Able to observe the Taliban close up for an extended period, a New York Times reporter discovers that they aren't actually the moderate nationalists that his own paper may have led him to believe they were. "7 Months, 10 Days in Captivity," by David Rohde in the New York Times, October 17 (thanks to Sounder):
Over those months, I came to a simple realization. After seven years of reporting in the region, I did not fully understand how extreme many of the Taliban had become. Before the kidnapping, I viewed the organization as a form of "Al Qaeda lite," a religiously motivated movement primarily focused on controlling Afghanistan.Living side by side with the Haqqanis' followers, I learned that the goal of the hard-line Taliban was far more ambitious. Contact with foreign militants in the tribal areas appeared to have deeply affected many young Taliban fighters. They wanted to create a fundamentalist Islamic emirate with Al Qaeda that spanned the Muslim world.
And beyond. As Beitullah Mehsud put it in 2007, "We will continue our struggle until foreign troops are thrown out. Then we will attack them in the US and Britain until they either accept Islam or agree to pay jazia (a tax in Islam for non-Muslims living in an Islamic state)."
Had become? Still doesn't quite get it.
"Then we will attack them in the US and Britain until they either accept Islam or agree to pay jazia (a tax in Islam for non-Muslims living in an Islamic state)."
....or until the Infidels decide enough is enough and decide to fight more than they do now...
You're right, Wellington, he doesn't.
"But I also saw how some of the consequences of Washington’s antiterrorism policies had galvanized the Taliban."
According to him, it's still our fault.
"Over those months, I came to a simple realization. After seven years of reporting in the region, I did not fully understand how extreme many of the Taliban had become."
after seven years in the region?....and still not a clue...yep you can tell he is a reporter for the Duranty Times...
Yes, you're right, Wellington. He still doesn't get it! Amazing how resistant deeply held prejudices are to change, even in the face of the most direct evidence to the contrary, isn't it?
sounds like hes going to get fired when ever he gets away from the Taliban for not sticking with the nyt left wing stand
Watch ... the idiot will still not believe his own eyes.
He'll make up an excuse for why they are really nice guys after all.
Have a look at Glasov's book and related material.
The Taliban might be slipping, it took seven years to capture a MSM reporter....oh wait, he was with the New York Times...he's on their side...
Do New York Times reporters experience a separate reality than the rest of us?
Rohde is one of the New York Times criminals, one of Sulzberger Goebbelses who slandered and demonized the entire Serbian people and aided in Serbia's crucifiction. By his own boast here, he played a leading role in the "Srebrenica massacre" hysteria, most of which turned out to be a lie. The "dear friend" of his, Carlotta Gall was every bit as repugnant. Don't expect from them to tell the truth about real atrocities committed on Serb civilians by Muslim Bosnian General Naser Oric and his 28th Bosnian Army division and irregular Srebrenica jihadists right there, in Srebrenica, for years before the "massacre". Those future Bosnian "victims" destroyed nearly 150 Serb villages all around Srebrenica and massacred their populations. An entire Serb country destroyed! Even NATO's puppet "International Criminal Tribunal" in the Hague issued an indictment that described torture and murder of captive Serbs by the Srebrenica Muslims: pulling teeth with rusty pliers, beating people to death with rifle butts and clubs, etc. And the reason the "tribunal" even bothered to issue an indictment at all was because Oric himself recorded videos of his atrocities and eagerly showed them to the media boasting of his exploits.
And guess what? The prostitute "tribunal" sentenced Oric to 2 years (!) of prison, but when Bosnian Muslims protested, it reversed itself and fully acquitted the mass torturer and murderer! What we have here is total political corruption of justice by the Western democracies totally subservient to the Muslims. And Kosovo has shown that there is no evil the Western democracies will not do to please the Muslims.
The dastardly Rohde got it too easy with the Taliban. I wish he got a reward he deserves from the Muslims for his services to the Global Jihad.
Ruslan Tokhchukov, EnragedSince1999.