David Rohde's Great Escape and the NYT's Great Falsehood  In
Part Two of New York Times reporter David Rohde's account of his
captivity by the Taliban, we learn two things: 1) The Taliban
lies, and 2) it seems like the New York Times' public relations
professionals lie, too.  We've been waiting a long time for
Rohde's first-person account of his ordeal—we found it very
strange that he declined to comment to his own newspaper
immediately after his release—and we're glad he's writing it.
Yesterday he recounted his kidnapping, and today he tells of his
transfer into Pakistan's tribal region. (He also answers reader
questions—many of them quite hostile—here.)  Rohde was mostly
treated well by his captors—at least thus far in the
narrative—with some spoiled food and psychological torment being
the worst of it. His kidnappers played cruel tricks on him,
telling him at one point, for instance, that they were going to
kill his driver Asad in a week. Rohde—who felt a heavy
responsibility for the fates of Asad and Tahi