Travelling with the Taleban (BBC embedded with Taliban)

BBC ^ | 10-26-06 | BBC

[Niteranger68]

I will celebrate his death!

[Nathan Zachary]

looks like someone is tangled up in the first pic, upper right hand side.

[Zhang Fei]

There is no army on earth as mobile as the Taleban.

The thing I like about Brit journalists is that they will spout nonsense on stilts in really campy tones, with a look of unshakeable confidence. This should be on Monty Python. The sad thing is that this is an actual news report. Anglophiles in America have always loved the BBC for the announcers' crisp accents, which many mistake for intelligence and meticulous research. Let's just say the scales fell from my eyes a while ago.

[cpdiii]

I hope this piece of garbage stay close to them, very close. With a little luck the last thing he sees in life is the F16 that drops a precision munition on him and his "brothers."

[Pox]

Unless British law begins to move against such traitors, the good citizens of England will rightly conclude they have no choice but to do so themselves....justice in the dark of night.

Highly unlikely. The average British male has been effectively de-balled and will have no compulsion to do anything other than accept their fate stoically, IMO.

[Cicero]

David Loyn

BBC developing world correspondent
David Loyn is the BBC's developing world correspondent.

Prior to this he was acting defence correspondent.

David joined the BBC as a TV News Reporter in 1987.

In his early years he reported the first free elections in Poland, the fall of Berlin Wall and the Romanian Revolution, as well as spending long periods as acting Moscow correspondent.

After a short spell as a political correspondent in 1993 he became South Asia correspondent based in Delhi.

He reported frequently from Kashmir, and Sri Lanka, and followed the rise of the Taleban in Afghanistan. His crew were the only journalists with the Taleban when they took Kabul.

After returning to Britain he was acting defence correspondent in 1997.

The following year he focussed on Kosovo in a series of reports culminating in the discovery of a massacre. That report won the Royal Television Society award for Foreign News, and David was also made RTS Journalist of the Year in the same awards, for a portfolio which included Kosovo and a film for the BBC's Newsnight programme from Hurricane Mitch.

David currently focuses on international development as the BBC's developing world correspondent. His report for BBC Four News in 2003 exposing illegal logging in Cambodia, resulted in the first-ever withdrawal of a logging licence by the Cambodian government.

He continues to report from conflict zones, spending more than two months in Afghanistan after 9/11, and two months in Iraq during the war in 2003.

Before joining the BBC in 1985 David was named Sony Radio Reporter of the Year, for a series of reports from India following the death of Indira Gandhi.

[Cicero]

So, he was embedded with the Taliban when they took Kabul, and he was also responsible for the fake ethnic cleansing stories that led to the invasion of Kosovo.

Great record. Plus he's saving the trees in Southeast Asia.

[caisson71]

Where was the MSM, BBC and CNN when Hitler needed them?

[INSENSITIVE GUY]

I wonder who kills the most soldiers,BBC or CNN?Maybe somebody will wise up and finally realize it makes sense to "shoot the messenger"!

[TruthRespecter]

TO: Military Intelligence oriented FReepers,

Am I too naive to hope that a good 'ole fashioned western-civilization-loving UK spy (posing as a BBC reporter) could be among these Taliban embedded reporters?

(or maybe I shouldn't have brought it up)

[GOP_1900AD]

Bring back the old UK treason laws .... as well as the penalties. I am imagining trap doors opening and a rope going taught.

[1forall]

What do the rules of engagement say about killing journalists if they are embedded with the enemy? Or (not) protecting them if they are embedded with friendly forces?

Are they considered "civilians" and untouchable or "armed combatants" because the pen is mightier than the sword?

[csn vinnie]

How does this guy transmit his stories? Is there a way we could triangulate it?

[massgopguy]

Wait until these guy outlive their usefulness to the Taliban.

[atomic conspiracy]

Rope, traitor, lamppost.

Some assembly required.

[finnman69]

exclusive my ass, the Taliban are engaging in a PR campaign using the willing MSM whom want the Taliban to win

Here is the NY Times's Sunday magazine cover story.

In the Land of the Taliban
A journey through the tribal borderlands of Afghanistan and Pakistan, where drug smuggling, anger at warlords and age-old resentments could be preparing the way for a restoration of the radicals.

[atomic conspiracy]

Could be. A team of camera-toting Al Qaeda snipers was wiped out in Anbar the other day and the Al Qaeda pig in charge of distributing sniper video was smoked in a US raid a few days earlier.

He who ears, let him hear.

[finnman69]

David Loyn

[Mac1]

as a Brit, this really pisses me off. I keep telling myself to not be surprised at anything the BBC does or says, but they still get to me.

[atomic conspiracy]

Yikes! What a mug! Just imagine how ugly he'll be after a JDAM lands on his sleeping bag.