{"id":304,"date":"2007-02-23T10:57:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-23T16:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=304"},"modified":"2007-02-23T10:57:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-23T16:57:00","slug":"james-bays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2007\/02\/james-bays\/","title":{"rendered":"James Bays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcaps\">O<\/span>ld hollow legs himself is alive and well, after becoming a brief guest of the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Taliban<\/span>. The <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Al Jazeera English<\/span><\/span> reporter found himself the story for a while, along with three Afghan colleagues:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/english.people.com.cn\/200702\/23\/eng20070223_351874.html\" target=\"_blank\">Afghan militants capture, release Al-Jazeera journalists<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Militants in Afghanistan&#8217;s southern Helmand province captured four journalists of Arab television network the Al-Jazeera and set them free after one day in captivity on Wednesday, a member of the team said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were on a road in Gereshk district when some masked and armed men took us to a village where hundreds of armed militants were present,&#8221; Ahmad Bukhari told Xinhua.<\/p>\n<p>The militants, he added, first took their cameras and other equipment but later on returned after investigation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;During the 26-hour in captivity, the militants provided food and treated well,&#8221; Bukhari said.<\/p>\n<p>Meantime, a man Qari Yusuf Ahmadi who claims to speak for the Taliban outfit said that the journalists were set free in line with the movement&#8217;s leadership decision.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>James files a typically understated report <a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/NR\/exeres\/B27A5D56-0E55-4EAA-8B88-F523D18D15F5.htm\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Old hollow legs himself is alive and well, after becoming a brief guest of the Taliban. The Al Jazeera English reporter found himself the story for a while, along with three Afghan colleagues: Afghan militants capture, release Al-Jazeera journalists Militants in Afghanistan&#8217;s southern Helmand province captured four journalists of Arab television network the Al-Jazeera and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[64,139],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalists","tag-al-jazeera","tag-al-jazeera-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}