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September 11, 2009

Max Hastings: I would have said no to rescue bid for Farrell

By Dominic wireposts

A succession of military sources have lined up to rubbish former Times journalist Stephen Farrell for inadvertantly putting British solidiers lives at risk by allowing himself to be taken hostage in Afghanistan.

Former Daily Telegraph editor Max Hastings even suggests today that had he been Farrell’s boss he would have been against launching a raid to rescue him:

“In my days as a newspaper editor, had I been asked whether such a raid should be launched to liberate a correspondent whom I employed, I would unhesitatingly have answered: No.”

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