Episode description

In 2008 Jere, a journalist specializing in the area, is traveling in Afghanistan to meet with a member of the Taliban he had known years before. While looking for his former contact, Jere and the team he is traveling with are kidnapped and held for ransom by a different Taliban faction in the mountains of Pakistan.

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