distinguished [ inaudible ] in the pakistan tribal regions, you know, mortenson has claimed he was kidnapped by a group including mansour kan. he says that s ridiculous and in the last couple hours saying he s planning to sue mortenson about making a defamatory statement about him. that he s a taliban kidnapper. when mortenson says he was kidnapped by the taliban in 96, the taliban wasn t present. the taliban banned photography. we have a picture of the supposed kidnappers. 60 minutes showed a picture of mortenson carrying a gun with his supposed kidnappers. pretty unusual for a group of kidnappers to be photographed with their faces clearly seen and for their supposed victim to pose with them with a gun. this is really goes to the heart of some of the claims that mortenson has made in his two books. some of them more dramatic episodes, just turn out to be based on a number of interviews
that for 19 years this organization s been in operation, they have only done audited statements once. listen to this part, this is interesting. there s a photograph in the book which shows mortenson is, the kidnappers he claims to have been taken by, one of those kidnappers is allegedly mun sore masud, somebody you know. he said this on 60 minutes. this is totally false and he is lying. he was not kidnapped. who are these people that are also in the picture? some are my cousins, some are our friends from our village. he goes on to say that he was welcomed. he welcomed they welcomed mortenson. mortenson was kept as a guest, taken in as a guest in the village. mortenson claims he was kidnapped but tried to befriend the kidnappers who were taliban. tell me what you know about this? first, ali, as i ve worked with mansour, he s a