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Them Taliban guys seem like real nice people.... 👀

Spoiler! Christ man

What a brave brave man

God bless you sir What a risky job u had 🙏

@@lukemurray4950 just a to see what she said to you to tell you about your test and your test Ada be I as you go on we are trrrrrrrrrrrrrrretfdd free

Yet he abandoned his family for money after being threatened with death on his first meeting lol very honorable selfish man indeed. Or as it is these days some bull story spiced up for us to watch. How can these evil west hating mad so called muslims let him go doesnt make sense.

Probably because he would not be able to live with the guilt of not trying to help him, so in the end it wasn't really a choice for him.

@@Chimponaut or may be its because he is his friend and he's a human being.

@@Gollumfili Well, that was my point, and a decent human could not live with not helping him.

@@Chimponaut I don't know if I could have done that. It sounds like there was a really good chance that they were going to kill them both with that move. I can't imagine being so close to coming home to my wife and kids, just to probably throw it away on the chance that his fixer isn't already dead.

Now i understand british humour 😅

The lady nearly cost em both their lives though, what a basket case

Lmfao 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

“Whatever you do, don’t put me through to voicemail” is so funny now but how do you explain voicemail to tribal taliban? That is so awful that it’s funny now that he lived.

"How do you spell Sean Langan?" is the most British response ever LOL

'heal'? It's the ultimate confirmation of humanity's propensity for goodness. That, itself, is the heal.

😂 because we are human , we are not like you , we appreciate loyalty, unlike you

John 15 : 13 "No one has love greater than this , that someone should surrender his life in behalf of his friends ." 🤍

​@@Dawn-Songs amen

Oh, they allowed the fixer to go because they wouldn't get a heap of USD if they ended up killing the journalist. Has nothing to do with honor.

Honorable men die just as easily.

Imagine the terror from him knowing how those videos goes then when he realized they were giving him his last rites before his execution. Jesus christ I would die from fear

I mean, have you been carpet bombed by an American bomber in Iraq? Wiping many women and children off the map? I think we can equally say that it's both horrific.

@@eddiea677 No no, the americans are the good guys here, It was Afghanistan who invaded and killed thousands in USA, not the other way around.

You do realize that could've made him die at the spot? I mean I appreciate his bravery but people making this act as a requirement is dumb and only comes from western propaganda movies full of clichés

@@ThePatriarchXCI91 Without sacrifice there is no courage or bravery. It’s not just in the west. Every civilization known to man was built on the backs of people willing to sacrifice themselves for someone else or some greater good. Plus just imagine you were the fixer.

@@ThePatriarchXCI91 I don't think anyone is acting like this is some sort of requirement. You really just don't know until you find yourself in that position, which you hopefully never will. It is likely that over those 3 months of imprisonment, they bonded and he looked at his fixer more like a friend, he even mentioned he would prefer to be shot by him, so I guess its a natural human connection.

well he lucky, he was captive in a family house not in Guantanamo bay

Imagine the situation of him speaking English to the Taliban and his Arabic interpreter going: "he said that he won't leave until you release me as well". Sus as hell.

stand ****there****

absolutely. I thought to myself could I stand up and decline my freedom and potentially my life to try to save a friend. You don't know until youre in the same position I suppose but I cant truthfully say I would. I salute this man for his courage

What abt the people that have to live there? Lol

they just let him live.

real men do this shit

Why? What did he actually do? You deserve a slap to be honest

@SLAUGHRR all Indian street shyttrs you keyboard warrior 🤣

@@rarebreed748 what have you done? have you been kidnapped by the Taliban? basically risked your freedom and life for someone else, even though there was a slim chance you were going to make it out alive? Refused to put you children's lives at risk? When you've done that come and comment. You deserve a beating to be honest.

@@rarebreed748 I agree. She’s just a parasite that wants a man to be willing to die for her.

@@rarebreed748 honestly? Are you ok in the head?

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hey tbag

Well said. Agree 💯 %

You

Tbag nice seeing you around in the vast oceans of the RU-vid comments btw I am loving the new hll insurgent sandstorm

The Taliban detained him for 3 months, found him innocent then released him. He wasn't beaten or tortured. This is the summary of his story but stripped from all western propaganda. This is why the Taliban prevailed. They're just. He is not the only western who was detained then released unharmed. In fact, others embraced Islam such as Yvonne Ridley.

Absolute pure Courage and Heart damn

He called afghans arabs what do u mean

@الأزدي He is not lying but dramatizing it! There are Arabs fighting alongside Taliban, and that is what he meant.

