eight months to find a new job. "We literally just went without for awhile," she says.

Setzer hopes her cafe can serve as a networking hub. She calls it "the cultural meeting place." If her regular customers don't return for weeks, she wonders if they've succumbed to hard times: "When they're not here, I'm thinking about them."

"We want people to come here and meet and enjoy themselves," Setzer says.

To that end, she's organizing a job club at her cafe -- a place to host unemployed Americans (of any ethnicity) and give them hands on training, from resume help to how to dress for interviews. Barbers and hair stylists will be on hand for those who need fresh cuts.

As a business owner, Setzer is a minority in a minority: Just 5.2 percent of small businesses in the U.S. are black-owned.

"We're all struggling, whether you're white, black or green," says Setzer as she flips turkey patties. "You've just got to hold on."

On this day, Diane Ridley Roberts, president of a management consulting firm, worked from her laptop inside the cafe. Unlike other businesses that aren't hiring, she says she's having trouble finding qualified people.

Ridley Roberts, an African-American, says there is no homogenous state of black America. "To say we're all in one boat is a little naive, I think," says the owner of Global Evaluation & Applied Research Solutions.

But she adds that there are common experiences that only black Americans can fully relate. Even in 2010, she says, she feels she has to doubly prove herself when she is awarded a contract.

"There are certain judgments, ideas and perceptions about me when I walk into the door as someone's consultant," she says. "It is what it is."

An unexpected job interview

Sipping coffee at a table in the cafe, Durden talks about all manner of difficulty -- from her work as a hospice chaplain to her own layoff and struggle. She's turned her joblessness into action: She volunteers monthly to help the homeless.

It's a reminder, she says, that her family "could be worse off."

"And that's the blessing for me -- just knowing that I am sustained," she says, "that even if the bottom falls out, God still has us in His hands."

She sends out her resume at least three days a week. She attends job fairs about every two weeks. Those get discouraging, she says, with 400 people jockeying for one position.

She holds a sociology degree from Georgia State University and went on to seminary school. At this point, she'll take anything to help her family. And that's another part of the job hunt. She's overqualified for many positions and often wonders: "Do I dumb down my resume?"

"I have a passion to help people do better than they're doing now, regardless of where they are in life," she says. "I just love people."

As for her African-American roots, she says, "It means I expect to excel in what I do because I know who my foremothers and forefathers are.

"Being black in America right now, for me, it means hope. It means keeping that hope when some others may not be able to."

Durden piqued the interest of one person in the cafe. Overhearing Durden's story, Ridley Roberts asks if she has a resume. Durden pulls out her flash drive and downloads a copy.

The two then leave the cafe. The impromptu job interview is Durden's best lead in a while. That's the life of the jobless: Networking and constantly searching, even on the fly.

CNN's Sarah Hoye contributed to this report.

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(PEOPLE.com) -- After suffering the miscarriage of their 20th child, Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar will hold a memorial service on Wednesday, December 14, for the baby girl they have named Jubilee Shalom Duggar.

The reality TV stars of TLC's "19 Kids and Counting" had discovered on Thursday at a routine ultrasound appointment that their 20th child, due next April, no longer had a heartbeat. Advised by her doctor to let the miscarriage occur naturally, Michelle, 45, was being cared for at home by her family.

Following the miscarriage late Sunday night, Michelle began to feel lightheaded and as a precaution was taken to the hospital, where she was kept for observation, according to a family spokesperson. Michelle is recovering well and expected to return home later on Monday, the spokesperson adds.

RELATED: Michelle Duggar Resting at Home, Plans to Name Child

"We have had many tears today," says Jim Bob Duggar, 46. "This is life, and I understand that we are going though something that many others have. You think about the what-ifs, but God gives us strength to go on. We won't be able to see this child's life and the phases that we've seen for our other children, but we know we will see this child in heaven one day. We are thankful for each child, and we are blessed to have the children we have here and the ones we will meet someday in heaven."

Jubilee Duggar's memorial service will be for friends and Duggar family members, who on late Sunday already held a private service in their home.

"We would like to thank everyone for their prayers, emails and outpouring of love," Jim Bob wrote in a letter he shared with PEOPLE. "As our whole family is grieving, we also know that God promises to work all things for good in our lives. Our prayer is that Jubilee's passing will help us all realize that this life is short, and our relationship with Jesus is the most important thing. He gives us a peace in our hearts as He guides us through whatever we might face."

Though the family is in mourning, Jim Bob says they are grateful for the health of youngest daughter, Josie, who turned 2 on December 10. Josie survived against all odds after being born at just 25 weeks and 1 lb., 6 oz. and has developed normally with no lasting impairments.

"We were looking forward to this birthday because it is a milestone for her," he says. "It is wonderful that she is with us and doing so well."

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question: who was taken to the hospital?

answer: Michelle Duggar

text: Michelle Duggar

question: When is the memorial service?

answer: Wednesday, December 14,

text: Wednesday, December 14,

question: when will Michelle expected to return home?

answer: later on Monday,

text: later on Monday,

question: who will hold a memorial service for their 20th child?

answer: Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar

text: Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar

question: What is Michelle recovering from?

answer: miscarriage of their 20th child,

text: miscarriage of their 20th child,