Posted on 09/09/2009 1:03:26 AM PDT by The Magical Mischief Tour
KABUL — British commandos freed a New York Times reporter early Wednesday from Taliban captives who kidnapped him over the weekend in northern Afghanistan, but one of the commandos and a Times' translator were killed in the rescue, officials said.
Reporter Stephen Farrell was taken hostage along with his translator in the northern province of Kunduz on Saturday. German commanders had ordered U.S. jets to drop bombs on two hijacked fuel tankers, causing a number of civilian casualties, and reporters traveled to the area to cover the story
Two military officials told The Associated Press that one British commando died during the early morning raid. They spoke on condition of anonymity because the death had not been officially announced.
The Times reported that Farrell's Afghan translator, Sultan Munadi, also was killed.
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The “driver/translator” was actually an Afghani Journalist Student who studied in Germany. He wrote that article 7 days ago before he was killed. Sultan M. Munadi sounded like a decent human being who loved his country.
“Those times are past now. Now I am hopeful of a better situation. And if I leave this country, if other people like me leave this country, who will come to Afghanistan? Will it be the Taliban who come to govern this country? That is why I want to come back, even if it means cleaning the streets of Kabul.”
Do you know if it was 22SAS or are you speculating?
“No reporter is worth a soldiers life.”
Amen to that.
The New York Time reporter WAS NOT worth the life of this Heroic British Commando. To the British family who scarified so much for so little, you have my deepest heartfelt condolences. I would like to thank the Soldier for doing his duty. He is an example to the metro-sexual, hypocritical liberal news organization, whose member he helped rescue. May his heroic death serve as a learning moment to these cowardly, selfish, short sighted, lying, progressive basturds.
I personally would have let the Taliban have him.
Wonderful. Now the NY Times reporter can trash the soldier that died for him.
>>”Sultan M. Munadi sounded like a decent human being who loved his country.”
HIS life may well have been worth the risk. But his death was inevitable, if premature. As someone who could read and write, AND anti- Taliban, he would have been marked for death as soon as we leave — just as the Khmer Rouge did in Cambodia. Starting with anyone who wore glasses, i.e. an obvious intellectual.
DG
Those who appreciate the work of Michael Yon might not agree with you...
<smile>That sounds like an outstanding school.</smile>
I am quite frankly shocked that a school like that exists today. But perhaps Australia will survive long after America falls. Thanks for quoting the poem. I have seen references to it but never read the full poem until now. Yes, I think it rings true today, particularly if someone can accept the unvarnished truth. All cultures are not equal. Some are superior to others. Hierarchy is not a four-letter word.
RIP.
My information is it was SBS, but that’s just a strong rumour, not confirmed fact.
that reporter was in all likelihood not worth the loss of that commando’s hangnail
sad..very sad
Looks like a victory for the Taliban! We sacrifice two DECENT people to save one dirty JOURNALIST.
No, but "rank" is. As in, "rank order of dominance" -- which is the social order that our Patriots rebelled against in trhe 1770's, and which the Pioneers rebelled against when they crossed the Appalachian Mountains and passed out of contact with the old, "deferential society" of the Eastern Seaboard states. They would rather plunge into a wilderness and deal with the Creeks, the Shawnees, and the Hurons than suffer any longer the pretensions of lawyers, doctors, and businessmen with money in the bank.
That is your liberty heritage. Not primogeniture and social Darwinism, which is just the SOS from the last 8000 years.
The revolution of 1776 was against a crown, not against a hierarchy of ideas. The US is still fundamentally English, animated by ideas that only an English-speaking people could articulate and promote to regulate the affairs of its citizens. As for the people who colonized the Midwest and West, they colonized as English-speaking Americans, not Indians. Those pioneers might have lived simply, but they subscribed to a hierarchy of ideas that made superior to the Indians. And no apologies necessary for being superior.
I read today it was Royal Marines and Parachute Regiment flown in US craft (probably 160th SOAR).
Thanks.
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