I never heard or saw anything about this story maybe because it’s from Dec. 27th, 2005. I don’t know about you but this appears to me to be really sleazy by NBC News. I just wonder if NBC had an anchor attacked like ABC with Woodruff if they’d be quite so complicit in meeting with a terrorist murderer (I know redundant) as they are with this filthy drek of humanity. You can bet your Press Pass that if someone in this NBC Investigative Unit had been kidnapped they most certainly would have expected the SEALS to come in and save their sorry butts. They disgust me.

NBC News interviewed Ismail in August and again this month. Both times, the Taliban made sure we could not provide their location to the U.S. military. An NBC producer was taken on a confusing seven hour odyssey to an unknown location, where Ismail then appeared.

Ismail boasts that in June, he deliberately laid a trap for American forces.

Ismail: We certainly know that when the American army comes under pressure and they get hit, they will try to help their friends. It is the law of the battlefield.

A tape obtained by NBC News showed what appears to be some of the battle, and the terrorists? unsuccessful attempt to coax a Navy Seal to surrender. When the U.S. military sent in a rescue team, Ismail?s men were waiting with a rocket-propelled grenade, downing the helicopter, and then spreading out recovered weapons and hi-tech equipment. Later, they displayed captured communications equipment and weapons.

Ismail also predicts more bloodshed to come.

NBC News provided details of the interview to U.S. intelligence. Senior officials say his claims are consistent with what they know about the battle, and they have no reason to believe that the man is not Commander Ismail.

I’m sure NBC was able to rationalize their meeting without working with the US Military on this and thus letting them get this high level Taliban leader.

Oh and that’s a direct quote above, I myself know enough that SEAL is all in caps. Apparently, NBC doesn’t give a rip how accurate or inaccurate their military reporting would be.

There’s also a video.

An interview with a Taliban commander – Lisa Myers & the NBC Investigative Unit – MSNBC.com

h/t to Steve O from Comments at Froggy Rumination

Thanks to Mudville Gazette Open Post on Feb. 17th