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And he was gone. and i never saw him again. we called the number and on the other end was the chief officer from the u.s. embassy in islamabad, pakistan and he said to us, tonight we're coming with helicopters to get you. >> we know that the best extraction point for the hostages is this air field close to ghazni. so we say, you need to get out to this air field. >> so we started grabbing a few things and started heading toward where the helicopters are

Out how we were going to get out of afghanistan. >> one of my officers said, the hostages are in ghazni. in the local ghazni office of the international committee of the red cross, the icrc. one of my case officers, the one who is handling the source, he gets on the satellite phone with his source. and the officer says where are you? and he says, i'm sitting by the road on the ring road south of kabul. they stole my car. >> the taliban took our car at gunpoint. >> were you scared? >> absolutely was scared. >> i don't care how you get there, hitchhike if you have to, but get to the red cross of...

And we waited, and we prayed. and that was about all we could do. >> when the hostages had been removed from the prison in kabul, our intelligence source jumped in his car and started driving south with the fleeing taliban hoping that he could find them. >> what made you decide to follow the hostages? >> for me it was a humanitarian and moral duty to save them. >> in ghazni, there was fighting going on out in the street. we could hear the u.s. jets flying in and bombing the strategic taliban strongholds. after about 15 minutes silence, we heard this entourage of angry, violent men come and sta...

Coming. >> we have to go a long way to get there. they launch the rescue helicopters and they sent them flying north up toward ghazni. >> we walked for about 20 minutes and the satellite phone went dead. >> all communication is lost and we're not going to get it back. so we have no idea what's happening. >> it was really just a wing and a prayer at that point. yeah it is smart guy. almost like having a brand new iphone but not pairing it with at&t. that's true... gordon ramsay. oi, fingers, it's not a buffet! use the cocktail stick. use a cocktail stick. get the most from your amazing new ipho...

Year. deadly attacks that took place in kabul, the capital, last week. also an assault by the taliban on a city called ghazni, very close to the afghan capital, and now we have from a local government official accusations that the taliban held up three buses in the northern province kunduz, took more than 100 people hostage. that official claims that afghan security forces managed to rescue most of them. but it's just an example, another example, rosemary, of the daily kind of drip of violence that plagues this country, again, for some 17 years. rosemary. >> it is a big problem. ivan watson br...