On Thursday 16 July 2009, FT2 wrote:
::Archived at: http://marc.info/?i=e71d9fab0907161320j56d701abi481968d1875db570@mail.gmail....
Update: I've now checked the case, and yes I had heard of this matter. But being on a break for the last few weeks to deal with real-world matters, I hadn't made the connection just from the words "Rohde/NYT". I checked which article with Rohde in the title, also covered the NYT as well. Luckily there was only one.
Huh, that surprises me, because right in the history log we see that Rohde was kidnapped:
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I even said this to the NYT reporter when I spoke to him and he implied that this information had been suppressed... So that's two possible wrinkles from the original story:
1. The page was protected, but nothing more. 2. The kidnappers had asked that the information be suppressed as part of their demands, rather than this being the initiative of NYT.