Knew the culture ‘naan bread’

I know the taliban appreciated his bravery

He didn't mention god or any personal belief.

You call this terror? Looks like you never heard of Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp

"knowledgeable about their culture". Lol. You mean terrorism right?

@@urten6460 I was clearly referring to the Pashtun family who respected his knowledge on the Pashtun culture so much that they ultimately saved his life. Even when the Taliban were prepared to execute him on the spot. Don't be stupid lmao

Or don't travel to islam nations because of how dangerous they are...

@@stateofmind2668 He's a journalist, traveling to dangerous places to connect with the ppl is literally what quality journalists do.

@@itsnadaaaa To "Connect" he did nothing unfortunately except risk his life. They still kill and torture to this day.. even though this man PROVED.... we westerners are Human to. They don't care to this day. What "connection" ??

among?

@@Poppyfromtabg Huh?🦨🦨🦨

Among us

What's a fixer?

@@TheMrMasterChief12 His fixer was his helper from the local area. His interpreter, his helper, the guy who helped him navigate strange waters. His right hand man.

I was literally looking for this comment. The incompetence is astounding

Amen

He's probably lying and he put himself in a stupid situation where he could have gotten innocent people killed. The guy is your typical liberal blowhard who think's he's so virtuous that he can go to one of the most dangerous parts of the world and be ok, because after all "all humans are good". That isn't the case - he just got really, REALLY lucky.

'NABU `LEAKS `margeleT `lennahC

I wonder how much $ was paid . Fixers are basically CIA TRADERS . GUNS $$ DRUGS & prisoner swaps . All the black op off book stuff that we never realy hear the truth about IMO

_@Alex_ ... At least they didn't use *extreme interrogation techniques* , or even water boarding. Sounds paltry in comparison to what was done to _"detainees"._

We should all think about that for everyone we see daily..... So many people climbing Everest everyday while dealing with suicide and depression.

Was thinking that exact same thing as I was watching, bro.

God yeah your correct

That is such a mad perspective on things!!

That crazy when you think about it

Why do we need this animal

@@rarebreed748 because we need him in it to counteract the faecal matter yer maw pushed out when she gave birth to you.

@@BHALT0S in English now please 🤣

@@BHALT0S you Indian or something 😂

“If you look at them for a minute, they give you strength. If you look at them for more than a minute, it breaks you”

Your missing the point. The Iraq war went on for 12 years for no reason killing so many innocent people. This journalist forgot to report that part. Hes a useless fraud

`NABU `LEAKS `margeleT `lennahC

@@littlebigjungleman5459 Well hero, how did you like being locked up there? You should have told then how much of a Christian you are, or not. That's as stupid as you can get-going there.

@The Nativist check deez nuts

@Nativist what’s it called?

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"Literally" , the most overused word in the world.

That's how god works he sent him there so he could help someone else🙏

@@benmacdui9328 I agree, both literally, and God, the most overused words currently. 👆

@@rukus9585 no shit why would the word God not be popular? Most people in the world believe in some sort of a religion

@@itookurmomlastnight6089 it went over your head. It's ok.

Pot noodle dad 🤣

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Biden demands he is given back to Taliban like our weapons

Stop the war ! God bless all souls on both sides. Have mercy on their souls. 🇷🇺🇺🇲🇧🇧

@@ukrainewarrawvideos3841 I agree with you, although you could at least know what the Ukraine flag is.. That’s the flag for fucking Barbados. 🇧🇧

I really want to know more

@@TubaAmiribecause fuck the Taliban.

for real that was way outta pocket lmao

Afghan/ Persians are huge trolls We troll for a living

Pashtuns have some dry humor. I'm pretty sure they were joking whenever they said they were voting if they'll kill him.

in movie fight sceen.left hand fighters as avillain heroes taliban they have created,right hand fighters state Army and other characters of movie,violation kidnapping,final sceen it was movie and imagination nothing more!

They do drugs bro in afghan

hey we must have watched the same video, what a co-inky dink

In a weird way, I think his captors must have been impressed by stubborn, principled position on not wanting to be released, which resulted in both lives being spared.

Spoiler alert 🚨

Not at all. He might be a hero for the world, but he is the disgrace of the family. He puts his passion first before his family, total selfish man. My prayer to his family.

Better yet, not a friend, but just another man.

“How do you spell Shaun Lagan?” “Fuckin ell how many Shaun lagans have you got kidnapped?” 😂😂😂😂😂😂

An absolutely astonishing, wonderful, and brilliant interview. I shed some tears and also marvelled at his acute recognition of the tribal and religious respect he gained by knowing and recognising what his captors valued. An absolute master class in how to react to be taken hostage and especially by warriors, I dearly wish this could be grabbed by a couple of smart writers to be made into a story. I'm going to have to watch this again immediately, I can't think of anything better to view right now.

