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Canadian journalist Kathy Gannon shot & wounded in Afghanistan

Canadian reporter Kathy Gannon was wounded in an attack by a rogue Afghan police officer today. She's in stable condition and expected to recover. Anja Niedringhaus, the photographer Kathy was working with was killed. We spoke to Kathy Gannon back in 2006 about her many years covering Afghanistan....
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The Current24:14Kathy Gannon was one of the first Western journalists let back into Afghanistan by the Taliban after 9/11
Canadian reporter Kathy Gannon was wounded in an attack by a rogue Afghan police officer today. She's in stable condition and expected to recover. Anja Niedringhaus, the photographer Kathy was working with was killed. We spoke to Kathy Gannon back in 2006 about her many years covering Afghanistan.


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Bullet holes are seen in the car in which Associated Press (AP) photographer Anja Niedringhaus and Canadian
reporter Kathy Gannon were travelling when they were shot at today in Khost province. REUTERS/Stringer


Kathy Gannon was one of the first Western journalists let back into Afghanistan by the Taliban after 9/11


If you've read more than a handful of news stories about Afghanistan, you've probably read one of Kathy Gannon's. She's spent 18 years there for the Associated Press. She watched the Soviet army roll out ... the civil war take hold ... the Taliban seize power ... and the American army roll in. Covering the current Presidential elections wasn't supposed to be so dangerous.


Have a listen to Anna Maria Tremonti's full interview with Kathy Gannon from 2006 (above) or listen to a clip (below).




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