Days of Fear
A Firsthand Account of Captivity Under the New Taliban
On March 5, 2007, Daniele Mastrogiacomo, foreign news correspondent on assignment in Kandahar, his driver and his interpreter were captured by the Taliban. His captors threatened to execute him if Italy did not immediately withdraw its troops from Afghanistan. When Italy refused this demand, the driver, twenty-five-year-old Sayed Agha, was decapitated before Mastrogiacomo's eyes. A video of this horrifying event was shown around the world, and Mastrogiacomo spent the rest of his time in captivity convinced that a similar fate would soon befall him. His jail, however, was not a dark room hidden away in some urban periphery, but a kind of open-…
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Weitere Autoren: Reynolds, Michael (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-1-60945-966-6
- EAN: 9781609459666
- Produktnummer: 17987992
- Verlag: Europa Editions
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 176 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 475 KB
Über den Autor
Daniele Mastrogiacomo was born in Karachi in 1954. Since 1980, he has covered national and international affairs for the Italian daily La Repubblica. He has worked as a foreign correspondent in some of the world's most hostile places: Kabul, Teheran, Palestine, Baghdad, and Mogadishu. In 2006, he reported on the war in Lebanon between Israel and the Hezbollah.
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