Window tint solution

They were confused because they had no idea what voice mail meant…

@@InDisskyS131 Neither do most people, tbf

@@Daniel-hl4ld i hope she was fired

That “lady” aka garbage was told not to send the call to voicemail… and she still sent the call to voicemail. She needs to be fired

So the company has no procedure like giving a codeword or asking to be put through to an on-call senior member of staff? They are sending their overseas correspondents into dangerous situations, so it is completely negligent on their part not to train their staff about what to do.

POO > PEE

You can tell that he is 100%

It’s true, I was the garden

@@xxtomcatxx the very same garden i fertilize with my feces

And that garden grew up to be Albert Einstein!

seems like the Taliban aren't what they tell us they are.

Wow!! Absolutely Beautifully said!!!!

@@f82dot shut up

Errr I think you’ve wildly misunderstood what I was saying. My point is psychology dictates that when mixing with all different types of people we are prone to picking out our differences - that’s a fact. We all do it. But when we instead flip it round to noting what similarities we have then it just leads to nicer connections, understanding, empathy… this guy summed this up in his narration perfectly.

If only we can all see each other as human. Imagine the entire world working together no matter our difference. We have different races, different cultures, different religions, and even a different grasp on reality..but what if we all just saw each other as humans?

and what good would that do?ofc she didnt do it on purpose, most likely she was completely overstrained by the situation.. bear in mind, she was/is just a simple call center worker, most likely not trained in how to behave while negotiating with terrorists. Also, putting ppl through to another phone usually puts the caller automatically on hold, so unless the guy he wanted to reach in the end wasnt physically close to / around the woman, how would she be able to put him through without him ending up on hold automatically.. most likely she didnt even realize what she almost had caused! long story short: there is absolutely NO reason to blame her in front of everyone for this whole situation, thats just awful.. blame the guys that ordered the journalist to go into this area despite knowing how dangerous it is.

@@tschiefnrone as someone who works in a call center, thank you!!! Couldn’t have written it better myself

@@amydiamond6028 You have one job and you failed at it.

@@tschiefnrone I still blame the call center woman. She probably directed the call and then went back to eating her snack. Probably didn't even report it to the police. Call center people are scum.

​@@tschiefnrone I wholeheartedly disagree. The entire "on hold" thing wasn't that if the terrorists heard hold music they'd kill him, it was that he didn't want to be put in line behind typical callers, or any other call. Hearing hold music while the target phone is ringing is a moot point. I used to work at a big car dealership complex with a phone system that allowed you to handle phone calls like at a call center. If I got someone on the phone who had been missing for months and was literally about to be executed by terrorists, you bet your ass I'm going to double and triple check that the fucker he wants to talk to is at his desk with his hand on the phone, ready to answer it. There is absolutely no reason that a co-worker couldn't have helped in some way, called the guy first to make sure he was there, if not then call someone who knew where he was, and so on and so on, until you got the call through. But you mean to say that a person at a call center couldn't literally do their job to save someone's life? That's honestly the dumbest thing I've heard, I'm sorry, you are wrong. Edit: forgot to mention, in a phone system like this, you can set your status. If you're not at your desk, or you clock out for the day, you can set your status to "away" or "do not disturb" or something similar, which causes incoming calls to go STRAIGHT to voicemail without ringing. This is what happened, according to the interview. She either didn't check the target phone's/user's status, or saw that they were away and sent it anyway. Ether way, she's an idiot and fucked up. Period. Also, he wasn't ordered to go to this area. His superiors proposed it and he said yes, he literally said it in this video. If it was a 100% suicide mission and his boss said you go there or you're fired, he obviously would have just left. But he's a TERRORIST JOURNALIST. He literally interviews terrorists by choice. Nobody made him do it.

Even the very descriptive "big, fat American guy" in the end. Made me laugh but it painted the picture beautifully.

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@@nerp23 Be quiet, nothing you say has been corroborated. Lol, do you need an interview with the Talibans that kidnapped him with pictures and footage? The fact that Channel 4 negotiated with them, isn't proof enough. The fact that the fixer was also sent back to the UK is another fabrication....take a long nap

@@nerp23 Why the fuck are you lying??? Look up his wikipedia article and take a look at the sources.

@@nerp23 were you there?

@@nerp23 So you inspired me to spend some time looking into this. And it's clear you did not spend any time looking into this, because his fixer Sami Sharaf does, in fact, corroborate his story. Why are you just spitting random BS off the cuff?

