Reporters on the Job.(WORLD)

From: The Christian Science Monitor | Date: October 3, 2002 | Copyright information

* TRADING PLACES: Reporter Philip Smucker met the subject of today's story last April (page 7), while staying at a guest house at the governor's compound in Zabul Province in southeastern Afghanistan. Mohammad Tahir said that he had just finished a stint as a spy for US Special Forces, and was looking for a less dangerous lifestyle. "He was nervous that former senior Taliban officials in the area might come after him. We were headed to Kabul, so he jumped in the back seat of our car," says Philip.

He spent a few nights sleeping on the floor of the house the Monitor rents in ...

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