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“Echoing accounts their families have given in their absence, Shourd said Sunday that the three had been hiking in a popular tourist area -- near a waterfall in Iraq's Kurdistan region -- and had no idea the [Iraq-Iran] border was nearby. "If we were indeed near the Iraq-Iran border, that border was entirely unmarked and indistinguishable," she said. […] Officials in Oman -- an ally of both Iran and the United States -- mediated a $500,000 bail for Shourd that satisfied Iranian authorities and apparently did not violate U.S. economic sanctions against Iran. The source of the bail payment has not been disclosed. Shourd and Bauer had been living together in Damascus, Syria, where Bauer was working as a freelance journalist and Shourd as an English teacher. Fattal, an environmental activist and a fellow graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, came to visit them last July, and the three went hiking.” [emphasis added]
— Published September 19, 2010 | FoxNews.com
Well of course they aren't spies. The three of them graduated from UC Berkeley, for goodness sake. Spies aren't idiots.
Post 1,424 UC Berkeley Spy-Program is an Oxymoron
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