The Canadian Airborne Regiment has been traveling inside and out of Kabul for two decades, Dave Lowery, a former UN Security Advisor to the United Nations.
Since the Taliban returned to power in 2021, he has helped to weaken hundreds of Afghans due to the work for Canada’s army.
But, when the Taliban did not put him in trouble in the past, when he landed at Hamid Karzai Airport on the morning of November 11, 2024, he was waiting for him.
They took her into custody and finally caught her for 77 days until they allowed her to go on January 26. “It was a nerve-ray, it was scared,” he told Global News on Sunday.
In an interview a week after releasing it, Lowry said that the Taliban repeatedly questioned whether he was spy. His kidnappers were also suspected as he was taking 18 visas and aircraft tickets to come to Canada for two Afghan families.
Barrett and combat jackets were also placed in his bag, he said, he said that they were to wear a day to remember the Canadian soldiers’ memorial.
“I am a spy, am that kind of material,” he said during the interrogation, describing the allegations of the General Directorate of Intelligence of the Taliban’s General Directorate.
He said that he still did not know whether the Canadian government or the Qatari Vidyas were dealt with by the negotiating of their liberation. “It’s a question of million dollars,” he said.
Dave and Junping Lover talk to Global News in Dubai, February 2, 2025.
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Foreign Affairs Minister Melani Jolie announced the announcement last Sunday, and thanked Qatar’s Prime Minister Mohammad bin Abdullarhman al -Thani.
Since then, Lower avoided giving any public statements, but after a week of independence, he spoke to the global news from his home in Dubai, joined by his wife, Juiping.
He also shared a journal that was kept during his imprisonment. It starts with his name, date of birth, a note to his family and a vow of “never give” and ends with entrance, “going home.”
Lovers have a long record of international humanitarian service. After two decades in the Canadian army, he went to work for the United Nations as a security adviser in 2000.
Canadian Dave, as it is known, works with UN agencies and NGOs from Sudan and Somalia to Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
He first visited Afghanistan in 2005, when the plane crashed in the mountains outside Kabul, an experience that caused him to go to the city in 2010 as a private contractor.
By his company Raven Resource Group, he continued in the same special place he captured at the UN – unless the US military started withdrawing from Afghanistan in 2021.
Islamist terrorists moved on to Kabul, Afghanistan, who helped the Canadian army and the government, was afraid of the Taliban’s revenge.
BC -based charity funded by the federal government, working with the Veterans Transition Network, brought them to safe houses and tried to move to Afghanistan, moving to migration flights.
He helped to get into hundreds of planes before paying attention to one of the last one, and from his new bases in Dubai, helped Afghanistan flee, using a convoy of vehicles and took him and his families to Pakistan.
Meanwhile, after the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, he began an operation in Poland, with the Ukrainians working with the Canadian army.
“Dave L Very Veri is a Canadian hero,” said Gavin Du, “VTN, who is located in Vancouver and was organized in 2012 to provide consultation and shock programs to retired soldiers.
Journal Canadian P Te Dave Lowwari was kept as a Taliban prisoner during his 77 days.
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The next day of going to Kabul, Laveri posed for a photo on the beach in Dubai, in which he was reading a copy of the book: Kabul’s escape.
The next morning, wearing a Navy jacket with a red poppy in Laplal, he took a selfie at the Dubai airport and sent him to his colleagues.
He was the first of the plane in Kabul. He cleared the customs and got his suitcase from the carousel, but he soon suspects that it was being complied with.
He said he had left the terminal and when security officials caught him, he walked into the parking lot to meet Junping already in Kabul.
They took him inside the airport and passed through his bag, searching for Canadian government aircraft tickets and visas.
The Taliban also took an unwanted interest in the Barrett and combat jackets, bringing it to the memorable day to honor Canada.
Blindfold and scarf with bondage to his hand, he was placed behind the vehicle and taken to the cell, which he called his “illegal detention”.
When Kabul did not go out of the airport, Junping tried to wait and Call, but his phone was closed. He also did not respond to WhatsApp messages.
