Afghanistan, a lawless country and lawless it is determined to remain

Wish the NY Times had helped to try to bring this journalist to the USA on refugee status. We are bringing in utter illiterates but so many like this man are bypassed.  So sad!  Or, foolishly, he might have thought he would do a load of good by staying put in his hellhole. I hate it when intelligent, educated people are killed.

Mokhtar Amiri writing at GuardianUK:
 ....  Afghan journalist  Noor Ahmed Noori found dead in Helmand province.
Body of former New York Times journalist, working for radio station in Afghanistan, found burned and mutilated inside a bag.
The burned and mutilated body of an Afghan journalist has been found in a plastic bag behind a car salesman's yard in the capital of Helmand province, local officials said.

It was an ominous attack for an area that has become a focal point of the insurgency, and seen rising violence in recent years, but where the last murder of a journalist was five years ago.

Police are investigating the killing, said Abdul Ahad Choopan, spokesman for the provincial police chief.

"When we found the body around 7pm yesterday we thought there was a bomb inside the bag. We asked our engineers to check, but when they opened the bag it was the body of the journalist."

Noor Ahmed Noori worked for Radio Busd, and until last year had also worked for the New York Times....