Journalists killed in Afghan ambush

November 19, 2001 7:20 PM

Journalists killed in Afghan ambush
posted by Oxydude (13 comments total)

Gee, Mr. Flynt, this might be a good reason not to send reporters to Afghanistan.
posted by spyke at 7:45 PM on November 19, 2001

They should have signed up for this.
posted by swift at 8:48 PM on November 19, 2001

Journalists being killed in a war zone is not news....
posted by ParisParamus at 8:50 PM on November 19, 2001

Journalists killed by stray bullets and bombing is not news, although a decent news service would include an article abut such deaths as a tribute. Journalists being treated as the enemy and murdered at point blank range is most assuredly news.
posted by raysmj at 9:23 PM on November 19, 2001

To me it's the unasked question: "who do you think did this?" Bin-Bin and the Taliban are the boogyman now, but that is a rough piece of turf.
posted by Mack Twain at 9:29 PM on November 19, 2001

bandits. it sounds like bandits, since they stole all their belongings.
posted by rebeccablood at 10:50 PM on November 19, 2001

Maaaan. I wanted to make the Larry Flynt joke.
posted by thirteen at 11:02 PM on November 19, 2001

Journalists being killed in a war zone is not news....

And it's not even the first time this war. (Interview with Paul McGeough, one of the the survivors.)
posted by eoz at 4:46 AM on November 20, 2001

Mark Jurkowitz, Boston Globe: "In contrast, the Department of Defense reports only four US military deaths related to the war, and none of those occurred inside Afghanistan... ''I would think that anybody who is over there is pretty brave,'' said Atlantic Monthly editor Michael Kelly, who as a freelance reporter traveled with coalition troops as they liberated Kuwait City during the Gulf War. 'With all the bad press the press gets ... a lot of people spend many years of their lives risking their lives.'"
posted by Carol Anne at 5:21 AM on November 20, 2001

I doubt this is the Taliban. They're freaks, but they're predictable freaks, and they seemed concerned with their PR. This sounds like the work of some al-Qaeda members; there have been murdered aid workers in some Muslim war zones, which now look more and more like al-Qaeda inspired ruthlessness.

Several of the al-Qaeda training camps and bases were in the Jalalabad-Kabul corridor.
posted by dhartung at 8:37 AM on November 20, 2001

the journalists going to afghanistan, pakistan, etc...remind me of the kids who send videos to jackass.

except they are adults and are getting paid.
posted by Qambient at 10:45 AM on November 20, 2001

>the journalists going to afghanistan, pakistan, etc...remind me of the kids who send videos to jackass.

What's your point? That they should stay in New York and trust the Defense Department press release?
posted by nance at 2:09 PM on November 20, 2001

One of them was a friend of a friend of my boyfriend's (convoluted, yes, I know). My boyfriend's friend could have been in Afghanistan if he didn't leave his cameraman job.

Scary.
posted by jetgrrl at 12:20 AM on November 21, 2001