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Defend America on Friday, October 30, 2009 12:13:17 PM
Where Rohde Leads
The story of a reporter kidnapped by the Taliban and what it reveals.
By Clifford D. May
Almost a year ago,
New York Times correspondent David Rohde was abducted by the Taliban.
I was in Afghanistan at
the time and, like many Westerners in the country, I heard about it but
agreed not to write about it. Publicity, it was thought, could increase
the danger Rohde faced. Even so, over the months that followed, many
people figured he would not be seen again — except, perhaps, on a
videotape with hooded jihadis ecstatically applying a butcher knife to
his infidel throat, as they had to
Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
But
Rohde survived seven months and ten days in captivity — briefly, in
Afghanistan, then in the Taliban-controlled areas of Pakistan — before
managing to escape. His account of this period,
published in The Times last week, is riveting. It is revealing, too — though sometimes in ways Rohde does not articulate and may not even intend.
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