i side off work at the scenario creep as
a reporter and eventually became
investigations over tech even pre 9/11 I
was beginning to do stories with an
Islamic slant as a British born aged
myself either certain affinity with
these young guys and when I was
interviewing um I could speak to them in
their own language
the checkpoint it basically is you know
when Peshawar stops and the tribal areas
begin and there’s a sign that clearly
says no foreigners beyond this point
will get over the deep okay thank you
bye bye thank you
[Music]
neither slowly coming home to me exactly
where I am and how dangerous a place
this is this was a place where the
Taliban and al-qaeda were fleeing and
regrouping
and as we got closer and closer to Kabul
we were being stopped every few miles
eventually they let us through so we’ve
kind of ushered into the city and that
was it we were in Kabal proper the first
impressions I got term was the utter
devastation of the city itself on a
street level looking at these people I –
I you could see the sadness and the
sorrow and the fact that no life isn’t
back to normal and isn’t about to get
back to normal
[Music]
the next day my plan was to speak to as
many people as possible many ordinary
people as possible by the end of the day
I felt I’m really managed to get to the
heart of what Kabul EES are thinking we
had a pretty early start the next
morning we wanted to get back into
Pakistan before nightfall a little bit
no shadow man is to find somebody with
the right price and you seem to be
comfortable with him
[Music]
the taxi driver seemed a bit suspicious
I suppose as to what we had been doing
there he was very interested in in me in
particular
the part of me definitely in a physical
sense felt fear and panic we’ve done all
the hard part as far as I could see you
know we’ve managed to come in and out of
Afghanistan unscathed is this very all
is gonna go wrong
[Music]
in the end you just have to get get your
passport out and start waving it around
there was a simple as that I pulled out
my British passport and you know like
the Red Sea everyone kind of partied in
front of me and managed to make my way
to the front of the crowd and ended up
on the other side and finally got into
Pakistan
as soon as I got onto the Pakistani side
there checked my passport and and he had
a quick flick through my passport and
noticed that my I didn’t have a multiple
visa Oh hands were shackled with these
old kind of iron fetters all very
medieval looking and quite frightening I
suppose really
I was definitely scared probably
remembered actually you know trembling
in fear at the thought of well what
happens now
it was very dark and was difficult to
make out exactly where we were aware we
were going to be kept but I could sit
and see that this was a some kind of
enclosed area quite a big gate at the
front
it was like something that never
experienced before it wasn’t happening
to me kind of thing and there was no
overriding smell of hashish with and I
love banana and practically every inch
of space was taken up that I suppose the
feelings of fear and uncertainty were
too powerful that I was almost in a
state of paralysis for about a good hour
or so where things were happening around
me but I wasn’t quite taking him in
a reporter and eventually became
investigations over tech even pre 9/11 I
was beginning to do stories with an
Islamic slant as a British born aged
myself either certain affinity with
these young guys and when I was
interviewing um I could speak to them in
their own language
the checkpoint it basically is you know
when Peshawar stops and the tribal areas
begin and there’s a sign that clearly
says no foreigners beyond this point
will get over the deep okay thank you
bye bye thank you
[Music]
neither slowly coming home to me exactly
where I am and how dangerous a place
this is this was a place where the
Taliban and al-qaeda were fleeing and
regrouping
and as we got closer and closer to Kabul
we were being stopped every few miles
eventually they let us through so we’ve
kind of ushered into the city and that
was it we were in Kabal proper the first
impressions I got term was the utter
devastation of the city itself on a
street level looking at these people I –
I you could see the sadness and the
sorrow and the fact that no life isn’t
back to normal and isn’t about to get
back to normal
[Music]
the next day my plan was to speak to as
many people as possible many ordinary
people as possible by the end of the day
I felt I’m really managed to get to the
heart of what Kabul EES are thinking we
had a pretty early start the next
morning we wanted to get back into
Pakistan before nightfall a little bit
no shadow man is to find somebody with
the right price and you seem to be
comfortable with him
[Music]
the taxi driver seemed a bit suspicious
I suppose as to what we had been doing
there he was very interested in in me in
particular
the part of me definitely in a physical
sense felt fear and panic we’ve done all
the hard part as far as I could see you
know we’ve managed to come in and out of
Afghanistan unscathed is this very all
is gonna go wrong
[Music]
in the end you just have to get get your
passport out and start waving it around
there was a simple as that I pulled out
my British passport and you know like
the Red Sea everyone kind of partied in
front of me and managed to make my way
to the front of the crowd and ended up
on the other side and finally got into
Pakistan
as soon as I got onto the Pakistani side
there checked my passport and and he had
a quick flick through my passport and
noticed that my I didn’t have a multiple
visa Oh hands were shackled with these
old kind of iron fetters all very
medieval looking and quite frightening I
suppose really
I was definitely scared probably
remembered actually you know trembling
in fear at the thought of well what
happens now
it was very dark and was difficult to
make out exactly where we were aware we
were going to be kept but I could sit
and see that this was a some kind of
enclosed area quite a big gate at the
front
it was like something that never
experienced before it wasn’t happening
to me kind of thing and there was no
overriding smell of hashish with and I
love banana and practically every inch
of space was taken up that I suppose the
feelings of fear and uncertainty were
too powerful that I was almost in a
state of paralysis for about a good hour
or so where things were happening around
me but I wasn’t quite taking him in
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