- há 2 dias
A Taliban double agent was instrumental in securing the release of foreign nationals held hostage in Afghanistan by the Taliban.
Categoria
😹
DiversãoTranscrição
00:00As a former FBI agent and chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, I had oversight of all 16 of our nation's intelligence agencies.
00:08My name is Mike Rogers.
00:12I had access to classified information gathered by our operatives.
00:16People who risked everything for the United States and our families.
00:21You don't know their faces or their names.
00:23You don't know the real stories from the people who lived the fear and the pressure.
00:27Until now.
00:30The Taliban regime was ruthless.
00:34There wasn't anything that they wouldn't do.
00:36Anytime you tried to speak to people about Christianity, you were taking a tremendous risk.
00:41There were eight individuals arrested in Afghanistan.
00:44They could be subject to the death penalty.
00:46They would drill us with questions for 10 hours at a time.
00:49The mission was rescue eight hostages in the heart of Taliban country and bring them home.
00:54It's
00:58You
00:59The
01:46Kabul's latest occupying force are Islamic fundamentalists who call themselves the Taliban.
01:52Their aim, to reshape morals and principles in their image of Islam.
01:57Afghanistan under the Taliban was a highly repressive society.
02:04The Taliban was ruling over most of the country.
02:07The Muslim Taliban government controlled most of Afghanistan and banned women from going to school or work.
02:13Women had to be accompanied by a man to walk outside and had to be covered in a veil from head to toe.
02:19The Taliban exposed the Afghan people to a horrific war that continues to this day.
02:28You also had this group of international religious extremists under bin Laden, who referred to themselves as al-Qaeda, and they had sought and gained safe haven in the Taliban control parts of Afghanistan.
02:48They were essentially being hosted by the Taliban.
02:51It was the paramount safe haven for al-Qaeda, which was the most dangerous terrorist group on the planet at the time.
02:59The Taliban is ruling according to their conception of Islamic law, the most literal fundamentalist conception that you can possibly imagine.
03:16The Taliban regime was ruthless.
03:21There wasn't anything that they wouldn't do.
03:26These men would shoot women in the back of the head.
03:30They were the men who would beat you on the street with whips.
03:33They were the ones who were committing all the crimes against humanity in the name of Islam.
03:39The people were in dire, dire straits, and they were living in abject poverty.
03:49They were suffering under the greatest, most oppressive regime that we've seen in modern history.
03:58I mean, it makes me feel angry, but I don't want to live just to feel angry.
04:03I want to do something to change it.
04:06That's why I went to Afghanistan.
04:09In March of 2001, I moved to Afghanistan to join a relief agency called Shelter Now International.
04:22Their objective was developing small business enterprises for women and programs to teach job skills to street kids.
04:32There were a number of internationals in Afghanistan who were doing humanitarian work there.
04:39who really wanted to serve the Afghan people.
04:43Over half of the population is female.
04:45And of course, in Islam, any contact with women with whom you are not related by blood outside of marriage is absolutely forbidden.
04:53And so, just from a humanitarian standpoint, yeah, there was a very important role that female humanitarian workers would have in a place like Afghanistan.
05:03You know, my plan was to be there forever, I bought a one-way ticket, I wrote my will, I told my parents where to bury my body if I was killed.
05:17That motivation to make a difference in the world was a big factor in the world, I wanted to go to a place where the need was great.
05:32There were a lot of NGOs that were active in Afghanistan, including Christian NGOs, and in Afghanistan, as elsewhere around the world, particularly in the Muslim world, they were very, very careful only to do humanitarian activities and not to get involved in proselytizing.
05:49Because it's a crime in the Muslim world.
05:55Shelter Now was not set up as a Christian organization, but the people who worked for Shelter Now were all Christians.
06:03So, as they would establish relationships with these Afghans, they would begin to tell them about Jesus Christ, et cetera, et cetera.
06:10Did you go there with the mission of sharing the word of God, or did you go there to help people?
06:17Shelter Now, it was both.
06:20We couldn't do one without the other.
06:23In an Islamic culture, talking about religion or faith is usually the first conversation that comes up.
06:31So, it was much more of a kind of a natural flow of life and relationships.
06:36It wasn't like, let's go in and take out our Bible and say, you know, you have to become a Christian.
06:42On August 3rd of 2001, we were scheduled to visit an Afghan home.