She showed her photo around and phoned Lovery’s son, but it quickly became clear that it was the worst: Talib took her prisoner.
Recalling his military training, Loveri said that he tried to remain calm and understand his surroundings.
Their inquirer explained that if he cooperated, the investigation may begin formal in a formal way, but if he does not, he will come back in a month and try again.
This could go beyond years, the Taliban intelligence official explained, and Lover had spent enough time to find out what it was true in Afghanistan.
Its cell was six to six meters, with a narrow window sealed with a rab. A mattress scar was lying on the red carpet and there was a cup of plastic for the chie.
Loveri said that he told himself that this could be his home for a long time, and there would be less bonuses. He went into the regularity of the PS Pus to walk around his cell.
Canadian military P Te Dave Laveri was released by the Taliban on January 26, 2025.
Giant transit network
Hoping to go to a hospital, where he could get a word to his family, he began playing the role of a delicate old man, walking with a lame and complaining about kidney problems and hip replacement.
Taliban joked. They saw his Profile Naline profile, in which he described him as a Canadian Dave. Canadian Dave did not need a de Doctor Care, they said Canadian Dave was strong.
“What’s wrong, Canadian Dave?”
After a fish head meal, he started vomiting and appealed to the hospital for tests, which they did.
He was then blindfolded and was taken to the “Guest House” compound where four Americans were also kept (two were soon released in prisoner’s exchanges).
It was a step from his cell, and there was a television where he could see CNN.
What he inquired was men’s, he said. Taliban accused him of spying and examined his body for GPS tracker.
He was asked about the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and what he was doing in Ukraine. He replied that he was not a spy. But he said, he was not beaten or tortured.
Canadian P Te Dave Lewari with Qatar officials after releasing them by the Taliban, January 26, 2025.
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At the end of December, the Taliban moved it again, this time in the villa serving as the base of Laveri in Kabul. He was under detention but had some comforts in the house.
He was allowed to call his family for the first time on December 30. But later he got a Nokia phone that had missed his kidnappers.
Once he got his hand on the cable, he was able to charge him and call his son Brant, who was shocked to hear his father’s voice.
The Brant said in an interview that he had assured his father that the Qatar government was keeping an eye on him, and he was working out for him.
Canadian officials were also in touch with Qataris and believe that his release is imminent.
“And I was able to feed Dad some such information,” Brant said in an interview. “I think it has increased its morale.”
The family had an additional encouragement to look free as quickly as possible. Brant and his wife are expecting their first child in Vasant in Tu, and they wanted her there.
“Trust me, I was forcing Global Affairs Canada and everyone I could. I was calling, and I had phone calls with Minister Jolie, “Brant said.
“It’s something we really wanted. We were pushing for it. In our calls with Minister Jolie, he said he would work hard on him. “
Canadian Dave Lowwari has met with wife Junping at Qatar’s Doha Airport.
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On January 25, Lower worked on the villa’s roof, ate pizza dinner and wrote a note in his journal before the guard came to his room.
“Good news David,” according to the conversation account in his journal. “You’re being released – 100% of you will go tomorrow.”
Taliban told him that the courts of the country had decided that he was cooperative and provided enough time, though he never explained.
“Goodnight will meet you tomorrow,” reads his last diary entries. “Wow I’m going home on 77th. I was very lucky.”
When his plane landed on Doha, he descended from the air ladder and saw a line of officers on the tour. He thought that the VIP should be on the plane.
But they were there for her. He posed for photos with Qataris and met with Junping and his son again before returning to Dubai.
Loveri said that she was “very happy” with Global Affairs Canada, and said that Jolie “is strange” and gave her son a direct number so that they could talk.
He has no plans to return to Kabul, he said.
Qataris told the family that they had taken over the fastest case ever. Afghan families went to Lavri to help, Pakistan was safely out of the road.
Brant said that the family was happy that when his grandson is born, Lavari would be there.
“We can really celebrate something positive for the whole family. And we know that Dad will really be with us, “Brant said.
“There was a lot of materials behind the scenes, and Canada had a large part of it and Qataris.”
“We really need to thank many people.”
Stewart.bell@globalnews.ca
