Word: etabari
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...Again in 1984, Rather narrated a segment claiming to depict 4,000 Afghans fleeing their villages near Kabul out of fear of Soviet attacks. Etabari told the Post that the film was shot miles away at the Afghan-Pakistani border...
...broadcasts in November 1984, Rather introduced videotape purporting to show mujahedin rebels blowing up electric-power pylons in the "largest sabotage operation of the war." According to the Post, a former Afghan rebel named Etabari, who was Hoover's translator, said the photographer arrived twelve days after the event and persuaded rebels to restage the incident...
...Another segment supposedly showed rebels stalking government guards and blowing up a mine. The Post says Etabari claims the footage was faked by Hoover at a camp in Pakistan. The Post adds that CBS in 1987 aired a tape of an exploding red toy and described it as a bomb planted by Soviet soldiers. An unidentified BBC producer called the "bomb" a phony device made for Hoover. Whatever the truth of these allegations, they are a reminder that skepticism is an editor's best -- and perhaps most reliable -- friend...
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