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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