Apparently, Robert Fisk doesn't have a monopoly on anti-West paranoia among British journalists. Reuters (no one here but us freedom fighters...) has reported that Yvonne Ridley, the woman who snuck into Afghanistan and was captured by the Taliban and later released, is accusing the CIA, or Mossad, or MI5, or somebody, she's not quite sure who, of plotting to have her shot for propaganda purposes. She says the Taliban released her because they caught on to the evil plot, but even though she's seen incriminating documents, she can't produce them. Maybe her donkey ate the evidence...

I could be kind and put it down to 'Stockholm Syndrome'... but more likely, she is just looking to pad out the inevitable book she is going to write and she needs to keep her face in the public eye. Just another mad cow... we have lots of them over here.