Category Afghanistan
‘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 […]
SAS night march to free hostages
The Sunday Times By David Leppard and Miles Amoore THE SAS made a daring night-time march across the mountains in Afghanistan in a “breathtaking” operation to free the British aid worker Helen Johnston and three other hostages, David Cameron revealed yesterday. Johnston, a 28-year old nutritionist who lived in Stoke Newington, north London, while studying […]
Miles Amoore 