Why do we see live reports from everywhere on earth but never Afghanistan?

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http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/news/international/Afghan_soldier_kills_two_NATO_troops_at_protests.html?cid=32164562

Feb 22, 2012 - 06:33

Afghan soldier kills two NATO troops at protests

By Mirwais Harooni and Amie Ferris-Rotman

KABUL (Reuters) - An Afghan soldier joined protests on Thursday against the burning of copies of the Koran at a NATO base and shot dead two foreign troops, Western military sources said, as the Taliban urged security forces to turn their guns on foreigners.

Protests against the burning of copies of Islam's most holy book drew thousands of angry Afghans to the streets, chanting "Death to America!" for the third consecutive day in violence that has killed 11 people and wounded many more.

The Taliban urged Afghans to target foreign military bases and kill Westerners in retaliation for the Koran burning at Bagram airfield on Tuesday, later directing its plea to the security forces, calling on them to "turn their guns on the foreign infidel invaders," it said on its site shahamat-english.com.

In a demonstration in eastern Nangarhar province on Thursday, an Afghan soldier turned his gun on NATO soldiers, local officials and western military sources said. A provincial spokesman said the soldier then escaped.

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I see Richard Engel reporting usually live from just about every hot spot on earth. But I never see him reporting from Kabul. Has anyone? Wonder why this is? Too dangerous? No good hotels?

Don

[rfranklin]

1. Hotels are not good...

and the food is not Cordon Bleu.

[leveymg]

2. We see what they want us to see.

They'd rather not take the focus off the violence in Syria and Ahmadinejad scowling in front of scary looking lab equipment.

[trumad]

3. Probably to dangerous.

[FarCenter]

4. News and Videos from Afghanistan

http://topics.cnn.com/topics/afghanistan

Taliban urges Afghans to 'kill invaders'

Two US troops killed as Taliban calls for Afghans to attack foreign forces over reported Quran burning.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2012/02/201222364927819925.html

[Proud Public Servant]

5. Here's an expert answer

I've actually worked with journalists in Afghanistan. There are plenty of them there (every major English-language news organization maintains a permanent presence there), and there's a good hotel (though most stay in guest houses leased by their outlets). The problem is infrastructure. There's a decided the lack of internet, period, let alone internet speedy enough for live transmission and there's a real difficulty with satellite uplink, particularly outside of Kabul (you will see live reports from Kabul itself, but Kabul is rarely where the news -- by which I mean the spectacular violence that our media calls news -- happens). A related issue is that, since most of the "news" happens outside of Kabul, it's frequently over before reporters can get to the scene (if they can get there at all; many parts of Afghanistan are simply inaccessible for either security or infrastructure reasons).

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6. I don't think Engel has to answer to you.

He's gone in harm's way plenty.

I guess you missed him showing Rachel Maddow around Kabul last year.