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No Way Home, Episode Two: The Desert of Death

The Intercept Briefing

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The Motor Bik Driver and Asis

Lelon was left with the children and her uncle, amad's family. Ahmad would accompany asis on the motor bike with the smuggler. After two and a half hours, the motor bik driver came back alone. He told leland that they took aziz to the hospital. I got worried, and i asked, what has happened that you took him to the hospital? D his blood pressure had gone up, he replied. The smuggler didn't take them to the hospital as he had promised. Lelo said it felt like he was astounding. They crossed the border in to iron but it would be a while before she would see their uncle ahmad again. O

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he was conscious, but he couldn't find people to help him get on the motor bike. I implored some people to get him on the motor bike. Six people put him on the motor bike. Ahmad would accompany asis on the motor bike with the smuggler. Lelon was left with the children and her uncle, amad's family. The plan was to meet at the next hostel in ron. Lelon was growing tired too, now carrying her two children on her own. After two and a half hours, the motor bik driver came back alone. He told leland that they took aziz to the hospital. Waadn rosootoke ancogo. I got worried, and i asked, what has happened that you took him to the hospital? D his blood pressure had gone up, he replied. He lied to me. The smuggler had come back to take her and her children down the mountain. Initially she refused to go with him, but she was so tired she ultimately gave in. Baso becimus. The smuggler forced my son on his motor bi then i sat on his motor bine with m daughter. I was crying and asking him, where did you take my husband? A we took him to hospital. Now i'll take you there. He replied, my son was crying a lot. He would tell my son to stop crying, as he would take us to his dad. The smuggler didn't take them to the hospital as he had promised. He took them here and there. Lelo said it felt like he was astounding. They had crossed the border in to iron, but it would be a while before she would see their uncle ahmad again. At the fedito. Suddenly, i saw uncle ahmad from behind us. Ahmad told lelon that he would take her to see azis. He took her to zon hedon, a city in ron. Once there, ahmad told her asis was in a hospital in afghaniston, so they would need to return. Lelon was overwhelmed, anxious and frustrated. She had been told so many contradictory things about disease. No one was giving her clear answers. Her children were crying, and she cried with them, begging others to tell her what happened to her husband. In order to get back to afghanistan, they had to turn themselves into the authorities in zohedon because they didn't have the proper travel documents, and crossed into iron. Illegally, they had to be deported back home. After spending a few days and nights in ron, theywere deported to afghanistan. On september twelfth, 20 21, i was sitting in a cabol hotel when i received a call from my brother omid. My family and i had received word that the uk. Government would evacuate us. I was told that i was eligible to be relocated to england because i wa working as a trainer with the british council. But chaos at the airport and then the suicide bombing grounded commercial flights. Omid told me that aziz was missing after trying to cross the afghanistan iran border. Together we began trying to find azis omi, who lived in herat, had an ironian vison. He set off to look for aziz in iron. Ahmad had told omid that he wasn't sure if aziz was still alive. Ahmad had told other relatives that aziz was in hosh a city in iron. But while searching for aziz, omid learned that his body was actually in a hospital in sarawan, a city in south eastern nuran, 100 miles away from hoch the hospital destaff told omid that azis body had been discovered by villagers in sarawan, which wasn't far from where he was supposed to meet lelan. Azis bod had been in the desert for a couple of days before it was taken to the hospital on september ninth, 20 21. They told to met. According to the hospital report, asiz died of three things. The first, being hit by a hard object. The second, hid injuries and concussions. And the third, a cerebral humorrhage. His brain was bleeding. When omid saw azid's body, he noticed that his clothes were torn.

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