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    'The Bed That Saved Me From the Taliban'

    To me this is really a must-read story. It's not super long, and told in first person by an airlines pilot that was in a hotel when it was attacked by the Taliban and he survived. A pretty harrowing long experience. Crazy story. A fast read because it is so interesting.
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    In 2018, Greek pilot Vasileios Vasileiou checked into a luxury hilltop hotel in Kabul that was popular among foreign visitors. Then Taliban gunmen stormed it, killing at least 40 people. Vasileios explains how he survived.

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    I had decided to go for dinner early - at six o'clock - with my friend, another pilot called Michael Poulikakos. It was the first time in the three or four months that I had been coming to the Intercontinental that I'd done this - usually I had dinner at around 8.30pm.

    We finished dinner about 7.30pm and then I went up to my room - room 522 - on the top floor, to make some calls. At 8.47 p.m. I was on the phone to Athens when I heard a big explosion down in the lobby.

    I went out on to the balcony. I could see a man on the ground covered in blood and I could hear gunfire coming from inside and outside the hotel. I realised how lucky it was that I wasn't in the restaurant at that moment and said to myself, "OK Vasileios, you have to do something in order to survive..."

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    Wow! Providence!

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    When he got to the part where a tank was firing into the rooms I about let out a "whoa!!".

    Excellent story with an excellent message.

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    Bet he won't be flying to war torn countries anymore

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    WOW! - What a testimony - Praise God

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    Amazing story but now I want to know how his colleague Michael made it out also.

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