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Arrested journalist stoned by Afghans
Annova via DRUDGE REPORT ^ | Story filed: 23:19 Wednesday 10th October 2001 | Editorial Staff

Posted on 10/10/2001 3:56:50 PM PDT by vannrox

Arrested journalist stoned by Afghans

A French journalist has been paraded through streets of Jalalabad as townspeople hurled stones at him.

Michel Peyrard was arrested in Afghanistan after secretly entering the country disguised as a woman.

The Afghan Islamic Press reported that Mr Peyrard has been placed under investigation for spying.

According to radio reports, two Pakistanis, arrested with Mr Peyrard, were also paraded through the streets.

Meanwhile the managing editor of Mr Peyrard's employer Paris Match, Olivier Royant, has been sent to Pakistan to try to win the release of the reporter.

He will try to speak with Taliban leaders there, editor-in-chief Alain Genestar said.

He said: "We have reason to hope, now. Yesterday, the Taliban were sure they had arrested a spy, and now, thanks to the information we were able to transmit to them, they are considering that Peyrard may be a journalist."

The Taliban ordered all foreign journalists to leave Afghanistan shortly after the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington.

Mr Genestar added that Paris Match had used "all possible and imaginable means" to communicate to the Taliban that Mr Peyrard was in Afghanistan as a reporter for the magazine.

He said the magazine had been communicating through France's Foreign Ministry and the presidential Elysee palace.


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Stoned.

My God, they are absolutely MEDIEVAL.

1 posted on 10/10/2001 3:56:50 PM PDT by vannrox (MyEMail)
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Hey----when is Jesse Jackson going over there?
2 posted on 10/10/2001 3:58:27 PM PDT by FITZ
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To: vannrox
What does this article have to do with germ warfare?
3 posted on 10/10/2001 4:01:04 PM PDT by independentmind
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To: vannrox
Actually, they're pre-medieval.
4 posted on 10/10/2001 4:01:23 PM PDT by Post Toasties
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Could we send Dan Rather?
5 posted on 10/10/2001 4:01:39 PM PDT by eFudd
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through streets of Jalalabad as townspeople hurled stones at him

Looks like we have the co-ordinates for our next BOMB.

6 posted on 10/10/2001 4:02:32 PM PDT by Cool Guy
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To: vannrox
Ananova only covers stories about genitalia, so they must have hit him in the nuts.
7 posted on 10/10/2001 4:02:41 PM PDT by Willie Green
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I guess the transvestite population of Than Franthithco will be out in the streets of Kabul raising hell!!!
8 posted on 10/10/2001 4:02:42 PM PDT by Norb2569
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To: independentmind
Perhaps the rocks weren't sanitary.
9 posted on 10/10/2001 4:03:06 PM PDT by Redcloak
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To: vannrox
Looks like those crazy peace-loving muslims are at it again!
10 posted on 10/10/2001 4:03:07 PM PDT by Walkin Man
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I'm afraid to ask but ... anyone know what has happened to the 8 Christian missionaries ???
11 posted on 10/10/2001 4:03:24 PM PDT by clamper1797
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To: FITZ
Damn, Afghans are even less friendly than Parisians.
12 posted on 10/10/2001 4:04:54 PM PDT by Stentor
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To: vannrox

What is the big deal. I've seen lots of stoned journalists right here in the US.


13 posted on 10/10/2001 4:05:08 PM PDT by Common Tator
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Oh Gosh!, wouldn't it be ABSOLUTELY DREADFUL if Jesse went there and was mistaken for an American journalist and was stoned or something like that? It would be a "hate" crime of the worst magnitude.

Where do I sent his airfare?

14 posted on 10/10/2001 4:05:31 PM PDT by garyhope
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Stoned?? You mean all that poppy stuff I've been hearing about???
15 posted on 10/10/2001 4:05:53 PM PDT by Chinito
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Yeah, but at least you can get a glass of wine with your snooty rudeness in Paris.
16 posted on 10/10/2001 4:06:51 PM PDT by garyhope
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disguised as a woman.

( Why does he want to get the Taliban men all sexed out )

18 posted on 10/10/2001 4:07:51 PM PDT by KQQL
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This situation is worse than I thought...Alec Baldwin is over there advising them.
19 posted on 10/10/2001 4:09:17 PM PDT by GrinFranklin
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What's the IQ of a journalist who would enter Afganistan dressed as A WOMAN!!?? Or was this his feminist version of "Black Like Me"?
20 posted on 10/10/2001 4:09:50 PM PDT by miss marmelstein
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