[Roccus]

Then, early in 2006, a reporter from Time Magazine got wind of the incident, and all hell broke loose.

IIRC, this vermin got e-mails about the incident.....FROM INSURGENTS!!!

[jazusamo]

Exactly...It was Tim McGirk and they were insurgents posing as human rights workers.

[a fool in paradise]

Time Magazine had an Australian journalista embedded with the “inurgents” of Al Qaida. I suspect that the media had a collective panty wad about wiretapping terrorist phone calls that connected to the United States because the newsrooms didn’t want their researchers being brought up on charges of espionage and treason.

Frontline had an episode that interviewed the above journalist.

Additionally, Peter Jennings and some journalist (Mike Wallace?) discussed how they would NOT notify US troops of an impending attack if they got word of it in advance.

The US media (with Canadian citizens like Petah at the anchor chair) was decidedly anti-American.

Neutrality my rump.