NATO Troops Free Abducted New York Times Reporter Stephen Farrell In Deadly Early Morning Raid
Wednesday, September 09, 2009
Wednesday, September 09, 2009
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NATO troops have freed Stephen Farrell, a New York Times reporter, who was kidnapped last Saturday along with his Afghan interpreter Mohammad Sultan Munadi by the Taliban in northern Afghanistan... They were abducted Saturday while reporting on the aftermath of a NATO air strike in the northern province of Kunduz. At least three were killed in the early morning raid including Mr. Munadi who sadly was shot dead as he ran for safety... A British soldier and one civilian were the two others killed in the raid.
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Mr. Farrell has been kidnapped one time before... back in 2004 if I’m correct, while reporting near Fallujah, Iraq.
NATO troops have freed Stephen Farrell, a New York Times reporter, who was kidnapped last Saturday along with his Afghan interpreter Mohammad Sultan Munadi by the Taliban in northern Afghanistan... They were abducted Saturday while reporting on the aftermath of a NATO air strike in the northern province of Kunduz. At least three were killed in the early morning raid including Mr. Munadi who sadly was shot dead as he ran for safety... A British soldier and one civilian were the two others killed in the raid.
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Mr. Farrell has been kidnapped one time before... back in 2004 if I’m correct, while reporting near Fallujah, Iraq.
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TimesOnline.co.uk has this informative report up on their website this early Wednesday afternoon and it starts off like this... Gordon Brown approved a mission to rescue the British journalist Stephen Farrell in which a member of the Special Forces was killed this morning, The Times has learnt... Plans for the raid, in which Farrell’s Afghan interpreter, a civilian and dozens of Taleban fighters were also killed, were drawn up by British Special Forces commanders in Kabul during a weekend of secret planning... Lieutenant-General Jim Dutton, a Royal Marine and deputy commander of NATO’s International Security Assistance Force, headed the team and Mr. Brown, David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, and Bob Ainsworth, the Defence Secretary, were kept informed of what was being planned... The Director Special Forces, a major-general who cannot be identified, has a direct phone link to the Prime Minister and would have informed Mr. Brown in person of the risks involved. Whitehall sources confirmed that Mr. Brown had given his approval for the rescue mission to go ahead...
Read the rest at link below...
Gordon Brown ordered mission to free kidnapped reporter Stephen Farrell
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Post update:
Thursday, September 10, 2009
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Our friend, Amy Procter at ‘Bottom Line Up Front’, brings us this informative report. Be sure to click it out at link below...
Gordon Brown Botches Rescue of NYT Reporter, Killing British Special Forces and Afghan Translator
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TimesOnline.co.uk has this informative report up on their website this early Wednesday afternoon and it starts off like this... Gordon Brown approved a mission to rescue the British journalist Stephen Farrell in which a member of the Special Forces was killed this morning, The Times has learnt... Plans for the raid, in which Farrell’s Afghan interpreter, a civilian and dozens of Taleban fighters were also killed, were drawn up by British Special Forces commanders in Kabul during a weekend of secret planning... Lieutenant-General Jim Dutton, a Royal Marine and deputy commander of NATO’s International Security Assistance Force, headed the team and Mr. Brown, David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, and Bob Ainsworth, the Defence Secretary, were kept informed of what was being planned... The Director Special Forces, a major-general who cannot be identified, has a direct phone link to the Prime Minister and would have informed Mr. Brown in person of the risks involved. Whitehall sources confirmed that Mr. Brown had given his approval for the rescue mission to go ahead...
Read the rest at link below...
Gordon Brown ordered mission to free kidnapped reporter Stephen Farrell
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Post update:
Thursday, September 10, 2009
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Our friend, Amy Procter at ‘Bottom Line Up Front’, brings us this informative report. Be sure to click it out at link below...
Gordon Brown Botches Rescue of NYT Reporter, Killing British Special Forces and Afghan Translator
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