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Sean Langan is an award-winning British war journalist and documentary filmmaker, best known for his work in dangerous and volatile environments. In 2008, he was kidnapped by the Taliban for 3 months when making a film about their training camps. In this interview, we dive deep into his kidnapping, and other projects including ‘The Hostage Takers’ where he goes to Syria to sit down with 2 ISIS members that held captive and beheaded his good friend James Foley. This interview is incredibly intense, hilarious, and heavy. Enjoy.
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Sean’s Links:
https://www.amazon.com/Other-Side-Sean-Langan/dp/B0CW4RTRF4
https://www.filmplatform.net/product/the-hostage-takers/
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2637841/
https://x.com/seanlangan2?lang=en
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00:00 | Intro
05:22 | Kashmir
12:03 | First Taliban project
18:41 | Seeing Osama bin Laden
25:39 | Hilarious Executioner Story & Sean’s closest moment to death
33:45 | Taliban public executions
43:11 | Iraq
48:47 | Stepping on an IED
01:00:31 | Firing Squad
01:04:15 | Ads
01:12:07 | Sean’s kidnapping
01:27:06 | Hostage survival techniques
01:40:19 | Feeling connected to loved ones
01:42:23 | Writing a goodbye letter to his sons
01:46:00 | Refusing to give Taliban names of his children
01:52:31 | Letter from Siraj Haqqani
02:15:40 | Execution
02:34:02 | Coming home was harder than captivity
02:43:59 | Hilarious Taliban Story USAID
02:52:08 | The Hostage Takers (ISIS)
02:54:53 | Jihadi John
03:04:03 | El Shafee Elsheikh
03:11:52| Alexanda Kotey
03:12:51 | Kayla Mueller
03:17:57 | James Foley’s goodbye letter to his family
03:32:53 | Ukraine War
03:55:16 | Wagner Group
04:00:06 | Bucha
04:06:04 | Russian Spetsnaz
04:16:50:04946 | Outro