Four New York Times journalists who disappeared in Libya on Tuesday are being held by government forces and will be released this Friday, the paper said. "The New York Times journalists were found missing and will be released on Friday," said Robert Christie, spokesman for the newspaper, in a message on Twitter.
The newspaper reported the disappearance of the four on Wednesday. Were near the port city of Ajdabiya during fighting between rebels and forces of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. In an interview broadcast Friday by U.S. television network ABC News, one of Gadhafi's sons, Seif al Islam Gadhafi acknowledged that a reporter was arrested and was being released.
Journalists arrested are Anthony Shadid, a correspondent in Beirut and Pulitzer Prize winner twice, Stephen Farrell, a reporter and videographer who was kidnapped in 2009 by the Taliban in Afghanistan and released by British commandos and two photographers, Tyler Hicks and Lynsey Addario , both with experience in the Middle East and Africa. 
The newspaper reported the disappearance of the four on Wednesday. Were near the port city of Ajdabiya during fighting between rebels and forces of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. In an interview broadcast Friday by U.S. television network ABC News, one of Gadhafi's sons, Seif al Islam Gadhafi acknowledged that a reporter was arrested and was being released.
Journalists arrested are Anthony Shadid, a correspondent in Beirut and Pulitzer Prize winner twice, Stephen Farrell, a reporter and videographer who was kidnapped in 2009 by the Taliban in Afghanistan and released by British commandos and two photographers, Tyler Hicks and Lynsey Addario , both with experience in the Middle East and Africa.
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