Have you ever felt like escaping to your own desert island?

Jane Gaskin did exactly that, trading in the family home to begin a new life in the

tropics.

But she soon discovers that Paradise has its secrets.

I'm Alice Levine, and this is the price of Paradise,

the island dream that ends in kidnap, corruption, and murder. Wish you were here. Follow the price of Paradise Now, wherever

you listen to podcasts. Good evening. The show begins tonight in Afghanistan where Bill Rajo brings forth the map that shows at least eight Al-Qaeda training camps all around the periphery of Afghanistan, all around Kabul.

At the same time, there are safe houses and other institutions associated with al-Qaeda.

Taliban is the host.

There is very little to say other than the exit from Afghanistan has invited all the bad

actors back into an ungoverned space. Talking with the Saina Connie as well,

this is a direct threat to Pakistan and the region. Al Qaeda is a bad actor. It recognizes

no boundaries, no

sovereignty, no borders. It's training and it's not training for

food service. We also talked about the negotiations that brought us the exit from

Afghanistan, how they were done under false pretenses that Afghanistan, that Taliban would honor their commitments, of course that's foolishness.

At the same time, they were done in Doha and the puzzle is raised,

Doha, the host of the Hamas talks as well. Is that a factor? Is Doha an honest

referee, an honest judge, an honest broker? No answer. We move on to the campus, Columbia especially.

Columbia has cancelled Columbia's graduation. What is causing this? Where is this going?

This school year finishes as unsettled and incomplete as the year

2020 after the George Floyd turmoil. It is odd that the same class is the one that didn't get a graduation from high school and now is not getting a graduation from college.

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