A skeptical CNN correspondent asked where they had found beer, since Kuwait is dry.

Three CNN correspondents stayed despite the impossiblity of communication.

A CNN correspondent, pinned down with a Lebanese army unit during an intense gun battle, reported that government forces had not reacted to the violence.

"I'm supposed to be the main target," he tells a CNN correspondent.

Bellini was a CNN correspondent from 1998 to 2005.

He will stay there, along with five other CNN correspondents, at least until tomorrow, Mr. Jordan said.

The CNN correspondent intoned an explanation of what was to come.

Andrea Koppel, the ailing CNN correspondent, nodded that she was still fit to file.

Mr. Hussein has apparently received many appeals on behalf of the four men, the CNN correspondent said.

A CNN correspondent, Ben Wedeman, was wounded by gunfire there.