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2011-09-09 Afghanistan

Nato-led forces killed BBC reporter in Afghanistan

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Posted by Besoeker 2011-09-09 01:43|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top

#1 Monsters!

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-09-09 03:08|| 2011-09-09 03:08|| Front Page Top

#2 Life is tough. It's tougher when you're stupid.

Posted by Guillibaldo Hatrack1304 2011-09-09 10:46|| 2011-09-09 10:46|| Front Page Top

#3 Isaf's findings concluded that Khpulwak, 25, was shot dead by an American soldier who mistook him for a suicide bomber.

Cry me a river. He might not have been a suicide bomber, but as an employee of the BBC he was effectively an insurgent.

Posted by Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2011-09-09 11:55|| 2011-09-09 11:55|| Front Page Top

#4 it's tougher when you're not following ISAF directives for non-combatant civilians and journalists

I wonder if the BBC bothers to ensure that their correspondents and contract personnel are aware of the ISAF directives.

Posted by Pappy 2011-09-09 14:16|| 2011-09-09 14:16|| Front Page Top

#5 In this case BBC = ?

Bloody Big Cartridge?

Bad British Casualty?

Bang! Bang! Cough!

(Any other interesting suggestions?)

Posted by Canuckistan sniper 2011-09-09 15:27|| 2011-09-09 15:27|| Front Page Top

#6 I can't be as cynical about Khpulwak's death. There is no evidence he was against NATO's presence. It seems like most educated Afghan's support at least some western presence. He reacted poorly by reacting at all and died for it.

Lesson learned. Get out the news on how Afghans are supposed to act (or not react) when soldiers are storming in w/ guns drawn.

Posted by Eohippus Phater7165 2011-09-09 15:35|| 2011-09-09 15:35|| Front Page Top

#7 There is no evidence he was against NATO's presence.

Sorry, EP, I gotta disagree with you on that one. He worked for the BBC. That's the modern equivalent of a Frenchman in 1940 working as a stringer for Radio Berlin.

Posted by Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2011-09-09 19:47|| 2011-09-09 19:47|| Front Page Top

#8 Ricky bin Ricardo, given the unemployment situation over there, I suspect he worked for every news organization that would hire a local with some English skills. It's my understanding that, except for regional bureau managers, locals are paid by the assignment, rather than being put on salary. I've always had the feeling, f'r instance, that most of those NPR local colour pieces are done by expat wives with literary pretensions while their husbands are working overlong at the office, again. I could, of course, be wrong.

Posted by trailing wife 2011-09-09 20:41|| 2011-09-09 20:41|| Front Page Top

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