06:49It was the home of a family we'd known for a long time.
06:56And they had requested to watch a movie about the life of Jesus.
07:02When we would have a trusted relationship with an Afghan who seemed to be interested in spiritual conversations,
07:16we would let them know, we have a movie about Jesus, and we'd ask them if they'd want to see it.
07:22It was a very stupid thing for them to do.
07:29No question about it.
07:31Anytime you tried to proselytize, tried to speak to people about Christianity, you were taking a tremendous risk.
07:39The film was about two hours.
07:43The film wrapped up.
07:45I packed up my stuff, and I came out about 30 minutes late.
07:50So, when I got in the taxi, I asked him, how much extra do I owe you?
07:54And he looked at me in the rearview mirror with a look of utter terror in his eyes.
07:59And then a man dressed in civilian clothes got in the backseat with me.
08:04And at that point, I realized these men, they've come for me.
08:09There were eight individuals arrested in Afghanistan.
08:19Four of them were Germans.
08:22Two of them were Australians, a man and a woman.
08:24And then there were the two American women.
08:26All eight individuals from the shelter now international.
08:29Their intention was to make an example of Christians working in Afghanistan, doing anything to undermine the Islamic State.
08:41According to the Taliban law, they could be subject to the death penalty.
08:46The Taliban is ruling according to their conception of Islamic law.
09:06The most literal, fundamentalist conception that you can possibly imagine.
09:13The Taliban regime was ruthless.
09:16There wasn't anything that they wouldn't do.
09:18There were eight individuals arrested in Afghanistan.
09:22All eight were in the shelter now international.
09:25Under Islamic law, the crime for proselytizing was death.
09:29After we were arrested, they walked us into this compound.
09:35And when they opened the door, there, standing in front of us, were about 35 to 40 Afghan women.
09:45And that was the first time I broke down and cried.
09:48In 2001, I was the CIA station chief in Islamabad, Pakistan, where I had responsibility for all intelligence gathering operations in both Pakistan and Afghanistan.
10:06In August of 2001, we first got word that these eight individuals, including two young Americans, had been arrested by Taliban security in Kabul.
10:16The U.S. Embassy procured the assistance of a Pakistani lawyer, and he is dealing with the legal authorities inside Afghanistan.
10:27But this was not an intelligence matter for us at that point.
10:31So gathering information concerning these arrestees was not high on our priority list.
10:36In fact, it was basically off the bottom.
10:38The cell was a concrete room with a concrete floor.
10:47The room was very dirty, chipped paint.
10:52I would write in my journal.
10:54I'd be sitting in the cold with the blanket.
10:56Oh, Lord Jesus, I struggle so much with fear here.
11:05Every moment of every day, I battle with the fear that either a Taliban or an angry terrorist will kill me.
11:12The Taliban actually had serious evidence against these people.
11:23In fact, they had broken Taliban law.
11:27It seemed pretty clear that they were guilty.
11:28This stuff is indicating that they were indeed proselytizing in Afghanistan.
11:33After we were arrested, it basically began three weeks of interrogations.
11:41They would bring in Taliban officers.
11:44I was an employee of the Ministry of Justice assigned to the investigation.
11:56I was both an interpreter and also part of the delegation that was asking questions.
12:04They would drill us with questions for 10 hours at a time.
12:08It was all sorts of questions.
12:10It was about their job in Afghanistan, how they came into the country and why they were trying to convert Muslims into Christianity
12:19and why they were taking advantage of the poverty of the people.
12:25One day, they came in with whips, and they were going to whip us that day to get information.
12:32But there was an Afghan Taliban officer who stepped in and intervened.
12:43Why did you want to help them?
12:45Because I was feeling that they shouldn't be in jail, you know?
12:48If you see somebody in a situation that is not appropriate, I think you have to help.
12:55There were almost two classes of Taliban, the leaders of the regime, who were in the face of evil.
13:03And then there were those who were obliged to follow the regime.
13:09We were obliged to work with the Taliban or face the consequences.
13:15They would even torture our relatives around there in our own province.
13:19Last Sunday, their trial started in Kabul, the charge attempting to convert Muslims to Christianity.
13:27A guilty verdict could result in light punishment, deportation, as heavy as a death penalty.
13:33We were actually brought to the Supreme Court on September 8th of 2001.
13:38And there were hundreds of journalists.
