Soundbite: NYT‘s David Rohde Under Drone Attack In Pakistan

Our guards believed the drones were targeting me. United States officials wanted to kill me, they said, because my death would eliminate the enormous leverage and credibility they believed a single American prisoner gave the Haqqanis, the Taliban faction that was holding us. Whenever a drone appeared, I was ordered to stay inside. The guards believed that its surveillance cameras could recognize my face from thousands of feet above.

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From Part Four of NYT‘s reporter David Rohde’s series about his nine-month captivity at the hands of the Taliban. Alas, the Times doesn’t allow embedding of its videos, but you view the whole thing interactive part here.

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