Freed journalist ignored ‘very strong advice’

BRITISH foreign secretary David Miliband has acknowledged that freed Irish journalist Stephen Farrell had ignored “very strong advice” by travelling to the area of Afghanistan where he was kidnapped.

The operation to free the New York Times reporter left four people dead, including a British paratrooper.

Mr Farrell’s Afghan interpreter Sultan Munadi, and Corporal John Harrison, were killed in the pre-dawn raid on Wednesday.