AP, SYDNEYAn Australian teacher held captive with an American colleague by the Taliban for more than three years believes US special forces tried and failed six times to free them. Some of them were so compassionate and such lovely, lovely people. Weeks said he had hugged some of his Taliban guards when they parted company on the day of his and King’s release. Still, the sight of the two US Black Hawk helicopters arriving to take them away had been an enormous relief. “From the moment I sighted both Black Hawk helicopters and was placed in the hands of special forces, I knew my long and tortuous ordeal had come to an end,” he said.
