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News & ArtsWednesday, September 9, 2009
Media / War The Dangers of Interpretation
Posted by Brendan Kiley on Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 7:52 AM
A reporter for the New York Times was kidnapped by the Taliban and rescued by British special forces—but his interpreter, Sultan Munadi, was killed.
It was mentioned in the Morning News, but the heart of the story is at the bottom, from a Times blog post Munadi wrote earlier this month:
"... being a journalist is not enough; it will not solve the problems of Afghanistan. I want to work for the education of the country, because the majority of people are illiterate.""And if I leave this country, if other people like me leave this country, who will come to Afghanistan?" he wrote. "Will it be the Taliban who come to govern this country? That is why I want to come back, even if it means cleaning the streets of Kabul. That would be a better job for me, rather than working, for example, in a restaurant in Germany."
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