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102. You left us to the Taliban: Mustafa Kazemi

heretics. | andrew gold

Andrew Gold

Personal Journals, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.4968 Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Mustafa Kazemi is an Afghan war correspondent, paramedic and military officer who rose to prominence some years ago when he was pictures searching for a tourniquet in a moment when he was convinced he was about to be shot. He’ll tell that story, as well as the tales of the victims murdered at the hands of the Taliban. Mustafa Kazemi links: https://twitter.com/CombatJourno Andrew Gold links: http://youtube.com/andrewgold1 http://instagram.com/andrewgold_ok http://twitter.com/andrewgold_ok http://andrewgoldpodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

At Barclays, we're here for the land of football.

0:06.4

We're here for the Premier League.

0:09.1

And the Barclays Women's Super League.

0:12.2

We're here for the football chance for giving more girls a chance. We're

0:18.0

here for the grassroots and all the muddy boots. From schools to stadiums, we're here for it all.

0:25.0

Barclies, here for the land of football.

0:30.0

People have lost their freedom of how to dress.

0:33.0

If you're wearing a pair of jeans on the streets in Kabul,

0:36.0

you'll be beaten, you'll be lashed.

0:38.0

Pretty much, there's nothing left.

0:40.0

There's nothing left.

0:41.0

Imagine being torn from your home

0:44.7

and taken with your wife and child

0:46.8

to live as a refugee in Albania.

0:49.9

Except you're actually living in a five-star hotel as you wait to be expatriated to the US.

0:56.2

Still, you're stateless, the country you once knew is gone, perhaps never to return.

1:02.2

You've left everything behind. This is the bizarre

1:06.2

and unusual plight of Mustafa Kazeme, an Afghan war correspondent

1:11.1

paramedic and military officer who rose to prominence some years ago when he was

1:15.8

pictured searching for a tourniquet in a moment when he was convinced he was about to be shot.

1:22.1

He'll tell that story as well as the tales of the victims murdered at the hands of the Taliban.

1:28.0

I've interviewed Mustafa before and I'd like to think we've fast become friends.

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