As many of you know, I was on vacation last week. While catching up on my reading, I managed to finish my October issue of The Atlantic where I found Sarah A. Topol's Tea and Kidnapping:  In the desert with the world’s friendliest hostage-takers. It seems kidnapping or hostage-taking is epidemic in the Sinai. "Between February and early July, Bedouin tribesmen took three pairs of Americans, three South Koreans, a pair of Brazilians, and a Singaporean on “safaris” lasting between a few hours and several days." Ms. Topol spent several pages writing about the pleasures of being kidnapped by Bedouins deep within Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. No where was there any mention of the far different experience of the 10,000 Eritreans kidnapped over the past four years. Then this Sunday, I found this story buried in the back of The Sunday Times: Egypt Kidnap Gangs Burn Eritrean Captives Alive by Lucy Fisher. Click here to read the full story.

Where's the outrage? Why such a gap in coverage, when clearly there are journalists crawling all over the area?