‘The Bed That Saved Me From the Taliban’
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-bed-that-saved-me-from-the-taliban?utm_source=pocket-newtab ‘The Bed That Saved Me From the Taliban’ 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. BBC News Vasileios Vasileiou _105194479_img-20181206-wa0000.jpg 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. _105195384_img-20181211-wa0021.jpg Vasileios Vasileiou and Michael Poulikakos worked for Afghan airline Kam Air. 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 ex