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From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 16:59:14 -0400
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 13:34:33 -0700 From: Brad Templeton <brad () templetons com> To: dave () farber net Subject: [kathryn () ksml com: reporters in N. Afganistan] User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Organization: http://www.templetons.com/brad A week old, but still amusing. The reporters become the story. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/artic es/A13847-2001Oct5.html By Peter Baker Washington Post Foreign Service^M Saturday, October 6, 2001; Page C01 ^M JABAL SARAJ, Oct. 5 If American troops even now are mounting a covert operation in the mountains of Afghanistan, they have done a masterful job of keeping hidden. Another invasion force from the West, however, has been a little less discreet. One interloper arrived by donkey over the Afghan mountains. Another sneaked into Taliban territory disguised as a woman, covered head to toe in a traditional burkha. Others convoyed for five days along bumpy roads straddling steep slopes, with both their vehicles and their sanity breaking down along the way. Once here, they have taken over houses, raided the bazaar and swamped the local economy with more dollars than anyone has seen in these parts since the days when the United States funded the guerrilla war against Soviet troops. They have set up ambushes to snare poor, bedraggled refugees, and enticed rebel troops at the sleepy front line into firing artillery shells at nothing in particular. The swarm and descent of the international media horde is never a pretty sight. <snip>
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