CAIRO, EGYPT (APRIL 3, 2011) (REUTERS) EGYPTIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY BUILDING EGYPTIAN-AMERICAN ENGINEER, MOHAMED RADWAN, ENTERING FOREIGN MINISTRY RADWAN SMILING RADWAN'S PARENTS WATCHING VARIOUS OF RADWAN AND HIS PARENTS MEETING WITH EGYPTIAN FOREIGN MINISTER NABIL EL-ARABY RADWAN ARRIVING TO TALK TO MEDIA (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) EGYPTIAN-AMERICAN RELEASED FROM SYRIAN CUSTODY, MOHAMED RADWAN, SAYING:"I would like to thank President Dr. Bashar al-Assad, who personally issued the release order. And I would like to thank the Egyptian Foreign Ministry, [Foreign Minister] Dr. Nabil El-Araby and Mr. Mohamed Abdul Hakam, and Egyptian Ambassador Shawky Ismail, and the Consul there, Mohamed Faymoui, and Ahmed Shandawili. And I want to thank all of the Egyptian people who stood by me, and the Syrian people who are our brothers. We are all brothers and thank God, and we treat each other well, so God willing the situation will be resolved."REPORTERS INTERVIEWING RADWAN (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) EGYPTIAN-AMERICAN RELEASED FROM SYRIAN CUSTODY, MOHAMED RADWAN, SAYING:"That day there was nothing, it was a Friday and I was in the Amawi mosque, and then all of a sudden people got up in the middle of prayers and so I went and stood with them, and everyone was carrying a mobile phone so I took mine out too and began to take pictures. And then all of a sudden a man came up to me, took me aside and told me to come with him. That's all. I found myself in a car with him, and they took me to a place, and I wasn't sure where I was."REPORTERS INTERVIEWING RADWAN (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) EGYPTIAN-AMERICAN RELEASED FROM SYRIAN CUSTODY, MOHAMED RADWAN, SAYING:"No, that never happened. Firstly, I have never been to Israel. I have never in my life been to Israel. And about the issue of one hundred pounds [for his photos], you're all in the media and you know there is no such thing as selling a picture for 100 pounds. So that didn't happen at all."EGYPTIAN AMBASSADOR, MOHAMED ABDUL HAKAM TALKING TO MEDIA (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) EGYPTIAN AMBASSADOR, MOHAMED ABDUL HAKAM, SAYING:"We are very proud of the glorious 25th of January revolution, and I would like to assure you today that there is a new spirit, and an insistence to provide all assistance and help to all Egyptian citizens abroad. We will protect out sons, we care for our sons, and we cannot abandon any Egyptian no matter where he is."RADWAN AND FAMILY LEAVING MINISTRY BUILDING