13:46And that was the first time we knew anybody out in the world really knew or really cared.
13:53It was a huge international outcry from around the world.
13:56But the Taliban was trying to show the world some kind of legitimate trial, and they were preparing for that.
14:03If they brought us before the Supreme Court and said, look, we have given your people a legitimate trial,
14:10and we have brought evidence against them, and we have found them guilty,
14:14no one would be able to say anything about the punishment.
14:18Fear just really took over.
14:21It was a very scary time.
14:23And then all of a sudden, everything changed.
14:26We have unconfirmed reports this morning that a plane has crashed into one of the towers of the World Trade Center.
14:369-11 changed all the rules.
14:38I've directed the full resources of our intelligence and law enforcement communities
14:42to find those responsible and to bring them to justice.
14:47We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts
14:52and those who harbor them.
14:54We knew bin Laden and al-Qaeda were behind it.
14:59And Afghanistan was the paramount safe haven for bin Laden and al-Qaeda.
15:08The United States of America makes the following demands on the Taliban.
15:14Deliver to United States authorities all the leaders of al-Qaeda who hide in your land.
15:19When we looked at the Taliban after 9-11 in Afghanistan, we gave them choices.
15:26We said, you can join in the fight against al-Qaeda,
15:29or if you decide to stick with al-Qaeda and bin Laden,
15:32we would consider you enemies and we're going to come with lethal force.
15:36So at the same time that we're demanding all these other things,
15:38you know, he's not going to forget about these two Americans.
15:41Release all foreign nationals, including American citizens you have unjustly imprisoned.
15:47You're going to do all these other things, and by the way, you're going to turn over these foreigners as well.
15:51Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.
15:55When we heard that speech, we were sitting in a meeting with some, you know, other, like, top Taliban,
16:05and they were laughing on it.
16:07The Taliban rejected our overtures to turn over bin Laden and to break away from al-Qaeda.
16:14The Taliban leadership had that opportunity, but they rejected it.
16:17And therefore, these people went from being detainees to hostages.
16:25That's the way we were thinking about it now.
16:34The plane has crashed into one of the towers of the World Trade Center.
16:399-11 changed all the rules.
16:41You are with us, or you are with the terrorists.
16:45These people went from being detainees to hostages.
16:52That's the way we were thinking about it now.
16:54Did it bother you that you had to rescue people who knowingly put themselves at risk?
16:59It doesn't matter.
17:02You're a member of our tribe.
17:04You may be stupid.
17:06You're a member of our tribe.
17:07We've got to help you.
17:08On September 11th, my parents came to the prison.
17:16We had a 30-minute supervised visit, and they left the prison, went to the U.N. guest house,
17:23and watched on the television as a second plane crash into the World Trade Center.
17:28They were evacuated the next day on the very last flight out of the country,
17:35and knew that they had left their daughter in the lion's den.
17:41The hardest thing is that I'm not there with her.
17:44And if I could get back to Kabul, I would go.
17:47On the night of September 17th, the Taliban came to our prison and took our entire Shelter Now team
17:57to another prison, considered a high-security prison.
18:05That belonged to the intelligence department of the Taliban.
18:10Yeah, it was bad.
18:12It was worse than the first place.
18:13It was a concrete cell with a concrete floor, bars on the window.
18:19I had scorpions crawling in my bed covers.
18:23I had parasites.
18:25You know, there was just a lot of ailments that came from the filth in the prison.
18:32And they moved us there in order to basically keep us as political prisoners.
18:40Now, we knew we don't negotiate with terrorists.
18:42I mean, we understood those protocols.
18:46And to be honest, we didn't have the expectation that anybody would come and get us.
18:50On my orders, the United States military has begun strikes against al-Qaeda terrorist training camps
18:59and military installations of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.
19:03The war on terror started.
19:11It was October 7th when we heard the first bomb fall.
19:19And then the bombs just started falling repetitively.
19:22They knew there was a war on.
19:30They could hear the aircraft flying overhead.
19:32I think they had a sense that they were just small pawns caught up in a much larger undertaking.
19:38Once that attack starts, the Taliban must be saying to themselves,
19:46look, if we release these people, it's not going to do us any good.
19:49So now it was going to be a matter of either you try to bribe them out in some way
19:54or you go in militarily and you get them out.
19:57JSOC is known as the Joint Special Operations Command,
20:04which is an accumulation of the top special operations units.
