Taliban authorities inexplicably failed to spot the 185 cm. tall cross-dressers
"What we're seeing now is the lack of good leakers. You go to the Pentagon and you talk to your sources. They won't talk to you on the phone any more. They want you to physically visit with them. They don't want to sit and talk with you in their office, they want to walk along hallways with you and fake as you ask them questions that can be answered very quickly."
—The Australian. Sally Jackson reports on the difficulties of reporting a war with no front, run by a government with zipped lips, in competition with big-spending media peers.'