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NYT Reporter: I Was Assaulted by Pakistani Agents
ABC News ^ | December 26, 2006 | Gretchen Peters

Posted on 12/26/2006 11:33:37 AM PST by ricks_place

New York Times correspondent Carlotta Gall tells ABC News she was assaulted by plain-clothed government security agents while reporting in Quetta, a Pakistani city near the Afghan frontier where NATO suspects the Taliban hides its shadow government.

Akhtar Soomro, a freelance Pakistani photographer working with Gall, was detained for five-and-a-half hours. According to Gall, the agents broke down the door to her hotel room, after she refused to let them enter, and began to seize her notebooks and laptop. When she tried to stop them, she says one of the men punched her twice in the face and head.

"I fell backwards onto a coffee table smashing the crockery," she recalled in a written account of the incident. "I have heavy bruising on my arms, on my temple and my cheekbone, and swelling on my left eye and a sprained knee."

Gall says the agents accused her and Soomro of trying to meet the Taliban. They identified themselves as working for Pakistan's Special Branch, an undercover police department, but Gall said other local reporters identified them as employees from one of the country's two powerful spy agencies: Inter-Services Intelligence or Military Intelligence.

(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.abcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; akhtarsoomro; carlottagall; dostum; journalists; massoud; media; msm; newyorktimes; nytimes; pakistan; sandygall; soomro; taliban
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To: ricks_place

The Press in general seems to think that they are not "ordinary people", that they are above it all. Much as Doctors or Priests and Nuns have a "calling", Reporters think they too have a sacred calling... that they are Historians, above the petty bickering and bartering in the world. When they arrive at the scene, combatants are to shoot around them, not question their story or sources.
And then they get these rude awakenings... beaten up, head sliced off, shot on the battlefield.


21 posted on 12/26/2006 12:00:51 PM PST by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
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To: PA Engineer

GUILTY!


22 posted on 12/26/2006 12:08:15 PM PST by cj2a (When you're pathetic, but you don't know you're pathetic, that's really pathetic.)
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To: ricks_place

This shouldn't be news to reporters.

CNN suppressed news reports of abuse and torture under Saddam Hussein to maintain their Baghdad Bureau.

Reporters don't tell all that they know and they know that non-Western governments do not respect a free press.


23 posted on 12/26/2006 12:08:57 PM PST by weegee
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To: ricks_place

We need to get those guys visas. I wouldn't mind having them come over here, giving them a picture of Frank Rich and a coupla Benjamins and letting their imaginations go to work, if you get my drift.


24 posted on 12/26/2006 12:09:15 PM PST by domenad (In all things, in all ways, at all times, let honor guide me.)
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To: ricks_place

WHEN YOU GO TO THESE PLACES YOU TAKES YOUR CHANCES. IF SHE DOESNT LIKE TAKING CHANCES ,SHE SHOULD LOOK FOR A NEW LINE OF WORK.


25 posted on 12/26/2006 12:11:11 PM PST by sgtbono2002 (The fourth estate is a fifth column.)
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To: Lazamataz

Carlotta Gall

26 posted on 12/26/2006 12:12:16 PM PST by ricks_place
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To: ricks_place
Carlotta Gall

She's got a lotta gall passing herself off as a woman.

27 posted on 12/26/2006 12:17:25 PM PST by Lazamataz (That's the spirit.)
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To: ricks_place

NYT culture of audacity and arrogance...they are the news..


28 posted on 12/26/2006 12:20:40 PM PST by citizencon
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To: yobid

Sorry, did not realize the snake story from "Natural Born Killers" was verboten. I though it was kind of appropriate on this thread.


29 posted on 12/26/2006 12:22:24 PM PST by L98Fiero (A fool who'll waste his life, God rest his guts.)
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To: Lazamataz

WOW! That picture.I jumped like Cramer did when he saw the "breathtaking' baby.


30 posted on 12/26/2006 12:30:55 PM PST by Digger (If RINO is your selection, then failure is your election)
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To: PA Engineer
It was the first reported incident of Pakistani agents belting a female reporter.

Hmmmmmm...She visited a land where men take absolutely no shite from in your face femme-nazi women and Harvard lawyers are to find.

Welcome to the Muslim world Carlotta Gall.

31 posted on 12/26/2006 12:33:49 PM PST by Major_Risktaker
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To: ricks_place

Whats more likely is that Pakistan has skeletons in its cupboard to hide. They wouldn't want western media getting a clear wind of the support for the Taliban within the pak establishment.
Daniel pearl too was beheaded because he discovered too much about the links between al qaeda and the pak intelligence agency ISI.


32 posted on 12/26/2006 12:33:59 PM PST by voletti (Awareness and Equanimity.)
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Until I see photos of the alleged perps allegedly attacking the alleged reporter, I am unable to believe the alleged attack took place by the alleged assailants.


33 posted on 12/26/2006 12:36:11 PM PST by GretchenM (What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul? Please meet my friend, Jesus)
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To: ricks_place

...two peanuts walking down the street, one was assaulted.


Doogle


34 posted on 12/26/2006 12:40:41 PM PST by Doogle (USAF 68-73...although it's been said many times many ways Merry Christmas tooooo you)
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To: ricks_place

35 posted on 12/26/2006 12:47:09 PM PST by Gritty (The NY Times' perversion of intellect and morality stain the soul and honor of the nation-Vanderleun)
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To: Lazamataz

YOu just hit on the head LOL!

Who wouldn't want assault NY Times reporter ROFL


36 posted on 12/26/2006 12:54:38 PM PST by SevenofNine ("Step aside Jefe"=Det Lennie Briscoe)
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To: ricks_place

Recent and archived news articles by Carlotta Gall of The New York Times. (there are hundreds of them)

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/g/carlotta_gall/index.html


37 posted on 12/26/2006 1:01:52 PM PST by Vn_survivor_67-68
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To: ricks_place

What's the frequency, Gretchen?


38 posted on 12/26/2006 1:06:14 PM PST by rfp1234 (Custom-built for Bill Clinton: the new Toyota Priapus.)
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To: PA Engineer

--On the left photographed with mom.--

With an equine face like that, she's got to be related to Jean Francois Kerree.


39 posted on 12/26/2006 1:08:43 PM PST by rfp1234 (Custom-built for Bill Clinton: the new Toyota Priapus.)
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To: ricks_place
Did she try to assert her First Amendment rights?

No wait... that only works here in the USA.

-PJ

40 posted on 12/26/2006 1:14:49 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (It's still not safe to vote Democrat.)
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