I watched a programme on BBC 1 a few weeks ago, I think it was called inside the Taliban or something like that. A journalist actually went and talked to some of the members and it was in one of the Talibans hideouts, in Afghanistan. If a normal British journalist can go in and talk to them , how come the military can't go and find them? I'm no expert on the war or anything but that programme puzzled me.
2007-01-25 03:41:48 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in News & Events ➔ Media & Journalism
I know it was arranged and they didn't stumble on it, but surely if it is possible, the military could get in there somehow too. I know I'm no expert but don't people gain knowledge by ASKING questions, this is what this site is for.
2007-01-25 03:50:53 · update #1
I didn't see a blindfold on that reporter either, he was taken by car to the destination with no blind fold on and he was lead up a mountain side and he could see everything.
2007-01-25 03:52:37 · update #2
It is easy for a journalist. He just goes to a village and passes out the news that he is unarmed and is offering money to collect news and pictures. He is then taken blind folded by Taliban scouts.
Further more, the army knows where the Taliban are and they fight them, but the Taliban are in very inaccessible mountains and they hit and run. The army cannot go where the tanks cannot go and the Taliban are not wearing uniforms. It is a guerrilla war of hit and run.
By the way, the programme made me realise that the army has not got an earthly chance of winning.
2007-01-26 07:31:53 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A lot of times the journalist will be blindfolded until they get to the hideout so that they dont' know where they are. In addition to that, they never stay in the same spot, they're always moving around.
2007-01-25 11:47:39 · answer #2 · answered by Ed K 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Firstly this journalist would've been blindfolded, secondly The Forces have found many terrorists, but it is a maze out there, when these people know the caves like the back of their hands.
2007-01-25 12:50:35 · answer #3 · answered by soph 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're on the verge on realizing what is going on. The corporate sweatshoppers and oinkonomic fascists need to keep the Tail Bunnies as a threat to frighten the American people into voting themselves into slavery.
Look back in history to just after World War II. We had nukes, Russia didn't. But Truman and his Masters needed to create an expanded Soviet threat to intimidate the American people and turn us into paranoids begging our leaders to protect us. These traitors put a moral costume on it all with the pseudo-pacifist idea that we Americans trusted in the Communists to let the Eastern Europeans vote them out. Instead of saying, "Yeah, right," in referring to the Communists, we should have said, "Yeah, right," in referring to the pose of appeasement by the military-industrial-media-educational complex.
2007-01-25 12:12:28 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. You are definitely not an expert. Because they want to push their agenda on the world, they allow journalists to come - actually most likely that journalist was brought to the location with his eyes blindfolded....When they bring our soldiers to their camps blindfolded - they usually cut those soldier's heads off...
That is the difference.
2007-01-25 11:46:38 · answer #5 · answered by Michael R 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I assure you the journalist didn't just accidentally stumble upon them, or go looking for them. That encounter was likely arranged weeks in advance, with very specific terms and conditions.
2007-01-25 11:46:04 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The BBC make sure they do not show the Taliban in a bad light when they report back for the UK. It's their way of getting a good story and also they do appear to be against this country. I believe they are irresponsible and negative.
2007-01-25 11:48:57 · answer #7 · answered by Plato 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋
The armed forces are probably looking in the wrong place the meeting is just as likely to have taken place in Bradford.
2007-01-26 08:21:41 · answer #8 · answered by geoff t 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It didn't show the Taliban in a good light, the journalist was kakking his pants! Interesting program, brave journo (politics aside).
its not all a conspiracy to brainwash us either! people, dont be so paranoid!
hold on, someones knocking......
2007-01-25 11:54:56 · answer #9 · answered by spacegoblin 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
because they arrange it before hand the taliban will check theyre not army collect them from a secet location and then blindfold them
2007-01-25 12:12:30 · answer #10 · answered by liam0_m 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