Survivor's Tale - Afghanistan

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June 2008
Internationally acclaimed Photographer Stephen Dupont narrowly escaped a suicide blast in Afghanistan. After 20 years of recording the plight of others, he was now turning the lens on himself.

Just after the explosion, Dupont pulled out his camera and began capturing the chaos. He filmed himself, blood running down his face, as he searched for his lost colleague, not knowing if he was dead or alive. With such media-targeted attacks increasing, what will happen if journalists stop covering conflict-zones? "We wont be able to bring back the message or tell both sides of the story...there'll be no story to cover".

Channel: News & Politics
Uploaded: June 9, 2008 at 2:07 pm
Author: journeymanpictures

Length: 00:23:56
Rating: 4.97
Views: 18560

Tags: Afghanistan Stephen Dupont tribes ethnicities Taliban heroin suicide bombing poppy fields Journeyman Pictures

Video Comments:
sheild34 (September 3, 2008 at 1:06 am)
u are a good man for speaking out in this way .i know i have been to ur country and whitnessed things for my self .u arte totally right
rowshan22 (September 1, 2008 at 2:04 pm)
fuck pashton kochi donkey
kacha098 (August 31, 2008 at 7:31 am)
You are like a cancer in Afghanistan. But we'll cure Afghanistan and Pakistan from it. Your Wahabi ideology will not survive there and even not in your homeland. Enshallah.
sheild34 (September 1, 2008 at 1:15 am)
what does wahabi mean.please explain.and where r u from?
kacha098 (September 2, 2008 at 10:57 pm)
Look it up what wahabism is.
arabic100Percent (September 2, 2008 at 9:25 am)
kacha098: Wahabi started in Saudi arabia, but its more developed in Pakistan and Afganistan, in fact you made it much worse !
look at Wahabia in Saudi arabic, people are living like Kings here, but your wahaby has made people poor!
kacha098 (September 2, 2008 at 11:03 pm)
I'm not a Wahabi. Arabs especially Wahabi Arabs have nothing to do in Afghanistan. You misuse Pashtoo kindness for your evil wahabi goals. Actually you live like parasites in Pashtoonistan.
arabic100Percent (September 3, 2008 at 11:00 am)
Wahaby idea was presented to you, you take it or leave it, not one arab forced the Wahaby ideology on you, not even binladen, you took it and you wanted it. no one hit you or forced you to take it!
kacha098 (September 3, 2008 at 8:28 pm)
arabic100 who brought Wahabism to Afghanistan? Wasn't it you? Zawahiri and Bin Laden are living like parasites in Pashoonistan buying their obedience with secular money. The same Pashtoon will sell them at the end and you can see how much worth is Wahabism to them.
sheild34 (September 3, 2008 at 1:15 am)
so wahabi ideology is sunni muslim ideology .so u do not agree with the religeous fundamentalist that go to afghan from pakistan and fight and die .if i am right i respect u .there is not many muslims who will speak out in this way.i wish this kind of message gets resonated throughout the world so these foolish war mongers dont think they are supported by every muslim in this world.and so my people dont think all muslims are the same.i however know they are not