20:10When 9-11 happened, guys wanted at it so badly,
20:16they were dreaming it before they even knew what their dream was about.
20:19All they wanted to do was go right the wrong.
20:23And one of the first hard missions that came down
20:27was one that was referred to as Angry Talon,
20:31which was to get into Afghanistan
20:35in the heart of the Taliban country
20:38and rescue eight hostages and bring them home.
20:42After 9-11, I was the commander of CIA forces
20:47responsible for the intelligence collection
20:49and covert action in Afghanistan.
20:53Even in the middle of the war,
20:56deploying teams, engaging in lethal force,
20:58beginning the first armed drone strikes,
21:01we never forgot about the hostages.
21:04In fact, they remained a priority.
21:08Lord, I beg that you would spring open this door
21:11and let us go free.
21:13My heart hurts so much.
21:14I feel like I'm barely hanging on.
21:16She was a young, very emotional girl.
21:22She would cry and she would be scared.
21:25The feeling that I had from the beginning with the detainees
21:28was trying to help them.
21:30And then there was also that purpose,
21:32if we can figure out a way
21:34to keep these people safe
21:38and then eventually be released without any harm.
21:41So I called the U.S. Embassy and offered to help.
21:47We did get into contact with an individual
21:50who had a natural reason to go in and out of the prison.
21:54And so we gave a satellite phone to him
21:57to communicate in real time
21:59with his CIA case officer back in Pakistan,
22:02which we hoped ultimately
22:04might help us to support a military raid to free them.
22:07Did you have a codename that the embassy gave you?
22:12Yes.
22:13What was it?
22:13It was B.A.A.Z.
22:16B.A.A.Z.
22:18There are many motivations
22:20that drive a foreign national
22:23to cooperate with the CIA.
22:25There's money, there's ideology,
22:28perhaps compromise, ego, revenge, coercion even.
22:32The best sources, the best collaborators, however,
22:38are doing it because they're decent people
22:40and they want to do the right thing.
22:42And that transcends cultures.
22:47We're collecting information through Afghan sources.
22:50We needed to know everything
22:51we possibly could know about the prison.
22:55When you start planning a hostage rescue operation,
22:58it is absolutely imperative
23:00that you get as many of the details as possible
23:02because the difference in life or death
23:05can be a fraction of a second.
23:07There is no end to the detail that they need
23:10if they're going to launch a successful raid.
23:14We knew when we got to that prison
23:16that we were going to have
23:17a lot of resistance on our hands.
23:20There were a ton of fortified Taliban positions
23:23within and all around that prison.
23:25And so if they know that there is a staircase
23:31that leads from the ground floor
23:32up to the floor where the women are being held,
23:34he needs to know how many stairs there are.
23:37He needs to know how high the risers are.
23:39You've got to have the ability to stay flexible
23:40and know when you need to deviate left or right
23:42or just completely pull back and flank.
23:45This source told us where they were being held,
23:47how they were being held,
23:49how many guards there were,
23:51where the guards were,
23:52where their weapons were,
23:53what their daily routines were like.
23:56Our confidence in this one source grew
23:58as we learned more and more
24:00and basically confirmed his reporting.
24:03We worked very extensively on the map
24:05to rescue these eight people in Carver.
24:07When we rehearse a mission like this,
24:08obviously you want to make it as realistic as possible.
24:13And so at that point,
24:14they built a mock-up of the prison
24:16and they started exercising to get these people out.
24:19The head of the JSOC liaison team came to me
24:25and he said,
24:26he said,
24:27when we train,
24:28we never give ourselves this much information.
24:34He said,
24:35I think we can get them out.
24:36As the days went on,
24:47not knowing if we would survive,
24:51it eventually just took its toll.
24:55Time stood still.
24:57Every single hour felt like a day
25:00and every day felt like a week
25:02and every week felt like a month.
25:05There were days that it felt like
25:07we had been there literally for an eternity.
25:10I felt hopelessness.
25:13I had kind of pushed God away
25:15because I didn't understand why.
25:19I'm 24,
25:20I'm barely out of the gate
25:22and now it's all,
25:23it's all over.
25:24We had been rehearsing for this
25:29approximately two weeks
25:31every night
25:32and starting to define a target date
25:35that we were going to go do the hit.
25:39It was imminent
25:40that they were going to rescue the hostages.
