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You saw the U.S. Forces
take the bullets
out of the body?
Ja.
They tied our
hands and blindfolded us.
They pushed us one
by one into the aircraft.
They flew us
to another province.
To Paktika.
So he had just seen his wife
killed by the American forces,
and then he himself was taken
prisoner by the Americans.
head when they took him?
My senses weren't
working at all. I couldn't cry.
I was numb and
didn't feel a thing.
I didn't eat for
three days and nights.
My hands and clothes
were caked with blood.
They didn't give us water
to wash the blood away.
The interrogators had beards
and didn't wear American uniforms.
They had big muscles.
Sometimes they acted nice.
And sometimes
By the time I got home,
all our dead had
already been buried.
Only my father and my brother were left
at home. I didn't want to live anymore.
I wanted to wear a suicide jacket
and blow myself up
among the Americans.
But my brother and my
father wouldn't let me.
I wanted Jihad
against the Americans.
MOHAMMED DAOUD:
MOHAMMED DAOUD:
The family had no idea
what led the Americans
to their home.
MOHAMMED DAOUD:
POLICE COMMANDER, GARDEZ
They had long fought
against the Taliban,
and Daoud was a police commander
who'd been through dozens
of U.S. training programs.
This is my son,
the Police Commander.
Was he Taliban?
They said they had information
that 50 Taliban were here.
But they were all my relatives,
and they worked for the government.
daughter, and daughter-in-law.
They had committed no
sin and had no enemies.
As we prepared to leave,
Daoud's granddaughter
spoke to us,
the meaning of her words.
Daoud's family told
me it was time to go.
The sun sets early
in the mountains,
and the night belongs
to the Taliban.
The gunfire continued,
and it was now obvious
how dangerous,
maybe even reckless
the trip had been.
Mm-hmm.
NATO wasted no time
issuing a report.
They claimed that the
women killed in Gardez
were the victims of a
Taliban honor killing,
bound and gagged
by their own murderous families.
You saw the U.S. Forces
take the bullets
out of the body?
I believed the family,
but that wasn't enough
for me or anyone else.
[Speaking indistinctly]
Who were these men that
stormed into Daoud's home?
And why would they go to
such horrifying lengths
Tamana.
Who did the Americans kill?
They killed my grandfather...
...and Gulalai.
And they killed Agha Abdulnoor.
All right.
Ready? Yeah.
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