September 12, 2007
From asap, The Associated Press
"You need to know what roads you can or can't be on."
That's how AP Kabul correspondent JASON STRAZIUSO sums up the danger of traveling in much of southern and eastern Afghanistan -- the part of the country where the Taliban has its greatest influence.
Contrast that with Kabul, where he says you can move around pretty safely -- if you don't mind stopping at checkpoints "every couple hundred yards."
During a recent visit to AP headquarters in New York, Straziuso sat down for a conversation with AP Deputy International Editor NICOLAS B. TATRO about what it's like to live in the Afghan capital, and to report on the country -- both from Kabul and on trips to the countryside.
Find out what they talked about -- including the name of Straziuso's favorite Kabul eatery -- in this asap podcast.
http://asap.ap.org/data/interactives/_news/podcast/0912asap_tatro.mp3
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