should journalist Stephen Farrel have been rescued at the cost of a child's life?

DublinDes

The so called daring rescue of journalist Stephen Farrell is been protrayed as another great plucked from the jaws of death storyline by the british army with unfortunately a british soldier and an interpreter Sultan Munadi also killed - implicitly by the Taliban.But ofcourse, things are far from been the usual 'heros' saving the world from terrorism stuff.
Appearentl according to TIME magazine's website " It is unclear whether Sultan Munadi was shot by his British rescuers or by the Taliban. Locals tell TIME that a woman and child in the house were killed along with a Taliban commander named Baz. " Now you have it,, a woman and child were killed, maybe it was the rescuers or the Taliban member Baz ( which seems unlikely to me as the woman and child were in the house with him ) - and hardly a word in the news etc about it.

A Britsh combatant is killed by an Afghan combatant -and he and his fellow chums are the ' heros' while the child and woman are ignored. Why do people make excuses for the murdering scum ?


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Latchy

News report had it that negotiations were underway to free him before the rescue attempt .Sounds like another cock up

DublinDes

Latchy wrote: »

News report had it that negotiations were underway to free him before the rescue attempt .Sounds like another cock up

Yes indeed Latchy, but sure it couldn't be the mighty British army could it ?? Look at this report from Al Jazzeera, sounds like the militarily infallible SAS to me " Mohammad Sami Yowar, a spokesman for the Kunduz governor, said British special forces had dropped down from helicopters on to the house where the two journalists were being kept. " Naturally of course we'll have the usual crowd on BSing that this was a Para mission, the Fog of War, Taliban using human sheilds. How a woman cowering in a room with a bay can be ' mistaken ' for a terrorist excuse is beyond any any decent human being - unless of course your a British army " our boys are right even when their wrong " brigade etc



http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/09/20099974850934601.html

DublinDes

Latchy wrote: »

News report had it that negotiations were underway to free him before the rescue attempt .Sounds like another cock up

According to TIME - " Negotiators were "optimistic" that Farrell and Munadi would be freed within days, without payment of a ransom. Hostage-taking is a long-standing Afghan practice and almost always ends with captives being freed in exchange for money after days or weeks of haggling. But in this case, sources tell TIME, the senior Taliban commanders of Kunduz were "acting reasonably" and seemed willing to hand the reporter and his aide over without a payoff. "

But of course the SAS/Paras?brits wanted to make a big ' rescue ' Bullsh!t out of it - and the y f**ked up of course and we'd have endless movies, docementery's/books etc about the magnificant SAS/PAras/Britsh army for ever and ever and ever :rolleyes:


http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1921263,00.html

Latchy

DublinDes wrote: »

But of course the SAS/Paras?brits wanted to make a big ' rescue ' Bullsh!t out of it - and the y f**ked up of course and we'd have endless movies, docementery's/books etc about the magnificant SAS/PAras/Britsh army for ever and ever and ever :rolleyes:

Agreed , i never bought into the 'our boys over there crap ' although the average brit soldier probaly sees through all the hype/propaganda as much as anybody ,it's just that they play along with the game of soldiering ,if only to make their own situation , both in the war zone and at home more comfortable .

iceage

I think you'll find that the general concensus is that the raid to rescue said journo wasn't worth it. You must agree though that if this guy hadn't decided to go there in the first place none of this would have happened now would it.

The death of his collegue Sultan Munadi and the lose of an innocent mother and child is the tragedy, the Soldiers involved in the raid including the one who died knew the risks.

As an afterthought, Stephen Farrell travels on a dual British/Irish passport. Anyone know where he comes from?

Local-womanizer

The Taliban landed at this village and demanded to be let into the houses with the hostages.It is very possible that the Taliban could have killed the women and child.

If the rescue force killed the women and child I'am sure it wouldent have been on purpose,just an unfortunate consequence of war.

I have heard some anaylists say that the main mission was the death or capture of a taliban leader,the hostages were also a priority but the coalition were always going to attack/rescue.

Poccington

This thread is pointless.

If you want to do a bit of Brit bashing, go over to politics.ie

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