Paul Salopek, writing in the Chicago Tribune in an article entitled "U.S. appears to be losing its secret war in Somalia", reported that jihadists had vowed to kill every foreigner in Somalia in response.
The presiding judge in Salopek's case had previously sentenced Slovenian writer and activist Tomo Križnar on August 14, to two years in prison on charges of spying and publishing false information.
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In 2008 Daoud Hari published a memoir of the ordeal called The Translator (New York: Random House) in which he details what happened.
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Salopek was detained in Darfur, Sudan by Sudanese government officials on August 6, 2006, along with his Sudanese interpreter Daoud Hari (aka "Suleiman Abakar Moussa") and Chadian driver Abdulraham Anu (aka "Ali"), while on a freelance assignment for National Geographic magazine.
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Tomo Križnar - a peace activist also charged with espionage, passing information illegally, writing "false news," and entering Sudan without a visa, who also distributed 400 video cameras to the local ethnic Nuba civilians in order to help them collect the evidence of the (North) Sudan military's war crimes against them.
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