"The French Government has asked Pakistan to help secure the release of a French journalist being held in Kabul on suspicion of spying.
"Michel Peyrard, who works for the French news magazine Paris Match, was arrested on Tuesday in the east of Afghanistan wearing a full-length women's veil, or burqa."
[French seek Pakistan help over journalist]
"Russias highest-ranking defector says State Department claims that no foreign or American journalists are engaged in espionage is absolute nonsense. Col. Stanislav Lunev reveals that many journalists from Russia and other countries are, in reality, spies. He also says that many Russian journalists have recruited leading American reporters to engage in espionage as well.
Col. Lunev was the highest-ranking spy ever to defect from the GRU, Russias military intelligence unit. He did so while living and working in Washington as a TASS correspondent.
His story was deemed so vital by the CIA and FBI that he remains under the Witness Protection Program. He currently writes a column for NewsMax.com."
[RUSSIA DEFECTOR: LARGE NUMBER OF SPIES ACT AS JOURNALISTS]