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| NY Times Reporter Escapes Taliban After 7 Months |
| 2009-06-20 |
| Anybody heard of this guy? David Rohde, a New York Times reporter who was kidnapped by the Taliban, escaped Friday night and made his way to freedom after more than seven months of captivity in the mountains of Afghanistan and Pakistan. Mr. Rohde, along with a local reporter, Tahir Ludin, and their driver, Asadullah Mangal, was abducted outside Kabul, Afghanistan, on Nov. 10 while he was researching a book. Mr. Rohde was part of The Times’s reporting team that won a Pulitzer Prize this spring for coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan last year. Mr. Rohde told his wife, Kristen Mulvihill, that Mr. Ludin joined him in climbing over the wall of a compound where they were being held in the North Waziristan region of Pakistan. They made their way to a nearby Pakistani Frontier Corps base and on Saturday they were flown to the American military base in Bagram, Afghanistan. “They just walked over the wall of the compound,” Ms. Mulvihill said. The driver, Mr. Mangal, did not escape with the other two men. The initial report was that Mr. Rohde was in good health, while Mr. Ludin injured his foot in the escape. Until now, the kidnapping has been kept quiet by The Times and other media organizations out of concern for the men’s safety. Hell of a job suppressing the news MSM. Rest at link. |
| Posted by:ed |
| #5 Glenmore, as someone said, I try to be cynical, but it is so hard to keep up. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2009-06-20 23:27 |
| #4 Was a ransom paid in order for his escape to be allowed? Was the driver part of the kidnapping and not a kidnappee? Am I too cynical? |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2009-06-20 22:41 |
| #3 I wonder if the media lords would have been so fastidious about withholding damaging information if the victim had been an American soldier or, say, a missionary? (yes, I am joking but it isn't funny.) |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2009-06-20 22:39 |
| #2 S'okay. He'll always be with them in spirit... |
| Posted by: Pappy 2009-06-20 21:51 |
| #1 Um, 'we' have... it was reported on the 'Burg here. |
| Posted by: Free Radical 2009-06-20 21:01 |