Syria hands over bodies of foreign journalists

French photographer Remi Ochlik and American journalist Marie Colvin, who were killed in Homs, Syria from shelling by Assad regime forces. / AP Photo

(AP) DAMASCUS, Syria - Syrian Red Crescent officials have handed over the bodies of two foreign journalists who were killed in Syria to embassy officials.

French ambassador Eric Chevalier received the body of French photographer Remi Ochlik, and a Polish diplomat received the remains of American Marie Colvin. U.S. interests in Syria are represented by Poland.

Both journalists died on Feb. 22 in shelling while trapped inside the besieged Baba Amr district of Homs.

Red Crescent director in Syria Abdel-Rahman al-Attar says the two bodies were handed over Saturday and transported to the French hospital in Damascus ahead of their repatriation to their countries.

It's unclear when they will be flown out of the country.

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[smittyc]

No one really knows what happened here. The rebels are desparate to get the international community involved. The rebels could well be responsible for their deaths and that is a very good possibility. Colvin had been around the war zones for a long time as a correspondent. She had a lot of savvy. The bigger picture is we don't know who we can trust with our lives, just look at the incident in Afghanistan where the Major and Colonel were shot in the head by an afghan "ally" inside a secured compound. Shame on those that sent her, who ever you are you stink.

[usunus]

Earlier reports said Marie Colvin would be buried in Syria.If she was buried there,the burial site would have become a shrine for the wahabized Sunni rebels.

[Mike_in_USA]

So what?