Geraldo Rivera

Geraldo Rivera has left a cushy talk show on CNBC to report for Fox News from Afghanistan. The superstar war correspondent talked to TIME from Taloqan:

Q: What's your impression of the country?

A: This is worse than Beirut, man. I was there. This is worse than Bosnia, worse than Kosovo, worse than Colombia. This is the worst devastation of infrastructure I've ever seen.

Q: How much danger are journalists in?

A: I believe the eight dead journalists are policy; I don't think they're random. [The defeated Taliban] are filled with a bitter hatred of the West, and they...

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