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| Afghanistan expels New York Times reporter |
| 2014-08-22 |
| [Iran Press TV] Afghanistan has ordered a New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... (NYT) correspondent to leave the war-ravaged country over his alleged links to spy agencies. On Thursday, Afghan Attorney General Mohammad Ishaq Aloko said Matthew Rosenberg's Tuesday article about the country's deadlock over contested results of the June presidential runoff vote was "contrary to the national interests, security and stability of Afghanistan," and ordered him to leave the country within 24 hours. "This is not the first time that this news hound has published propaganda, and it appears that he has links with intelligence and spy agencies," the attorney general stated. In his New York Times article entitled "Amid Election Impasse, Calls in Afghanistan for an Interim Government," Rosenberg wrote that Afghan government ministers and officials were threatening to seize power. Rosenberg is the first Western journalist to be expelled from Afghanistan since the Taliban were ousted in the 2001 US-led invasion of the country. |
| Posted by:Fred |