@@Ram-fw8zw what bro💀 u tryna makes this about racism

If dis is wat u cal d greatest story uve heard den u havent heard read or known nything ..Learn the life of Prophet Muhammad (S.A.W) ..The Greatest Man Ever lived on the face of this planet.

​@@sabashaikh3415 nobody cares about myth. FOH.

I agree

How else do you report from places like this? This kind of journalism carries inherent risks to do the job properly

@AK 74 Easy, you simply don't. Full stop. If there is an enormous risk of your employees getting gang raped, tortured and beheaded online; for their family - you simply don't do it. Gather Intel another way.

@@prankgirl9112 That's not how real journalists works. War journalists know and understand the risks and they are not coerced. The job they do is extremely important for humanity. Imagine if we had no war time reporting throughout history.

@@AK-74K yea but you can't be sending people to places with documented cases of beheading. Documenting the war in Ukraine? Sure. Not a camp full of f*cking Taliban savages that don't know how voicemail works.

As a someone who is from Pakistan, his employer is so Godamn stupid. Like literally out government is already corrupt, they’re not gonna save your ass, they don’t give a flying fuck. Makes sense to why my Mom and Dad wanted to move out of Pakistan so bad.

hi chyrosran

didn't expect to see you here.

Lol really? why go in the first place and leave your poor kids and wife.. not knowing if your coming back just for abit of money. Very selfish the children would say

​@@zakariahsgamingchannel9661 are you the children? how do you know what they would say? Lol their dad is a badass anyway for surviving that and making the decision to go there to begin with. It's not like he went for no reason or got kidnapped on purpose

@@justafellowbrother7263 lol guy left his family to be a bad ass ?? Are you feeling ok. Are you a child?

@@zakariahsgamingchannel9661 shhhhh 🤫

@@zakariahsgamingchannel9661 OK dude 👍

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You never heard of it because it would have exposed the truth about the Taliban..that they only kill enemies and not innocent dudes,it dosen't fit the narrative that the western news wants you to know 😉

She probably just forwarded the call instead of ringing the guy, making sure he answered then passing the call through. Easy to say this afterwards of course.

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Cap

@@tccars5571 No cap.

@@judefarrant3308 no cap fugazi

Super cap

Yep he said it himself

what are you apologizing for exactly ? and unless you're living in Afghanistan don't claim that you represent afghan people.

@@jacer5677 Classic american

@@jacer5677 I'm apologizing for what a civilian journalist had gone through so much where his goal was to show other side of story.

@@Awghan u have never been in afghanistan...so shut up

@@jacer5677 why you throwing tantrums?

He then went on to cover the Iraq war

Horrific? Homemade meals and no torture interrogations. They were convinced he was a spy, and probably for good reason considering what NATO has done to their country. For someone they believed was a spy, they treated him pretty good. In GITMO, they are currently torturing suspects (many who were exonerated as completely innocent) who were captured for supposed terrorist plots or collaboration with extremist groups. Tell me who are the animals?

same man after all that id just go and not look back

Its embarassing to say but so would I. It's easy for a lot of people to say "oh I would've done the same thing" whilst never having been in that terrifying situation. I woulda upped and left, and it's breaking my pride admitting that.

"Satan himself masquerades as an angel of Light."

continent*

@@j.leigh2323 you can edit comments on RU-vid

There's a theory about the formation of the developed/first world. It can only exist at the suffering and exploitation of the peripheral world. So far it's been true throughout history. While one part of the world is seeing its golden age, the other is having its resources exploited and people subjugated. From the Romans, Vikings, Ottomans, Great Britain, you name it. America is just the next empire presiding over this earth. But the point is, you're not disconnected from that world. It's not a crisis unfolding far from you, it's the blood and sorrow that is shed so you can have your 'freedom'. When they say they're fighting for your freedom, they mean it literally. The ability to afford commuting in gasoline cars, wealthy economy, all contingent on another nation being pilfered, while your nation asserts its hegemony. Tell me when it hasn't been so? The US was exploiting other nations when it wasn't the Middle East. Point is, time to be more aware.

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it is, have you not seen Transformers, The last Knight?

Edwardo Cariter hahahhah yes ur right

Or a ‘Banged up abroad!’

Have you never seen morbius starring jared leto?

I don’t get all these other bs comments but I agree this could be a great movie, captain Phillips esque.

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He's not. He's a brit

@@hanzalaomar9915 jesus christ im a damn yank as youd call it. You get the point ya damn tea drinking sissies

Or he could not poke around the taliban maybe? 😂