Michael Yon

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• Hostages

  
  Big Hollywood — Authority: 797
  16 November 2009 When New York Times journalist David Rohde was kidnapped last year in Afghanistan, the company engaged in a painstaking effort to squash the story. They succeeded in persuading major media who learned of the kidnapping to keep quiet. The cover-up was so good that a New York Times reporter I ...
  1 week ago

• Bugs Bleat - - GCF: Yes, Sir!

  
  Bugs Bleat — Authority: 115
  Volume 11, Issue 46 Friday, November 13, 2009 Hello All, My three months of 12 hours a day x 7 days a week working the Lion Oil turnaround are over. I’ve gone back on 40 hour work weeks at Lion so Annette moved me back home to Magnolia and I’m commuting to El Dorado to work. About the only thing I miss ...
  2 weeks ago

• Ambush of the Common Sort

  
  Big Hollywood — Authority: 797
    08 November 2009 Got a ping today about an attack on the road between Jalalabad and Kabul.  It’s a dangerous road and I don’t like to drive it.  The source has always been reliable, so I pinged Tim Lynch (who often is on that road), and Tim just sent these pics and a quick narrative.  (Unedited, and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Three Journalists Confirm Restaurants in Kabul Closed to U.N. Staff

  
  Brave New Wave - Children of a Lesser Revolution — Authority: 432
  I would imagine the United Nations staff have been told that restaurants in Kabul all are off limits for security reasons, but what I liked most about this was the synergy between the three reporters using Twitter. Also notice Michael Yon’s statement that ‘ Kabul can be like a party town ‘ for contractors:
  3 weeks ago

• Ghost Ship

  
  ricketyclick — Authority: 432
  Not a special effect: [click for full size.] It’s an aircraft, possibly a Predator, moving through a sandstorm. Discussion and other cool photos of the “Kopp-Etchells Effect” here.
  3 weeks ago

• Smithsonian Air&Space on Kopp-Etchells Effect

  
  Big Hollywood — Authority: 797
  November 04, 2009 Helo Halo Luminous halos twirled above a Boeing CH-47 Chinook on a recent night around 11:30 p.m. local time at Forward Operating Base Jackson in Sangin, Helmand Province, Afghanistan, as helicopters ferried casualties and supplies in and out of the base. The photographer was independent ...
  3 weeks ago

• Fort Hood: Wise Words From Michael Yon

  
  Big Hollywood — Authority: 797
  Wise, wise words from  Michael Yon :  Now is not a time to psychoanalyze the attacker by using a media-supplied telescope that already said he was dead, and that there were multiple attackers.   Media: STOP , please.   There will be time to pursue answers and justice after Christmas.   We must remember that ...
  3 weeks ago

• Great Britain Loses One of its Finest

  
  Big Hollywood — Authority: 797
  Olaf in Combat. 03 November 2009 British soldiers at war are an incredible group.  Courageous, competent, and committed in very difficult conditions.  An email came today from London, from a BBC correspondent who has been to Afghanistan saying that Staff Sergeant Olaf Schmid had been killed. Olaf and his crew ...
  3 weeks ago

• Michael Yon’s War on the New York Times

  
  Stop The ACLU — Authority: 695
  Did the New York Times pay for the release of David Rohde? That’s what war correspondent Michael Yon has been saying on Twitter . The point of his tweets was not to expose the Times but to comment on what he thought was irresponsible journalism in their coverage of hostages captured by pirates. Some of what he ...
  3 weeks ago

• Staff Sgt Olaf Schmid: Great Britain Loses one of its Finest

  
  Fitaloon at MicroShaft — Authority: 120
  Michael Yon has a pictorial tribute to Staff Sergeant Olaf  Schmid.Micahel Yon had this to say of himCourage is as common as boots among these soldiers, but Olaf stood out even in that company.  You could tell that Olaf knew his business from mean experience, and that he was ready for battle.  His mind was ...
  3 weeks ago

• From Michael Yon’s Blog: ‘Bad Medicine’

  
  Chris Navin — Authority: 126
  Full article here . A good article to get a sense of what’s going on in Afghanistan for our combat troops; how the war looks from someone embedded with NATO forces on the ground. “Michael Yon is a former Green Beret, native of Winter Haven, Fl. who has been reporting from Iraq and Afghanistan since December ...
  3 weeks ago

• Did the New York Times Lie about Paying a Ransom for David Rohdes Release? [Ransom]

  
  Gawker — Authority: 863
  Blogger Michael Yon —one of the few people to break the New York Times news blackout over the kidnapping of reporter David Rohde in Afghanistan— reports via Twitter that former CIA operatives paid a ransom to secure Rohdes release . Yon is apparently incensed about a Times report two days ago on the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Did The NYT Secretly Pay Millions To Get David Rohde Released?

  
  Mediaite — Authority: 797
  Did the New York Times pay millions to get reporter David Rohde released from Taliban custody last June? That is what former special forces veteran turned freelance journalist Michael Yon is saying via his twitter . # Kept it all quiet for NYT. Now why are the NYT endangering British hostages in Somalia? ...
  3 weeks ago

• Afghanistan: Electrification Effort Loses Spark

  
  Big Hollywood — Authority: 797
  Anybody seen a better future around here? 21 October 2009 In 2008, I was trekking in the Himalayas in Nepal preparing for a return to Afghanistan. A message came from a British officer suggesting to end the trip and get to Afghanistan. Something was up, and I didn’t bother to ask what. Days of walking were ...
  5 weeks ago

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