Sean Langan

You're either both killed or you're both here.

But I promised that I wouldn't abandon my fixer if Channel 4 got me out.

So we had to be separated.

I'm put in a burqa, cheap patterned plastic leather shoes, ladies shoes.

And they drove me down the mountain.

We get out in this bazaar, the market full of Arab terrorists and Taliban, and we have to change cars.

And I'm now wearing a burqa.

They get me to sit on the side of the road, and they say, wait here, we're going to switch cars.

And they say, try and sit like a lady.

And I'm sitting on the side of the road, like, how does a woman sit in a burqa?

And the ridiculousness of it, they're on the side of the street going, and then I realized, my God, not only are they in purdah, the

people are not free to walk around people can't see the woman's face I didn't know this until you wear a burqa the filament is so fine you can't see the world so you're in jail but in this purdah but you can't even see out I had to squint because it was so fine I'm like as I'm squinting I see 15 fighters come right towards me Arabs with like guns

I'm like, what is the life expectancy of a white Western male dressed as a woman on the side of the road in the Tri-Turks?

I'll be like, but what saved me was that they don't look at women.

So they walked right by me.

Didn't even clock you.

Not looking at me.

And I'm like trying to sit there like, fuck it, I'm invisible.

And that saved me.

I'm back in the car.