From: "Mina Kumar" <wejazzjune at hotmail.com> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com Subject: Re: NC gets personal Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2001 14:56:26 -0500
speaking of which, I happened to come across this item:
The world comes full circle in its irony when it comes to Afghanistan, now being carpet-bombed by the U.S. Bombs and land mines are the only expensive items found in that country today. In a series of articles Janet Wilson in the New York Post (1987), charged that Dan Rather and Mike Hoover, anchor and cameraman of CBS, had repeatedly ``aired fake battle footage and false news accounts'' of the Afghan War in which Afghan Mujahideen performed as actors in sequences purporting to show rebel advances against the Soviet invaders, such as blowing up electric lines leading to Kabul. It was revealed that scenes of Mujahideen stalking enemy positions and blowing up a mine were acted out and filmed in the safety of a Pakistani training camp.
http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/2001/10/24/stories/05242524.htm