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Accreditation. and now, you know, with this media accreditation, we re supposedly are are supposedly are able to move around easier. and avoid, you know, any aggressive confrontations with, you know, security forces or or or from their fighters in general. but we have yet to see, you know, things go smoothly. for example, you know, i ever had fighters tell me that i still cannot do my job. i still cannot take pictures in some checkpoints just because, you know, like doesn t matter if i have that media accreditation. and some recognize this. some don t. so it s a mixed bag. it s not complete it s not it s not a complete standard basically. and when it comes to my experience getting beat up um and assaulted by a taliban fighter. and i think i think a lot of that has to do with the fact that, you know, the taliban are using a lot of ad hoc fighters ....
For example, you know, i had fighters tell me that i still cannot do my job. i still cannot take pictures in some checkpoints just because, you know, like doesn t matter if i have that media accreditation. and some recognize this. some don t. so it s a mixed bag. it s not complete it s not it s not a complete standard basically. and when it comes to my experience getting beat up um and assaulted by a taliban fighter. and i think i think a lot of that has to do with the fact that, you know, the taliban are using a lot of ad hoc fighters from out in the provinces. and the fact that they re not actually made for they re not trained for crowd control. they are not trained to deal with a lot of them have never dealt with journalists. a lot of them have never dealt with media. so that s, i think, one of the factors that played into it, too. marcus. foreign correspondent, photojournalist for the los angeles times. live in kabul tonight. while we have been talking to you, sir ....