25:44And then suddenly
25:45we got an unfortunate report
25:48from our source.
25:54They began to move us
25:57so that we wouldn't be trackable.
26:02They were no longer being held
26:0324 hours a day at that same prison.
26:06So if we had set a particular date
26:08to go and launch this raid,
26:10there was at least a decent chance
26:12that they wouldn't be there.
26:18Once the hostages had been moved
26:19to a new prison
26:21and we could no longer predict
26:23where they were going to be
26:24at any given point in time,
26:26we had to stand down
26:27on the operation.
26:28It was no longer possible
26:29to launch a rescue mission.
26:36When I look at this,
26:37I'm still a little heartbroken
26:39that we didn't get to carry this out
26:41and do what we're chartered to do.
26:46It's a little bittersweet.
26:49It was devastating.
26:51I can't tell you
26:52how disappointed we were.
26:54And it was sort of like
26:56being on the cusp
26:58of being able to do something
27:00that you never thought
27:01you'd be able to do.
27:03And suddenly you're back
27:04at square one,
27:05starting all over again.
27:10But you have to be adaptable.
27:15Because the world isn't out there
27:16trying to help you.
27:17You have to seize the opportunities
27:19opportunities that fate presents you.
27:23I have to deal with the world as it is.
27:25Not as I wish it were.
27:29A dramatic turn of events
27:31here in the Afghan capital, Kabul.
27:33The city behind me was, of course,
27:34a stronghold of the Taliban.
27:36Now those forces have completely abandoned it,
27:39leaving it open for the forces
27:41of the opposition, Northern Alliance,
27:42to move in and to take over.
27:44Suddenly, the Taliban lines north
27:47of Kabul collapse.
27:51And the Northern Alliance
27:52comes rushing forward.
27:53And they rush into the city.
27:55The Northern Alliance
27:58was a collection of militias, basically.
28:00Tajiks, Uzbeks, and Hazaras,
28:04who were traditional enemies
28:07of the Taliban.
28:09The Taliban come fleeing to the south
28:12in this complete chaos.
28:15When the Taliban were leaving Kabul,
28:18there were thousands of armed military.
28:21They had the rockets.
28:22They had the PK and Colossians,
28:24the backups, everything.
28:25You could feel in the air
28:27the volatility and the intensity
28:29and the chaos.
28:32We heard the sound of angry men
28:36running down the hallway.
28:39And these men started to bang
28:40on the door of our prison cell.
28:45These men were dressed for war.
28:48Their heads were covered with turbans
28:51that were wrapped around their faces.
28:53All you could see were their eyes.
28:58It was very clear that these men
29:00would have no qualms with doing us harm.
29:05Witnesses say when the Taliban fled Kabul,
29:07they took with them Americans
29:08Heather Mercer and Dana Curry
29:10and six other Western aid workers.
29:12It was a very chaotic no-man's land.
29:19And the hostages, we think,
29:21were still at grave risk.
29:29They were completely lost to our sight.
29:31We had no idea at that point
29:32where they might be.
29:33The Taliban command and control
29:46had fallen apart.
29:47They were fleeing south and to the east
29:50toward Pakistan.
29:51And the hostages, we think,
29:53were still at grave risk.
29:55Witnesses say when the Taliban fled Kabul,
29:57they took with them Americans
29:58Heather Mercer and Dana Curry
30:00and six other Western aid workers.
30:05They were completely lost to our sight.
30:07We had no idea at that point
30:08where they might be.
30:09We stopped in a village called Ghazni
30:15and the Taliban put us into another prison.
30:22And we waited and we prayed
30:25and that was about all we could do.
30:32When the hostages had been removed
30:35from the prison in Kabul,
30:37our intelligence source,
30:38jumped in his car
30:39and started driving south
30:41with the fleeing Taliban,
30:43hoping that he could find them.
30:44What made you decide
30:45to follow the hostages?
30:46For me, it was a humanitarian
30:48and moral duty to just save them.
30:53In Ghazni,
30:54there was fighting going on
30:56out in the street.
30:57We could hear the U.S. jets flying in
31:01and bombing the strategic Taliban strongholds.
31:08After that 15-minute silence,
31:17we heard this entourage of angry,
31:20violent men come and start breaking down
31:23the door of the prison below.
31:25This was the moment
31:27that I thought were dead.
