IP: reporters in N. Afganistan]

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 13:34:33 -0700
> From: Brad Templeton <brad () templetons com>
> To: dave () farber net
> Subject: [kathryn () ksml com: reporters in N. Afganistan]
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>
> A week old, but still amusing.  The reporters become the story.
>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/artic es/A13847-2001Oct5.html
>
>
> By Peter Baker
> Washington Post Foreign Service^M
> Saturday, October 6, 2001; Page C01 ^M
>
>     JABAL SARAJ,  Oct. 5
>
>     If American troops even now are mounting a covert operation in the
>     mountains of Afghanistan, they have done a masterful job of keeping
>     hidden. Another invasion force from the West, however, has been a
>     little less discreet.
>
>     One interloper arrived by donkey over the Afghan mountains. Another
>     sneaked into Taliban territory disguised as a woman, covered head to
>     toe in a traditional burkha. Others convoyed for five days along
>     bumpy roads straddling steep slopes, with both their vehicles and
>     their sanity breaking down along the way.
>
>     Once here, they have taken over houses, raided the bazaar and swamped
>     the local economy with more dollars than anyone has seen in these
>     parts since the days when the United States funded the guerrilla
>     war against Soviet troops. They have set up ambushes to snare poor,
>     bedraggled refugees, and enticed rebel troops at the sleepy front
>     line into firing artillery shells at nothing in particular.
>
>     The swarm and descent of the international media horde is never a
>     pretty sight.
>
>     <snip>


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