Captive

Kidnapped by the Taliban

During a harrowing 45-day ordeal in 2008, author and longtime South Asia correspondent Jere Van Dyk was kidnapped by the Taliban in the tribal lands on the Afghanistan/Pakistan border. Join Van Dyk and reporter Anand Gopal for a lively discussion of the militant milieu in Pakistan and Afghanistan’s rugged tribal areas.

Copies of the book will be available for purchase and signing.

Participants

Featured speaker
Jere Van Dyk
Author, Captive: My Time as a Prisoner of the Taliban

Respondent
Anand Gopal
Journalist
Co-author, “The Battle for Pakistan: Militancy and Conflict in North Waziristan”

Moderator
Brian Fishman
Counterterrorism Research Fellow
New America Foundation

Event Time and Location

Thursday, June 24, 2010 - 12:15pm - 1:45pm
New America Foundation
1899 L Street NW Suite 400
Washington, DC 20036

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