Wednesday, 03 March 2010
An Afghan security guard pushes a photographer of French news agency Agence-France Press (AFP) away from a blast site in Kabul January 17, 2009. A suicide car bomb killed four Afghan civilians and wounded 13 more in an attack outside a U.S. military base and the German embassy in the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Saturday, officials and witnesses said. A U.S. military statement said previously that two U.S. troops were killed and 12 wounded, but the spokesman said the statement was erroneous. REUTERS/Ahmad Masood
Afghanistan Bans Live Reporting on Terror Attacks
The Afghan intelligence service on Tuesday 2 March said it will no longer allow journalists to cover live insurgent attacks for fear that such broadcasts will encourage rebels to, well, rebel – or add legitimacy to their cause. Actually, the Associated Press, which learned about the new ban from Afghanistan’s National Directorate of Security, quoted directorate spokesman Saeed Ansari as saying that during an attack last week “television footage from the scene provided insurgents with tactical ...
