Posted on 08/20/2021 3:01:13 AM PDT by EBH
The Taliban has killed a family member of a journalist for Deutsche Welle, the German international broadcaster said.
In an article published on Thursday, DW said that Taliban fighters had been searching for one of their journalists in Afghanistan, and confirmed that a relative of the journalist was shot dead by the Taliban on Wednesday with one other person seriously injured. Other relatives were able to escape at the last minute and are on the run, the DW article said.
"The killing of a close relative of one of our editors by the Taliban yesterday is inconceivably tragic, and testifies to the acute danger in which all our employees and their families in Afghanistan find themselves," DW Director General Peter Limbourg was quoted as saying in the article. "It is evident that the Taliban are already carrying out organized searches for journalists, both in Kabul and in the provinces. We are running out of time!" Limburg added. The article added that the homes of at least three DW journalists had been searched by the Taliban.
DW's press spokesman Christoph Jumpelt told CNN in a written statement that ''at this point we are not giving individual statements pertaining to the tragic event concerning the relatives of one of our journalists.''
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The first of many?
There are no “journalists” working for DW. Only “activists”.
Taliban 2.0 (hip, cool, all around nice guys) didnt age well.
“”It is evident that the Taliban are already carrying out organized searches for journalists, both in Kabul and in the provinces. We are running out of time!”
Hmmm, perhaps I’ve misjudged the Taliban?
Just a bunch of troubled youts in da hood, the ‘stan.
Can’t be. China Jo said no one had been killed. Not one.
Yeah. Yawn.
They seem to suggest this was a bad thing.
Don’t care.
Time to reconstitute the Wehrmacht Army Group Center to handle this crisis.
Unfortunately FM Von Bock is still dead.
No doubt they were not happy with his reporting. Of course, since he'd be reporting to a German audience, the intel on him must've come from the Taliban's supporters in Germany. Likely those who moved there only recently... Funny how that works, right?
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