71.   Reporter Tasyeer Alouni became familiar to Arab viewers around the world, providing live reports from Taliban-controlled areas barred to most Western reporters.

72.   Speaking to Western reporters, the square-jawed paratrooper said not to worry about a new Cold War.

73.   The official Antara news agency on Wednesday quoted Benedictus Nahot Marbun as saying that Western reporters rely on secondhand sources to report on events in East Timor.

74.   The report could not be independently verified because the Taliban refuse to allow Western reporters into their territory.

75.   The Xinjiang foreign affairs office said Western reporters were not welcome because of ethnic tensions in the region.

76.   Three plainclothes security men pulled over a Western reporter riding in a taxi, waving assault rifles as they demanded identification.

77.   Three plainclothes security men pulled over a Western reporter riding in a taxi Wednesday, waving assault rifles as they asked for identification.

78.   Tribal claims could not be independently verified because the Taliban have refused to allow Western reporters into their territory.

79.   Western reporters at the scene said.

80.   Western reporters had been previously barred from the city by the Taliban.