Welcome home Laura Ling & Euna Lee

Euna Lee and Laura Ling stepping off the plane and setting foot on American soil for the first time in over 140 days.


Laura Ling gives a statement of thanks and gratitude.

Freed journalist: 'We are so happy to be home' (CNN)

Welcome home ladies, it's great to have you back.

President Bush gave Kim Jong-Il pancreatic cancer

My own little nutty conspiracy theory. After all, President Bush got blamed for everything else that occurred during his administration so why not give him credit for "Axis of Evil" leader #3, Kim Jong-Il being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer at the same time he suffered his stroke last August. Oh by the way, that was Bush's fault too.

Another great singing voice soon to be silenced.

Laura Ling, Euna Lee sentenced to 12 years "hard labor"

I tend to agree with some analyst, and the sane side of me tends to feel that these two women are just caught in the middle of a political chess game by North Korea and that there the pawns. But then again, we're not dealing with a sane government (they seem to be preparing for another missile launch) in North Korea and human life and world opinion mean absolutely nothing to Kim Jong-Il.

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US 'concern' for jailed reporters (BBC)
N. Korea sentences US reporters to 12 years labor (Yahoo/AP)
Journalists Ling and Lee Get 12 Years Hard Labor (The Jawa Report)
N. Korea Convicts 2 U.S. Journalists (The Washington Post)
North Korea jails U.S. journalists, warns U.N. (Reuters)