31:30I was hiding under this table,
31:36just praying,
31:38God, please, please don't let them see me.
31:43Right at that moment,
31:45these men came into our cell
31:47and they started yelling,
31:49you're free, you're free.
31:51The Taliban have left and you're free.
31:53And I can't explain that moment
31:55where you're accepting
31:57that this is your fate
31:58and being offered freedom in exchange.
32:02We were so surprised.
32:07And as soon as the city calmed down
32:10and the fighting stopped,
32:11these Northern Alliance supporters
32:13escorted us out of the building
32:16and we started walking through the streets.
32:19And as we were going through the old city,
32:24hundreds and hundreds of Afghans
32:26started to fall in behind us.
32:29The Northern Alliance supporters
32:31start yelling to the crowds,
32:34these were the prisoners in Kabul
32:35and we've set them free.
32:39And they're dancing in the streets,
32:41shooting their guns in celebration.
32:43The whole city was celebrating freedom.
32:49And it was in that moment,
32:52all my struggling,
32:53all my wrangling with God,
32:55he wanted us to be set free
32:57with the people that we had gone to serve.
33:03It was like, God, you're so good.
33:08The Northern Alliance took us
33:10to the Red Cross.
33:14And so for the moment,
33:15Dana and I felt safe.
33:18But the Taliban are still out there.
33:20We were extremely vulnerable
33:22and so we still needed to figure out
33:25how we were going to get out of Afghanistan.
33:28One of my officers said,
33:30the hostages are in Ghazni,
33:32in the local Ghazni office
33:34of the International Committee of the Red Cross,
33:37the ICRC.
33:38One of my case officers,
33:40the one who is handling the source,
33:42he gets on the satellite phone with his source.
33:47And the officer says,
33:49where are you?
33:50And he says,
33:51I'm sitting by the road,
33:54on the ring road south of Kabul.
33:56They stole my car.
33:58The Taliban took our car
34:00just with gunpoint.
34:02Were you scared?
34:03Absolutely we're scared, yeah.
34:05So he says,
34:06okay, I don't care how you get there.
34:08Hitchhike if you have to,
34:09but get to the Red Cross office in Ghazni.
34:13So he shoulders his bag
34:15and he starts hitchhiking
34:17and he manages to catch a ride,
34:19heading south.
34:20And within a matter of hours,
34:22he's in Ghazni
34:23at the Red Cross office.
34:25I remember an Afghan man
34:28came to the door
34:28and said,
34:29pretend like you're going
34:30to the back of the building.
34:32So we headed towards the back
34:34and out of the kitchen
34:37came an Afghan man
34:40dressed in civilian clothes.
34:42They were very, very happy
34:44when they saw me again.
34:45They were bored like,
34:46because of so much happiness,
34:48they were crying.
34:49We were shocked to see him.
34:53And he wasn't wearing
34:54his Taliban clothes.
34:56He didn't have his turban.
34:58He was very clean cut.
34:59He'd shaved his beard.
35:01And he comes to me
35:02and he grabs my hand
35:04and then he grabs my wrist
35:06with his other hand.
35:08And he says,
35:08are you okay, my sister?
35:11We're fine.
35:12We're all fine.
35:15He gave us a satellite phone
35:17and he said,
35:18this is the phone number
35:19you need to call.
35:21So no sooner did I start
35:23calling the number
35:25and I turned around
35:27and he was gone.
35:34And I never saw him again.
35:36We called the number
35:50and on the other end
35:51was the chief consular officer
35:53from the U.S. Embassy
35:55in Islamabad, Pakistan.
35:57And he said to us,
35:59tonight we're coming
36:00with helicopters to get you.
36:03We know that the best
36:05extraction point
36:06for the hostages
36:08is this airfield
36:09close to Ghazni.
36:11So we'd say,
36:12you need to get out
36:13into this airfield.
36:15So we started grabbing
36:16a few things
36:17and started heading towards
36:19where the helicopters
36:21are coming.
36:22JSOC has to go a long way
36:24to get there.
36:25They launched
36:26the rescue helicopters
36:27and they set them
36:28flying north
36:28up toward Ghazni.
36:32We walked
36:33for about 20 minutes
36:34and the satellite phone
36:38went dead.
36:44All communication
36:45is lost
36:45and we're not going
36:46to get it back.
36:49And so we have no idea
36:50what's happening.
