I SURVIVED: I'm In A Taliban Prison and Nobody Can Find Me

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True Crime, Society & Culture, History, Talk Radio

3.8 • 8.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In 2008 Jere, a journalist specializing in the area, is traveling in Afghanistan to meet with a member of the Taliban he had known years before. While looking for his former contact, Jere and the team he is traveling with are kidnapped and held for ransom by a different Taliban faction in the mountains of Pakistan. Progressive: Multitask right now. Quote your car insurance at Progressive.com to join the over 28 million drivers who trust Progressive. Rosetta Stone: Don’t put off learning that language - there’s no better time than RIGHT NOW to get started! For a very limited time, I Survived listeners can get Rosetta Stone’s Lifetime Membership for 50% off! Visit rosettastone.com/survived Trade Coffee - Visit drinktrade.com/SURVIVED to enjoy 30% off your first order when you subscribe!

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0:00.0	This program contained subject matter that may be disturbing to some listeners.
0:04.0	Listen or discretion is advised.
0:06.0	And a man held a rocket-propelled grenade launcher to my head and his eyes were cold and fiery. Real people. I am in a Taliban prison deep in the
0:18.4	mountains of Pakistan and nobody can find me.
0:24.0	Who faced death?
0:25.6	He said, we can do to you here.
0:29.8	Whatever we want.
0:32.2	And lived to tell how. If you even think about escaping, I will come after you like
0:37.5	a dime. This 2008 in Pakistan.
0:45.0	Jerry is a journalist specializing in Afghanistan.
0:51.0	I had gone to Afghanistan as a young man before the Soviet Union even invaded
0:56.7	Afghanistan in the 1980s so I had an understanding and love of this of the country
1:00.6	and of the culture. Secondly I went as a young newspaper reporter
1:04.8	the New York Times in the early 1980s and I lived with various members of the
1:11.2	Mujah Hadin, Holy Warriors, our allies, fighting the Soviet Union,
1:16.2	the most important of whom was a man named Chalaladine Hakani.
1:22.4	Today, he is the leader of the most powerful, the most lethal, the most
1:27.3	violent, and the most effective anti-American insurgency or insurgent group, part of the Taliban, closely allied with Al Qaeda, 25 years ago,
1:38.0	he was our ally.
1:40.4	After 9-11, I was hired by CBS and I became their Afghan-Pakistan consultant and I found myself saying
1:50.4	I have to go back and see if I can find these men with whom I lived before.
1:57.0	I could perhaps find out what no one else could find out, what the CIA could not find out, what nobody else seemed to be able to even
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