Days of Fear: A Firsthand Account of Captivity Under the New Taliban

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On 5 March 2007, Daniele Mastrogiacomo, foreign news correspondent on assignment in Kandahar, his driver and his interpreter were captured by the Taliban. His captors threatened to execute him if Italy did not withdraw its troops from Afghanistan. When Italy refused, his driver was decapitated before his eyes and his death broadcast around the world. To avoid detection, Mastrogiacomo's captors dragged him from village to village. It was a captivity which made Mastrogiacomo confront a world which was completely alien to him. This is his story.

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Daniele Mastrogiacomo was born in Karachi in 1954. Since 1980, he has covered national and international affairs for the Italian dailyLa Repubblica. He has worked as a foreign correspondent in some of the worlds most hostile places: Kabul, Teheran, Palestine, Baghdad, and Mogadishu. In 2006 he reported on the war in Lebanon between Israel and the Hezbollah.