Commandos Rescue Nyt Reporter Held In Afghanistan (ap)

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Stephen Farrell, a reporter for The New York Times.is shown in Iraq on July 16, 2007. Commandos freed the New York Times reporter Wednesday Sept. 9, 2009, after he was kidnapped by militants in northern Afghanistan last week, the paper said. (AP Photo/Markko Geogiev for the New York Times) MANDATORY CREDIT: Marko Georgiev for The New York Times -- NO SALES; NO MAGS: --AP – British commandos freed a New York Times reporter in an early Wednesday raid on a Taliban hide-out in northern Afghanistan. The journalist’s Afghan translator and one of the troops were killed in the rescue, officials said.

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