Commandos Free Times Reporter From Captors in Afghanistan

nytimes.com

Just a headline so far...

 

From Reuters:

 

Excellent.

 

Great news. Hopefully a few Taliban bastards went to meet their virgins, too.

 

Fuck. Interpreter killed during rescue.

Times article here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/09/world/asia/09rescue.html?hp

 

Stephen Farrell's first hand account:

http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/09/the-reporters-account-4-days-with-the-taliban/?hp

 

Nice column by Farrell's colleague Rosie DiManno of the Toronto Star

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/693048

I've worked closely with Farrell. I know he would have treated Munadi, a freelance Afghan journalist just returned to him homeland after obtaining a master's degree in Germany, as an equal.

Ribbing from colleagues aside, Farrell is an expert at assessing and managing risks. He is cautious — within the context of his profession — and methodical.

In 2003, at the start of the "Shock & Awe'' bombing campaign that launched the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, Farrell and I burned rubber driving 15 hours from Amman, Jordan, to Baghdad. Before setting out, Farrell — then with The Times of London — was careful to advise military contacts that we were on the highway, so that our vehicle — with a bright orange tarp on the roof – would not be hit in an airstrike. American Special Forces tracked us all the way.

 

Goddamn.

What a meticulously described horror story.