“The identities will be released after the next of kin have been notified. “
Next of kin? Kinda the wrong context for that isn’t it.
They do notify next of kin if you’ve just been shot down by hostile forces. Nothing unusual about that at all.
Good thing they were picked up by the rebels....what would Premier Hussein do if that had been an American crew, and were captured by Kadaffy??
Better yet, what happens after Premier Hussein summarily withdraws all US Forces from Libya, and one of the coalition aircraft gets shot down and the crew captured. What then??