Embedded journalists and an Afghan dam

March 2, 2007 at 11:18 am (Afghanistan)

I was listening to BBC radio 4’s ‘From our own correspondent’, which I love to hate (see Kate Adie, pictured), and a reporter was talking about ‘peace-keeping’ in Afghanistan. He did not say ‘I am embedded with British troops’, though he obviously was. He reported British soldiers’ valient struggle to ‘secure’ an important site for a dam that will give large (unspecified) numbers of Afghans access to hydro-powered electricity. The Taliban, apparently, was hindering progress again. Pure and simple. He did not mention contracts, he did not mention occupation. Military aggression cloaked in human rights. Well done the BBC.