A British soldier, an interpreter and two civilians were killed in a dawn raid to free Stephen Farrell, the reporter held captive by Taliban militants.
STEPHEN FARRELL
Gunmen had seized Mr Farrell and his interpreter, Sultan Munadi, on Saturday while they were working in a village south of Kunduz. Mr Munadi, a father-of-two, died in a hail of bullets. Farrell was unharmed but another man and a woman were killed in the crossfire and as he left, Farrell said he saw the body of his colleague. He said: “He was lying in the same position as he fell. That’s all I know. I saw him go down in front of me. He did not move. He’s dead. He was so close, he was just two feet in front of me when he dropped.”
Gordon Brown has praised the "greatest courage" of the soldier, believed to be a paratrooper, who was killed in the operation. Announcing the death of the British solder, the Prime Minister said his thoughts were with man's family and said his bravery would not be forgotten.
Farrell, 46, was kidnapped en route to the site of a controversial Nato airstrike on two hijacked fuel tankers in Kunduz province four days ago. It is the second time Farrell has been kidnapped. In April 2004, while on assignment for The Times, he was kidnapped at gunpoint by bandits near Fallujah in Iraq.
I haven't posted anything for the last couple of days because nothing awful had happened to Brown, which would have pleased me greatly, and nothing else had happened to make me angry enough to write about it. True to form, though, McFuckwit hasn't kept his incompetent hands away from trouble for long.
Stephen Farrell, a reporter for the New York Times was repeatedly warned that this area in Kunduz province was crawling with Taliban after the NATO airstrike on two fuel tankers there four days ago but he chose to ignore those warnings and go there anyway and was kidnapped, because of his own arrogance/stupidity, along with his interpreter. This man has been kidnapped before in Iraq so has already gone through the experience of being held hostage - one would think, not unreasonably, that he should have learned a valuable lesson from his abduction in Fallujah and take advice from the people who knew the situation in Kunduz better than he did.
Although negotiations were well under way and a deal to release this "serial" hostage had almost been reached, McDoom then decided to jump in with all of his usual finesse, (probably in a bid to ingratiate himself with Obama because of his previous double-dealing fuck-up over the Lockerbie bomber), and order a raid to free Farrell which resulted in the death of a British soldier, the interpreter and two other innocent civilians.
Farrell got himself into that mess and it should have been left to the negotiations to get him out of it, if possible - other than that, he'd asked for it and should have been left to face the consequences of his foolhardiness. Brown's was a typical knee-jerk reaction from the man whose mental stability has come under even more scrutiny and suspicion over the last few days and has resulted in the unnecessary deaths of four people.
Someone in the lily-livered Labour Party needs to find the courage to relieve Brown of his job before he can do any more damage, especially if the recent reports about his taking of banned anti-depressants are true.
Stephen Farrell, a reporter for the New York Times was repeatedly warned that this area in Kunduz province was crawling with Taliban after the NATO airstrike on two fuel tankers there four days ago but he chose to ignore those warnings and go there anyway and was kidnapped, because of his own arrogance/stupidity, along with his interpreter. This man has been kidnapped before in Iraq so has already gone through the experience of being held hostage - one would think, not unreasonably, that he should have learned a valuable lesson from his abduction in Fallujah and take advice from the people who knew the situation in Kunduz better than he did.
Although negotiations were well under way and a deal to release this "serial" hostage had almost been reached, McDoom then decided to jump in with all of his usual finesse, (probably in a bid to ingratiate himself with Obama because of his previous double-dealing fuck-up over the Lockerbie bomber), and order a raid to free Farrell which resulted in the death of a British soldier, the interpreter and two other innocent civilians.
Farrell got himself into that mess and it should have been left to the negotiations to get him out of it, if possible - other than that, he'd asked for it and should have been left to face the consequences of his foolhardiness. Brown's was a typical knee-jerk reaction from the man whose mental stability has come under even more scrutiny and suspicion over the last few days and has resulted in the unnecessary deaths of four people.
Someone in the lily-livered Labour Party needs to find the courage to relieve Brown of his job before he can do any more damage, especially if the recent reports about his taking of banned anti-depressants are true.
Fucking brilliant, Gordon, you twat!
