Two French journalists, Herve Ghesquiere and Stephane Taponier, who were held hostage by the Taliban for 18 months together with their interpreter, Reza Din, were freed a couple of days ago.
CNN coverage of the event talked about how remarkably good the journalists looked. The release did make for a good story, but it would have been better if it had been filled with accounts of water-boarding or bondage or “naked ridicule” by short, ugly women with menacing, bleating trained goats, ready to attack and brutalize.
The journalists should be grateful that they were hostages of barbaric “Moslem” fundamentalists who are holding secret talks with the Americans on the future of Afghanistan. Things could have gotten really ugly if they had been caught by civilized American Abu Ghraib personnel of the female persuasion.
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