On the crash: “I think everyone was alive when we crashed…there was a lot of gunfire and we were trying to protect ourselves…I couldn’t move because of my leg and back injuries…One of the crew chiefs…was hurt very bad. [He was] moaning.”
On his capture: “The people got to me and started to hit me…They held me up in the air. Some people would break through he crowd and hit me. But there were other people shouting…as if they wanted to stop the beating…They chained me up in a room…In the morning [I saw] the barrel of a gun, I think it was an AK-47, come round the door. [The gunman] opened fire and then disappeared…I was hit by shrapnel which I had to pull out of my arm.”
On the mission: “Americans mean well. We did try to help. Things have gone wrong.”
