{"id":2255,"date":"2010-09-22T13:07:07","date_gmt":"2010-09-22T13:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2255"},"modified":"2010-09-22T13:07:07","modified_gmt":"2010-09-22T13:07:07","slug":"michael_yon_is_back_in_afghani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2255","title":{"rendered":"Michael Yon Is Back In Afghanistan Reporting On What He Sees"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Michael Yon is an self-funded reporter who has been reporting from Iraq and Afghanistan since December 2004.  He is a former member of the U. S. special forces and has generally been embedded with the military while doing his reporting.  He was disembedded earlier this year due to a disagreement with General McChrystal.  He is now back in Afghanistan and posting at his website, Michael Yon<\/span><\/a>.  Below are two of his recent Facebook posts.  <\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

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Please don’t forget us! Flew this morning from Farah Province to Zaranj, capital of Nimruz Province. My good friend Steve Shaulis and I were heading out along the Iranian border to check on some projects he is working, and so I needed to go “low profile.” Had to leave the big cameras behind and take only a pocket job. First we met with the Provincial Governor who was very happy with Steve’s work. After the governor meeting, we checked on a women project that Steve has been working. A handful of women were making carpets (in various projects around Afghanistan, Steve sometimes employs up to 50,000 Afghans). The women were fine with my publishing their photos. Before we left, they pleaded with Steve, “Please don’t forget us. Please don’t abandon us. Please remember us and do not abandon us.” It was sad scene. Steve kept saying, “Don’t worry. I told you before I wouldn’t forget you and I haven’t, right? Don’t worry. I will not forget you.” Still they kept saying, “Please don’t abandon us.” I was a bit saddened after seeing that. I noticed voting ink on at least two hands. After that we headed into the desert on a long drive along the Iranian border. That was an adventure.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

By: Michael Yon<\/span><\/a><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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We visited a new bridge in Farah with the Mayor. The bridge, paid for by USAID, cost almost $59,000. The Mayor and some of the people were very happy. As we were on the bridge, school let out and the boys (all boys) bolted out of that school like it was on fire. Was hilarious how fast they ran away, but some …saw us and ran over. Meanwhile, the Mayor said that before the bridge, four kids had drowned trying to cross. (Afghanistan has massive water problems — too little, or way, way too much.) The boy with the blue shirt had the drawing of the girl in one of his books.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Michael Yon is one of the few sources I trust on Afghanistan.  I will be posting his stories from time to time in order to keep readers of this blog informed as to what is going on with the war in Afghanistan.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Michael Yon is an self-funded reporter who has been reporting from Iraq and Afghanistan since December 2004.  He is a former member of the U. S. special forces and has generally been embedded with the military while doing his reporting.  … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}