36:51It was really
36:54just a wing
36:54and a prayer
36:55at that point.
37:02We walked
37:03for about 20 minutes
37:04and the satellite
37:07phone went dead.
37:09All communication
37:09is lost
37:10and we're not
37:10going to get it back.
37:13And so we just
37:15sat there
37:15and we waited.
37:17The helicopters
37:17are now moving in
37:19and they can spot
37:19the airfield
37:20and rescue helicopters
37:23are trying to look
37:25for some glimmer
37:25of light
37:26out here
37:27in this sea of darkness.
37:28We've got a light
37:29of fire.
37:30That's the only option
37:31we have.
37:32So my German friend
37:34had brought
37:35a little handbag
37:36with her
37:36and so I grabbed
37:38her handbag
37:39and I started
37:39to look for matches
37:40and there was
37:41a box of matches
37:42in the bottom
37:43of her purse.
37:46And we took
37:48those matches out
37:49we started
37:51taking off
37:52our headscarves
37:53lighting them
37:54on fire
37:54and then we just
37:55started waving
37:56the headscarves
37:57in the sky
37:58like flags
37:59like burning flags.
38:06And the helicopters
38:08came around
38:09one more time
38:10and they saw
38:12the fire
38:12and we knew
38:14that they had seen us
38:15because this massive
38:17Chinook helicopter
38:18just swoops down
38:19over our head.
38:23And all of a sudden
38:24from across the field
38:26out of the shadows
38:27comes this row
38:30of G.I. Joe's
38:32and we hear
38:33their voices
38:34yell from hundreds
38:36of feet away.
38:38Are you the detainees?
38:40Are you the prisoners?
38:41And we're like
38:42yes!
38:43And he says
38:44ma'am
38:44you're going to be
38:45just fine.
38:48It had been
38:49complete tension
38:50we had the expectation
38:52that we were about
38:53to save them
38:53suddenly it looked
38:55as though everything
38:55was lost
38:56and now suddenly
38:58they were safely
38:59in the helicopter.
39:02It was complete relief.
39:04Once we hit Pakistan
39:05we were transferred
39:06to a C-130
39:07that took us
39:09to Islamabad
39:10and as the back
39:12of the C-130
39:15opened
39:16standing in the middle
39:19of the runway
39:19was my father.
39:29Were you happy
39:30when you found out
39:31that the hostages
39:31had been rescued?
39:32Yeah, absolutely.
39:33Yeah, very, very happy.
39:34But we sacrificed
39:38so much
39:38because of these issues.
39:41It spread out
39:42in the world
39:42that I was
39:43an American spy
39:44and my dad
39:46was assassinated
39:47just
39:47after a year.
39:55Taliban day.
39:58Do you regret it?
40:00No, I don't regret
40:02like helping
40:03these eight people
40:04to save their life.
40:06It wasn't my choice
40:08to help them.
40:15In my speech
40:15in front of
40:16the United States Congress
40:17I said
40:17to the Taliban
40:19that one of the objectives
40:22was to release
40:23the humanitarian aid workers
40:24that were being detained
40:25against their will.
40:26we've achieved
40:29that objective.
40:33We are so excited
40:34to be back
40:35and again
40:36we know we're here
40:38because
40:38of the prayers
40:39of people
40:40all over the country
40:41all over the world.
40:43It was an honor.
40:44It was an honor
40:45and a privilege
40:46to serve my country
40:48and it was
40:48a collective effort
40:49not just by
40:51the CIA
40:52and Afghanistan
40:53and Pakistan
40:53but of course
40:55with our military
40:56brothers in arms.
40:57There was a very brief
40:58but very intense
40:59sense of joy.
41:03Did you meet
41:04the hostages?
41:05I never did.
41:07Once they were rescued
41:08I was on to the next thing.
41:15Freedom is life.
41:18Freedom is life.
41:20I don't think
41:24can really live
41:26without being free.
41:28Freedom is life.
41:50Freedom is life.
42:04Peace.
42:09Do you know?
42:12Peace.
42:13Gabrielle is life.
42:15Peace.
42:15Peace.
42:16Peace.
42:16Peace.
42:17Peace.
42:17Peace.
42:17Peace.
Recomendado
0:29
|
A Seguir
59:28
59:30
1:43:56
1:10:58
49:55
49:56
49:59
54:25
Seja a primeira pessoa a comentar