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Welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service. I am Barat to Ibrahim, and on this episode of Heart and Soul which explores personal stories of faith from around the world.

You will hear the story of Jibra Il Omar, formerly Timothy Weeks.

He was an Australian educator who was held captive for three years in Afghanistan by the Taliban. an member of the Taliban after his release. Over the past couple of months, I built a relationship with Jibrail via messaging services.

Eventually, he agreed to speak to me on the record on two occasions.

Jibrail was in Afghanistan to teach in the University of Kabul.

And three weeks after I arrived I was asked to teach a substitute class.

So on the third class... teach a substitute class.

So on the third class that I taught,

when I finished it, I was 20 seconds outside of the campus

and we were you know attacked if we were taken hostage in a very violent

manner. What circumstances then led to your kidnapping or your captivity.

The Taliban had been publicly saying that unless they took these Western teachers out of the country,

that they would attack the university and they would not be held responsible for what they did.

They started making these threats before you came in to take the job.

2016, there is a institution I suppose you call it in the US it's a government institution

it's called the special investigator for Afghan reconstruction and they issued a report in March with obviously I hasn't read that said

you know the AUAF needs to step up on its security that its security is nowhere

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