David Rohde, a New York Times reporter who was kidnapped by the Taliban, escaped Friday night and made his way to freedom after more than seven months of captivity in the mountains of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Mr. Rohde, along with a local reporter, Tahir Ludin, and their driver, Asadullah Mangal, was abducted outside Kabul, Afghanistan, on Nov. 10 while he was researching a book. Mr. Rohde was part of The Times’s reporting team that won a Pulitzer Prize this spring for coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan last year.
Mr. Rohde told his wife, Kristen Mulvihill, that Mr. Ludin joined him in climbing over the wall of a compound where they were being held in the North Waziristan region of Pakistan. They found a Pakistani Army scout, who led them to a nearby army base, and on Saturday they were flown to the American military base in Bagram, Afghanistan…
Until now, the kidnapping has been kept quiet by The Times and other media organizations out of concern for the men’s safety…
Both Mr. Keller and Mr. Rohde’s family declined to discuss details of the efforts to free the captives, except to say that no ransom money was paid and no Taliban or other prisoners were released.
“Kidnapping, tragically, is a flourishing industry in much of the world,” Mr. Keller said. “As other victims have told us, discussing your strategy just offers guidance for future kidnappers.”
RTFA. Long, detailed account – not only of this adventure; but, of David Rohde’s dedication to good, traditional journalism. He’s had no shortage of despots and murderers to cover from Bosnia to Afghanistan.
There’s something fishy … errr … sea kittenish about this story.
Wasn’t there a unit episode like this?
Oh. Good. Now he has a much better book. Fool.
NYT is the Jihad journal, where all US secrets and strategies becomes known…They probably sent him away with gifts.
#3, Ayatollah Alphie,
You are an effen jerk!!!
The man and his friend were held for seven months and finally escapes. All you cab write is that “They probably sent him away”.
The man is a reporter. In case you don’t know what that means, it is a person who actually goes out into the world and finds out what is happening. FOX SPEWS doesn’t have any.
Again, and you wonder why everyone on this blog dislikes you.
#4
NY Times…. The paper who had the reporter making up stories a few years back??? The paper that has never supported a single conservative idea in the last twenty years? THAT NY Times?
#5, ideally, a “news” paper shouldn’t be actively supporting anybody’s ideas outside the editorial page.
Until now, the kidnapping has been kept quiet by The Times and other media organizations out of concern for the men’s safety…
LOL. Is this the Times that would publish any info about US intell ops regardless of how sensitive the info? How many solders or agents were “outed”?
#1
sea-kittenish….such a mental visual! LOL!!
Good for him. One of the last real reporters.
I know #10 and a few others understand about real reporting. As for the trolls, well – understanding would require reading. Reading might prompt thinking.
A couple of handicaps they’re not likely to overcome.
#1 – yer right.. what american would run away from free room and board these days?!?
I don’t know… I’m tempted to suspect he was a CIA plant, all along. And that’s REALLY why his capture was kept a secret. Writing a book? I doubt it. By the time he gets in published, who will care?
this story is complete bs.
Great for them and if fathers, a wonderful father Day.
Very happy to have them with their families.
Turns out, the inaccurate part is him being a NYT reporter:
http://www.pulitzer.org/biography/1996-International-Reporting
NYT reporters don’t have to leave their home to write international or national eyewitness reports…they are that good.
http://pulitzer.org/biography/1996-International-Reporting
#16
When was the last time you were in harm’s way?
By the way, sitting fat and happy in front of a half dozen Big Macs doesn’t count.
#18, Flat,
Ayatollah Alphie is in harm’s way every time he takes his life in his hands and attends church. All those atheists out there just a gunnen’ for him.
#16 / 17, Ayatollah Alphie,
AA, you are such a steooopid person. Ignorant, rude, hypocritical, blind, selfish, arrogant, and self absorbed among other less than desirable traits. The best way to sum you up to refer to you as the external extension of the colon. And I don’t mean sphincter.