Posted on 09/09/2009 8:28:07 AM PDT by Lorianne
Stephen Farrell, a New York Times reporter held captive by militants in northern Afghanistan, was freed in a military commando raid early Wednesday, but his Afghan interpreter, a British commando and an Afghan woman were killed in the raid.
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Now he can get back to disparaging the war effort.
vaudine
And that makes sense how?
Is it not the same New York Slimes that was regularly supplying classified national security info to these Al Quaeda terrorists on their front pages during the Bush administration, in order to strengthen Al Quaeda and embarrass Bush?
Why on earth is anyone risking their lives to save this vermin?
My heartfelt condolences to the families of the interpreter and the civilian. You too sacrificed much for a crappy reporter working for a "progressive" lying news organization.
The difference between a dead Times writer and a dead snake? There was a skid mark in front of the snake.
Charge the bum reporter with murder. He was negligent going to a warzone unprotected. The holier than thou media seem to want civil law to apply to the battlefield. Give it to them.
Hidden in this story is the evidence that NATO has gotten good intelligence to locate and rescue this waste of oxygen. That means that some hearts and minds have been changed in Afghanistan, at the grass roots level.
A reporter gallivanting around of his own free will in a war zone gets captured due to his own recklessness and irresponsibility and it costs the lives of three people to rescue him including a brave soldier who’s family will be getting notified soon.
I hope the POS can live with himself now.
There’s a skid mark in front of the Times reporter, too.
Burnouts leave skid marks.
}:-)4
Stephen Farrell was a British-Irish national and his reports have often helped the Brits.
It costs alot of money to train British Commandos. Quite aside from the terrible human cost, this journalist’s rescue came at a high price.
I wonder if HM Government shouldn’t consider sending a bill to the newspaper.
I would.
Doesn’t seem like a fair trade.
I should maybe just mention that the reporter is a Brit working for the Times and the reason they went in to save his miserable skin.. was because the Brits have sworn to act against any kidnappings of their own people.
I don’t know this idiot but he should be down on his knees thanking the brave men who risked their lives that he might live. Like the recent border crossings into N Korea by those two stupid women..my thinking is to leave them there to stew in their own juices.
As regards to the war going on in that god forsaken country...they have been fighting there since time began..one of my distant relatives won a VC for rescuing the Officers baggage train in a British retreat from the Pathans around the Khyber Pass area. This was way back before Pontius was a pilot.
There is no way to win this stupid war or to unite the country..they don’t want to be united..fighting is a way of life for them. Trying to give them democracy or freedom as we know it.. is a total waste of time and human lives. As soon as we leave the place the war lords will commence fighting again and the situation will be back to square one.
About 130 Canadian young men have been sacrificed out there so far and I know that the Brits/Americans have lost a lot more..for what? We are no closer now than when the Russians tried to take over the country.
It is amazing to me that senile politicians who have trouble putting their underpants on.. cannot see that a determined small ragtag force will always beat a large army when conditions are right.
1) A rugged terrain. 2) A plentiful supply of ammunition. 3) A fanatical following. 4) A group of opposition leaders who have no idea what they are getting into (and don’t really care as long as it looks good to the rest of the world.)
Get out of there NOW..the people will sort their own problems out in the end..just as all countries have to.
I would, too.
What a sad trade-off, a British Commando for a NY Times reporter, seems like a total loss.
Earn it you ink stained scum! Earn it!
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