Tara Brown on Beirut kidnapping GONE WRONG

In April, 2016, crew-members from The Australian current affairs program were detained in Beirut, Lebanon During filming-the child of a botched Operation recovery.

Veteran Journalist Tara Brown, Producer Steven Rice, Ben Williamson cameraman and sound recordists David Whiles Ballment were arrested attempting to help Australian woman Sally Faulker Recover from The care of her children 'Ms. Faulkner's estranged Former partner, Ali Elamine.

In a special edition of-the Channel 9 program marking 40-years of 60 Minutes, Print to air Sunday, Brown and several of her colleagues share some startling Admissions.

Amongs the-Brown Confession From the SHE That still has not read the-coverage newspaper That followed her arrest, includingï¼ a front-page story headlined "Tara's Torment".

"The Ambition To Be the Never-the story," SHE TELL-the program.

"I still have not Seen thoses front pages. There's a great SENSE of the sorrows whens you Realize What you've made a splash, for REASONS for-the-wrong. "

Reporter Charles Wooley WHETHER ponders the-right-the team did not Simply following the Thing-the story, the-pocket Becoming story.

"Shouldnt we HAVE DONE it? In retrospect, you would not have wanted to because everybody strating Suchi through a torrid time. "

Journalist Alison Langdon called it "the Worst day of my career as a Journalist". She told That program-the news of her colleagues being arrested and detained in a Foreign Prison "shocked us because for the Could've Been ANY of us".

But not everybody are on the 60 Minutes the team remorseful. Ray Martin, Who Once droves a getaway car recovery Operation During a child in Spain in 1980, jumped to HIS colleagues 'defense'.

Martin said no-the media thought it right to treat the-way-the crew Nine They did.

"The idea of ​​Journalists Journalists on turning over a legitimate story appalled me," Martin said.

"I think the-newspaper coverage Was Cheap and Nasty and I think we shouldnt've Been working as Journalists for them to get out of there's."

Previously Martin spoke about-the decision he made and HIS Earlier DECADES team. He said the-shits were remarkably SIMILAR.

"Ethically, as a Journalist, I thought we were doing-the-right Thing, because-the courts thought judged-the case and DECIDED That the-mother thought Custody of the Children, And The father thought broken Australian laws and Taken the Children away," Martin said .

"We certainly did not pay ANY money to them … That's one of the-areas I would not comment on," he said, Adding: "I know-the crew are highly Ethical, and I can not Believe They would do something to That's unethical. "

Brown and her crew were includingï¼ Facing kidnapping charges, Physical assault, hiding information and Criminal Conspiracy. They escaped for charges.

They were detained on April 7 alongs With Ms. Faulkner and child abduction-members of a team over a kidnapping attempt involving Ms. Faulkner's two children '.

The children 'were living in Lebanon With their father, Ali Elamine, whens agents From International Child Abduction Recovery, includingï¼ founder Adam Whittington, attempted a daylight abduction That strating horribly wrong.

The Beirut Judge Who Accepted the-ruled are on the case and directed the-FINANCED Nine Network Operation kidnapping, something to Nine's own review ALSO acknowledged Despites-the company's early insistences the Whittington paid by mistake.

Brown and Producer Rebecca Le Tourneau won a Walkley Award for journalism in 2015 for Brown's take-down of pedophiles Peter Scully in a story titled "Catching A Monster".

In her interview for 60 Minutes'40th year special, said SHE-the greatest tragedy about What happened in Beirut was not her arrest, or-the arrest of her colleagues.

'There is definitely still a story told to BE in Beirut, and you still Want to tell it, despites What happened Despites Various Judgments and around it. The core of What That Was To Be told about the yet and it's a story That Happen over an over again, potentially Every week, in Australia. "