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The Intercept Briefing

No Way Home, Episode Four: Getting Out Alive

The Intercept Briefing

The Intercept

Politics, Unknown, Daily News, History, News

4.86.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Marked as enemies of the new Taliban regime by his work with Westerners and his family’s Hazara ethnicity, Hamid, his wife, their 8-year-old daughter, and their new baby move furtively from place to place, living under assumed names. Their year in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan echoes Hamid’s own war-torn childhood as he tries to guarantee his daughter’s future. Suddenly, an escape route opens: Will they finally make it out?


Created by Afghans forced into exile when the Taliban took over last year, “No Way Home” tells of the perilous exodus born of two decades of broken promises in the U.S. war on terror. Through the stories of four Afghans who tried to leave when the U.S. military pulled out of Afghanistan last summer, these Afghan storytellers use their own experiences of departure, loss, and resilience to illuminate the dark end of America’s longest war. A production of The Intercept and New America, “No Way Home” is a four-part series available on the Intercepted podcast.



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0:00.0

Hello, I'm Matt Ford and I'm Alice Levine and we're the hosts of British scandal this season

0:06.0

We're taking a deep dive into the world of one of the most scandalous Prime Ministers Britain has ever seen Boris Johnson

0:13.5

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0:20.7

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0:30.7

After the crowd subsided we leave the sense includes fall of the earth and blood and their feet.

0:41.7

That's her meat, the man I tried and failed to help leave Afghanistan last year.

0:49.7

After the suicide attack at the Kabul airport last summer Hamid and his family went back home.

0:55.7

They hurled their keeping their heads down. They kept using the nicknames Hamid had come up with when the Taliban took control.

1:03.7

I'm not using their real names because they're still in danger.

1:08.7

Hamid's wife Jamila has a master's degree in sociology.

1:13.7

She was pregnant when the government collapsed and then there was their daughter Elisa who was just outside the blast radius of the bomb that killed more than 180 people at the airport.

1:27.7

As a father everyone hopes for their children the first thing is to be safe and then they should have access to at least to basic life facilities.

1:42.7

Like the first thing is education, good nutrition. We cannot provide the basic needs when we cannot provide it today.

1:55.7

So the future is the most.

1:58.7

On December 2nd 2021 Hamid got an email from Jaris. The French NGO where he'd worked for four years.

2:08.7

France does not wish to expand its reception capacity for political asylum.

2:17.7

It is therefore with great sadness that we have to acknowledge that we cannot today and wait for the support of France, help you to leave Afghanistan.

2:33.7

So how did you feel knowing all of this and receiving a rejection letter?

2:45.7

I was the only option I had in my life to get out of this country so I missed it. I missed the only hope for myself, for my family, for my kids.

3:08.7

I am Sumayatora, a human rights advocate. This is No Way Home, a production of the intercept in New America.

3:18.7

In this four-part series you've been hearing stories that were found, developed and reported by Afghans like me who have been forced into exile.

3:28.7

Our stories reflect what we saw with our own eyes and what we and other Afghans have experienced, first hand, since the US military pulled out the Afghan government collapsed and the Taliban took over last summer.

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