{"id":60847,"date":"2025-08-13T15:02:33","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T15:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/the-bed-that-saved-me-from-the-taliban-2\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T15:02:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T15:02:34","slug":"the-bed-that-saved-me-from-the-taliban-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/the-bed-that-saved-me-from-the-taliban-2\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The bed that saved me from the Taliban&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">I was so excited and full of adrenaline that I put my hand over my mouth in case I started laughing. He disappeared after a few minutes. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">I was so tired. I&#8217;d had to fly late the night before all of this began, then hadn&#8217;t slept the day or night previously, so I&#8217;d been awake for more than 35 or 40 hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Not much later I began to hear other noises and people walking towards my room but I couldn&#8217;t see if it was the bad guys or the good guys. Around 11.40am somebody called out, &#8220;Police! Police!&#8221; in an Afghan accent, but I decided not to come out in case it was the bad guys. Then after 10 or 20 seconds I heard some people with English accents also shouting, &#8220;Police!&#8221; and I was so happy that I began yelling and crawling out of the bed. It was difficult to get out and I could barely breathe &#8211; my chest was hurting so much from being inside the bed, in one position, for so long.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">I was black with smoke so they couldn&#8217;t see my face and the four commandos were shouting, &#8220;Stay down! Stay down!&#8221; while pointing their guns at me.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One of them whispered: &#8220;This must be a ghost!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">I was freezing cold but managed to say, &#8220;I&#8217;m the captain from Kam Air. Please, don&#8217;t shoot!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They couldn&#8217;t believe what they were seeing. They asked me how many hours I&#8217;d been there. I told them I&#8217;d been there all the time. They looked at the bed and asked me how I had managed to survive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One of them said to me, &#8220;OK, I&#8217;m gonna take you down, but listen, I have to have a photo with you before we go,&#8221; and I said I&#8217;d like to have a photo to remember that moment too.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/stories-46882917?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was so excited and full of adrenaline that I put my hand over my mouth in case I started laughing. He disappeared after a few minutes. I was so tired. I&#8217;d had to fly late the night before all of this began, then hadn&#8217;t slept the day or night previously, so I&#8217;d been awake [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60848,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[2890,1072,1602],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60847"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60849,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60847\/revisions\/60849"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}