Rohde's Kidnapping Chronicle Ends With Incredible Escape

The final piece of New York Times journalist David Rohde’s Taliban kidnapping narrative was published today. It was the last piece we were waiting for — a description of his daring escape with Afghan journalist Tahir Luddin.

Rohde’s story would make an excellent adventure novel, but the reality of his captivity makes it too scary. In the last chapter of this five-part series, he recounts how he and Luddin used a rope to climb over the 15-foot wall surrounding a compound where they were being held in Pakistan, in the dead of night:

“Tahir tied the rope to the wall surrounding the roof.

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