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## A Vacation from Ambushing People: Inside a Peshawar Refugee Camp During the Bombing of Afghanistan

 In late 2001, as American bombs rain down on Taliban positions across the Afghan border, Hank Cooper boards a flight to Peshawar, Pakistan — the same week New York Times reporter Daniel Pearl departs on the same route to...

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     ## Hank Cooper

  [  ![](https://i1.ytimg.com/vi/4p0x2rNlaY4/hqdefault.jpg) 

 I Shared a Cell With a Murderer in Barlinnie Prison (He Never Came Back)

 

 ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p0x2rNlaY4) [  ![](https://i4.ytimg.com/vi/kCYfZnLCgA8/hqdefault.jpg) 

 Smuggling Heroin in Peshawar: A Tribal Elder's Secret Method | My True Pakistan Story

 

 ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCYfZnLCgA8) [  ![](https://i2.ytimg.com/vi/a5eh5O5-ePk/hqdefault.jpg) 

 Skies of Cape Breton Island Canada being sprayed at dusk

 

 ](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/a5eh5O5-ePk) [  ![](https://i1.ytimg.com/vi/dTx-9By3m8o/hqdefault.jpg) 

 Opium poppies blooming, extraction next

 

 ](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dTx-9By3m8o) [  ![](https://i4.ytimg.com/vi/sBydmF7lbQE/hqdefault.jpg) 

 The Bolivia Run — A True 1973 Narco Story (Full Series)

 

 ](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sBydmF7lbQE) [  ![](https://i1.ytimg.com/vi/P_zYYWpJpnk/hqdefault.jpg) 

 This Man Flew Through a Thunderstorm With Cocaine For Bowie

 

 ](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/P_zYYWpJpnk) [  ![](https://i3.ytimg.com/vi/ZHfzqVMpEuU/hqdefault.jpg) 

 I Met David Bowie at The Ritz Carlton Boston | Crazy True Story

 

 ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHfzqVMpEuU) [  ![](https://i2.ytimg.com/vi/uKWuWH4k-aA/hqdefault.jpg) 

 Smuggling With Bernie: The Story Nobody Should Live

 

 ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKWuWH4k-aA) [  ![](https://i4.ytimg.com/vi/cAlL7qqqfSs/hqdefault.jpg) 

 The Al-Qaeda raid that almost got me killed--Part 2 #truestory #memoir

 

 ](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/cAlL7qqqfSs) [  ![](https://i1.ytimg.com/vi/hMx1G0d1_wU/hqdefault.jpg) 

 This bagel shop conversation led me to Pakistan-Part 1 #truestory

 

 ](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hMx1G0d1_wU) [  ![](https://i3.ytimg.com/vi/F6KjUbzPzG4/hqdefault.jpg) 

 Woke Up 4am With a Gun to My Head...and Heroin on the Nightstand

 

 ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6KjUbzPzG4) [  ![](https://i3.ytimg.com/vi/Js-7zKULwmQ/hqdefault.jpg) 

 I Snuck Back Into a Raided House to Retrieve Hidden Heroin — True Story #truestory

 

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