David Rohde, reporter, escapes from Taliban after 7 months...

[Sloth]

David Rohde escaped from the Taliban after 7 months imprisonment.

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 made their way to a nearby Pakistani Frontier Corps base and on Saturday they were flown to the American military base in Bagram, Afghanistan.

If any of you read Michael Yon, he wrote a brief thing about it - quite a nice story.

Also add that he was held by the Bosnian Serbs after he was trying to find the mass graves - then Rohdes is an amazing reporter.

While working for The Christian Science Monitor in mid-1990s, he helped expose the ethnic cleansing of Muslims in Bosnia. During one trip, he found evidence of mass graves. When he returned secretly and alone to find more evidence, he photographed piles of clothing and human bones near an earthen dam, but was detected and imprisoned by Bosnian Serb authorities. He was interrogated for ten days and accused of being a spy for the Bosnian Muslims.

 

[Tagaziel]

That's quite impressive.

I never knew he exposed the genocide, thanks for posting this.

PS: Christian Science, heh.

 

[Eejit]

Christian Science Monitor? Sounds like he had it coming!

 

[Sloth]

I should add then that he has been working for the Times for the last years and was part of the team that won the Pulitzer Prize - he was just kidnapped at the time

 

[Raziaar]

Completely awesome that he managed to get out with his life. Good for him.

 

[Tagaziel]

I'd like to say that I'm glad he didn't lose his head and figured out a way to escape.