Taliban fighters threaten to whip CNN producer in Kabul

CNN’s Clarissa Ward has garnered worldwide acclaim for her reporting on the chaotic streets of Kabul in recent days, and her bravery was once again exposed in a spooky incident on Wednesday. Ward was reporting amid audible gunfire as people around her were trying to get through Taliban checkpoints on their way to the airport when she said her team were up against two aggressive Taliban fighters. “The scariest moment for our team came when our producer Brent Swails was taking a video on his iPhone and two Taliban fighters had just pulled out their pistols and they were ready to whip him,” she said. “We had to step in and scream and it was actually another Taliban fighter who came in and said, ‘No, no, don’t do that, they’re journalists. “” Ward said the situation in Kabul is one of the most volatile. she has witnessed it before, saying, “It was chaos. It was crazy. It was impossible for an ordinary civilian, even if they have their papers, there is no way they would run this glove.