Category Afghanistan
Paying their own way to fight Isis
AMID a rain-soaked field of wild yellow flowers roughly a mile from where Isis militants are dug in, Gulf War veteran Alan Duncan scans the mountainside for signs of the enemy. Machineguns clatter in the distance as the former British soldier turned double-glazing salesman, clutching a modified assault rifle and wearing a light vest stuffed […]
‘They have condemned me to death’ (Afghan interpreter’s letter to David Cameron)
Dear Sir David Cameron, I have served in the British army and the British foreign office as an interpreter for five and half years. As a result, I have received death threats from the Taliban. My brother was nearly assassinated and the Taliban fired a rocket at my house as a warning. Many times insurgents […]
UK is leaving us to die, say Afghan interpreters
The Sunday Times WAHIDULLAH NOORI has tied tourniquets to the limbs of wounded British soldiers and watched friends and colleagues die in front of him. He has met insurgent leaders in secret UK negotiations with the Taliban and has toiled alongside British special forces. As a result of Noori’s work for the British, the Taliban […]
Lash and burn: Taliban vice squads return
The Sunday Times THE Taliban fighter, wearing a black balaclava, dark glasses and black clothes, raised a long, thin cane above his head before bringing it down on the villager’s bare back with a deft flick of his wrist. The villager, identified only as Amanullah, 28, writhed on the grass with his hands tied behind […]
Miles Amoore 