“I had reported many times on the kidnapping of foreigners in Gaza. Now, as I always feared it might, my turn had come.”
“Of course the Territorial Army is overstretched and there’s no doubt about it. The TA is too small - mobilising it at the pace that we are is ultimately going to break it.”
“I realise how totally unqualified I am to think about war. I don’t know what Myspace and Youtube are. In my generation they gave you a cheese sandwich and a tin hat. And you walked towards anybody who put a verb at the end of the sentence.”
Alan Coren, Radio 4: News Quiz, on the US Military banning
their soldiers from using certain Internet sites.
“It’s under more serious threat in fact I think than at any previous time because people are now saying: ‘You’re not needed. You’re an absurd anomaly. This idea of trying to sift out what has actually happened. What we want is people’s opinions about what has happened.’ And I think we are in danger. I never thought of myself as an endangered species before, but now I think probably, perhaps I am.”
BBC World Affairs Editor John Simpson on the role of the traditional correspondent
“Telling the story of what is happening in Iraq through a soldier’s eyes is a fraught project.”
Franklin Foer, Editor of the New Republic Magazine
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