Several residents said that vanquished Congolese soldiers were looting shops on their way out of town. A band of fleeing soldiers commandeered a car that had been rented by a team of Western journalists and threatened the journalists at gunpoint to drive them west, away from the rebels. At one Goma hotel, the manager demanded payment for the room up front.I SO should've been a foreign correspondent.
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
The perils of reporting from Congo...
The New York Times' man in Congo seems to have been carjacked by Congolese soldiers.
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The Hell you say! Stay in the U.S.
Your Mom promises she would inflict serious bodily injury on you to keep you from going to a combat zone!
You soooo asked for that remark from mom!
She doesn't realize that she wouldn't know I was in a war zone until she got a postcard from, say, Kabul.
I'd know--you wouldn't be able to resist bragging about being a foreign correspondent!
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