No Way Home, Episode One: Life and Death

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Politics, Unknown, Daily News, History, News

4.8 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

When the Afghan government collapsed last summer, Summia Tora, Afghanistan’s first Rhodes scholar, used her connections to get her father out. But when she tried to evacuate a longtime NGO worker named Hamid, his pregnant wife, and their young daughter, a suicide bomber intervened.

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	Hi Interceptor listeners.
0:02.6	Producer Laura Flynn here to introduce you to a new series we've been working on called
0:07.0	No Way Home, created by Afghans forced into exile when the Taliban took over last year.
0:14.0	No Way Home recounts a perilous exodus, born of two decades of broken promises in the
0:19.5	US war on terror.
0:21.7	These storytellers use their own experiences of separation, loss, and resilience to illuminate
0:27.7	the dark end of America's longest war.
0:31.2	You can hear the four part series here on Intercepted.
0:38.3	A quick warning.
0:39.6	This episode includes descriptions of violence.
0:43.3	Please listen at your discretion.
0:45.4	My eyes were burning.
0:58.8	I could not see anyone.
1:01.6	My ears could only hear the crowds.
1:04.4	I tried to open my eyes to know the about my wife and daughter.
1:08.8	I could not open my eyes.
1:10.8	I shouted their names with my eyes closed.
1:16.0	About a year ago, I met a man, a call, Hamid.
1:21.0	He and thousands of others were trying to leave Afghanistan after the government collapsed
1:26.6	and the Taliban took Kabul.
1:30.6	Hamid and his family were navigating through the large crowd outside of the Kabul airport,
1:36.3	trying to reach one of the checkpoints when he heard a loud explosion.
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