MEDIA DEATH WATCH IN ACTION: Bill Roggio reports from Kandahar:

If this is a false report, as it likely is, the propaganda machine of al-Qaeda and the Taliban has succeeded yet again in manipulating the Western media into doing their bidding.

That’s not terribly hard to do. He also reports: “Elsewhere in southeastern Afghanistan, there is real news to report, and it is the Taliban that is taking the brunt of the casualties.”

UPDATE: The kidnap story turns out to have been bogus.