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2004-08-28 Afghanistan/South Asia

Balochistan not NWFP the real Taliban base

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Posted by Paul Moloney 2004-08-28 1:11:38 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 American journalist Scott Baldauf was not only able to speak with Taliban commander Maulvi Pardes Akhund but was allowed to observe him recruit Pakistani fighters in Quetta for cross-border attacks on American troops in Afghanistan

thanks a lot, Scott. Asshole

Posted by Frank G 2004-08-28 9:05:56 AM|| 2004-08-28 9:05:56 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Easy, frank... Look at this as an opportunity to confirm our analysis. besides, he's prolly gonna get the famous Nick berg treatment if he keeps poking around there. From what i can tell he's just a reporter actualy doing his job, not just hanging out in the capital city hotel rxmiting stringer copy.

Posted by N Guard 2004-08-28 9:56:15 AM|| 2004-08-28 9:56:15 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Journalist first, American second (or third or ....)

Mike Wallace school of ~~AntiAmericanism~~ Journalism

Posted by Frank G 2004-08-28 10:08:33 AM|| 2004-08-28 10:08:33 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 The author of this article has a great vocabulary! "Locus" & "facile" have me reaching for my dictionary. & the revelations of this Kapisthalam are shocking to me (Pakistani soldiers providing covering fire for retreating Taliban, trucks loading up Taliban, etc.!) This article is depressing, really. Frank G: I sorta agree that Scott Baldauf is an asshole for fraternizing witht the enemy, but as N Guard points out at least he's actually doing some good investigative journalism instead of reporting live via satellite from the roof of a swanky hotel in Islamabad and just copying whatever the AP wire tells him to say about the situation, which is exactly what the other 99.99% of journalists do (just mimick the AP wire.) Besides Frank G, these reporters such as Baldauf that go out into the field freelance provide two great benefits to our country's war on terrorism: 1. it allows our government to recruit the reporters as intelligence agents or send in intelligence agents with bogus credentials and 2. our intelligence agencies get a lot of their information from open source materials, i.e. t.v., newspapers, magazines, radio, etc.

Posted by Kentucky Beef 2004-08-28 2:39:08 PM|| 2004-08-28 2:39:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Paki anti-terror policy is as follows: make a couple of show arrests to keep the American money flowing in, while maintaining their "Pakistan in Depth" policy that led to the 9-11 massacres. I would have let the Northern Alliance conduct a scorched earth policy against the Talibanis, while turning the Afghanistan-Pakistan borders into a B52 turkey shoot.

Posted by Anonymous6199 2004-08-28 5:03:37 PM|| 2004-08-28 5:03:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 KB and NGuard- I acknowledge that these guys present info we mght not get elsewhere, a good thing. If we start recruiting reporters to do infiltration, all their lives are forfeit, another acknowledged bad thing. Ergo, they have to portray antiAmerican attitude to get the "story". My bitch is when they start believing that, and don't report, say, an attack that kills Americans or allies, so as to keep their journalistic cred.

Posted by Frank G 2004-08-28 5:19:43 PM|| 2004-08-28 5:19:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Like it 6199... Consider a name.

Posted by Shipman 2004-08-28 5:36:53 PM|| 2004-08-28 5:36:53 PM|| Front Page Top

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