How is lLyse Doucet getting out !

[Gary C]

Anyone else wondering how Lyse Doucet and the others are getting out of Afghanistan ?

They must be brave and nuts in equal measure still being there tonight.

[Blackpuddin]

Yep

[vaud]

Journalists tend to be ok. BBC have journalists in all sorts of tricky places.

The Taliban will also see them as useful if they can "use them" to share the Taliban point of view.

[Johnnytheboy]

Probably just threatens to keep speaking in that godawful voice and the Taliban escort her to the border.

Edited by Johnnytheboy on Monday 30th August 22:44

[vaud]

Interestingly, "Doucet reported from Pakistan in 1988, and was based in Kabul from late 1988 to the end of 1989 to cover the Soviet troop withdrawal and its aftermath."

[TwigtheWonderkid]

I never liked Kate Adie.....wherever she went there was trouble!

[andy_s]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

I never liked Kate Adie.....wherever she went there was trouble!

[Cold]

Maybe ask in the Afghanistan thread?

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

[Ronstein]

Kate Adie was keynote speaker at one of the last conferences I went to before Covid, absolutely fascinating, incredibly brave person.

[catso]

Johnnytheboy said:

Probably just threatens to keep speaking in that godawful voice and the Taliban escort her to the border.

[vaud]

anonymous said:

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Quite. From the Kate Adie school of tough journalists.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

anonymous said:

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Yes, she's Canadian and has an accent...shoot her!

I can't believe she's 62. She looks younger, even with the stress she's lived under. The woman has ovaries of steel.

[CloudStuff]

vaud said:

anonymous said:

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Quite. From the Kate Adie school of tough journalists.

Why?

[vaud]

CloudStuff said:

Why?

Sorry, why what? Could you elaborate?

[Gary C]

anonymous said:

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True

I'm sure she could by now have taken up a 'chief editor' position and pontificated from the studio, but chooses to be on the ground.

While the Talib command might be ok with her and other journalists, the grunts on the streets are probably less controlled and they wont have any protective backup any more I would think. Now the airport it out of action for the foreseeable, exit would have to be by road and that would be very dangerous. Are they going to wait until some flights are allowed in ?

Hats off to them.

(but she does have an odd accent )

[irc]

All she needs to do is go to the border and leave. That ex army guy who took a convoy of 400 Afghans to the border was allowed to cross. The Afghans weren't.

"But on Thursday morning Mr Slater was arrested by the Taliban and thrown in prison, where he was questioned about members of his staff, who are single women, staying in hotel rooms without husbands.

He was then released and told he may travel across the border with one assistant, but the rest of his staff must now return to Kabul."

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/09/02/taliba...

[GadgeS3C]

I've long been of the opinion that a foreign crisis is not a crisis until it's reported by Kate Adie, Orla Guerin or Lyse Doucet. Then it's serious.

Total respect to all of them and other war zone journalists.

[Biggy Stardust]

I always thought IL Duce was someone completely different.

[Eric Mc]

GadgeS3C said:

I've long been of the opinion that a foreign crisis is not a crisis until it's reported by Kate Adie, Orla Guerin or Lyse Doucet. Then it's serious.

Total respect to all of them and other war zone journalists.

Orla Guerin would make the reporting of a glass of spilled milk seem like the end of humanity.

[GadgeS3C]

Eric Mc said:

Orla Guerin would make the reporting of a glass of spilled milk seem like the end of humanity.