ALMOST AS BAD AS GITMO


Idiot Italian journalist Daniele Mastrogiacomo, kidnapped two weeks ago while seeking to interview Taliban officials, has been released. His captivity was, well, stressful:

He said his Afghan driver had been decapitated in front of him by their Taleban guards.

"I saw him being decapitated, it was horrific," he told Italian TG3 television.

"I was shaking. Obviously I thought 'it's my turn now."

His release appears to have been part of a prisoner swap:

One Taleban leader, military commander Mullah Dadullah, told Reuters by satellite phone from an undisclosed location that Mr Mastrogiacomo had been freed after Afghan authorities released five senior Taliban officials, including his own brother.

Mastrogiacomo seems just a tad overvalued.