Sean Langan
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The Shura, they call it.
The Taliban court.
They have all this kind of formality to a kidnap.
It's justified that in their mind, they're not just terrorists.
This is a movement, Islamic movement.
So we sit down.
I'm in court, you know, at judgment.
And there's the Taliban commander, his men and the family.
And he opens the scroll.
Now, at this point, it's three and a half months.
I've lost weight, malnutrition.
I'm sitting there and I am so battered by the whole recent and living with death.
So you're sitting there, not much left straight.
And he reads out the court's findings.
I don't know if he had little reading glasses as well, like the owl judge glasses.
And he says, the Taliban Shura hereby finds you innocent of all charges.
And I literally, I remember I go, thank God for that.
And I sort of sit back.
And I'm just letting that good news, I'm innocent, wash over me.
And then he says, but the Shura voted to kill you anyway.