July 30, 2004

Breaking news

Tashkent, Uzbekistan

This afternoon the US and Israeli embassies in Tashkent were bombed, along with the prosecutors office. Within hours it was being reported worldwide by hundreds of news sites.

The source of many of those reports was Jo, one of the people I had crossed the Torugart Pass with. At dinner that night she told of how she was at home in the shower when a local radio station reported the news. She called in the details, as best she could remember them, to her office, BBC monitoring in Central Asia. From there they were dispatched back to the UK and around the world.

So, from a shower in a Tashkent apartment to you. In just a hour or two.

Posted by David at July 30, 2004 08:05 PM