Posted on 11/11/2008 12:49:47 PM PST by Dog
An American journalist was kidnapped by Taliban militants in the Afghan province of Logar, located 60 kilometres south of the capital Kabul. David Rohde, a journalist working for the US daily The New York Times, was abducted along with his driver and interpreter by a Taliban group known as Siraj Haqqani and has been taken to eastern Afghanistan, sources told Adnkronos International (AKI).
War-torn Afghanistan has seen a surge in kidnappings of foreigners by Taliban militants recently. On Monday, Canadian journalist Mellissa Fung was freed in Kabul after being held in captivity for four weeks by militants.
Keep him.
They can keep him.
“They can keep him.”
Do we know for certain that he hasn’t just JOINED them for a Jihad Jubilee?
Any word on whether this is a parting shot at Bush, or are we allowed to blame Obama for it now?
Dear Taliban, could you please help with my Christmas wish, could you please..... (can’t say it here, but you know)
LOL!!
...he just went to collect the campaign pledge promised
I’m tempted to feel sorry for him, but then I remembered the latest story in the NYT giving away information about our latest SOF missions against the Taliban.
Something tells me that this guy and those like him do not stop to think about the soldiers that have been killed or injured during the last 8 years as a result of their biased yellow-dog journalism. As far as I am concerned he and the paper he works for have the blood of our soldiers on their hands.
I consider this poetic justice.
They probably are crowning him their tribal chief as thanks for all the work he’s done on their behalf.
Prayers for his safety and presence of mind.
Kidnapped by his buddies...maybe he can get his jihadi friends in Bosnia to help.
Prayers up for the journalists and their crew. What a nightmare.
How sorry would you be if it were John Walker Lindh? He's an American too. There's been too much treason at the Times for me to feel much sympathy for any of their employees. If Rohde continued to work for them, he was in sympathy with it.
I can guarantee what magazine he wasn't working for: SOLDIER OF FORTUNE. They've been incountry since the 1980s and never had a problem. I wonder why? ROFLMAO
>>can guarantee what magazine he wasn’t working for: SOLDIER OF FORTUNE. They’ve been incountry since the 1980s and never had a problem.
Got that right. If Robert Brown can interview the 2nd in command of the Taliban and get a quote, this nincompoop commie NYt reporter can’t?
On a side note: it’s only though SOF and not the MSM that you get small tidbits of info such as Denzel Washington going to Walter Reed quietly and visiting the troops...
This reminds me of a Round Table discussion on TV focused on the ETHICS of Journalists in the war zone - decades ago — where a Marine Officer spoke of the men he lost on missions to rescue reporters who wrote negatively about America’s “involvement” in Vietnam.
Keep him, please.
One enemy of America has been captured by another enemy of America.
Too funny!
I’m looking for my compassion at the moment. Then again, most likely, he’ll return as a convert giving them praise as Freedom Fighters. (gag)
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