The Taliban fighters who kidnapped David Rohde, a Times reporter, and two Afghans were guided by a strident belief that the U.S. was waging a war against Islam. The third installment in Mr. Rohde’s account of his captivity. Full Story »
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David Rohde's story of his captivity provides an extraordinary perspective both on the Taliban and on the alert [he noted he had been brought from Afghanistan to Pakistan when the car they got into drove down the left side of the road] and intense experience of reporting far from the comfortable routine.
When I told them I was an innocent civilian who should be released, they responded that the United States had held and tortured Muslims in secret detention centers for years. Commanders said they themselves had been imprisoned, their families ignorant of their fate. Why, they asked, should they treat me differently?
