has collected eyewitness accounts from SAS insiders and Afghans about Ali Jan’s death. They corroborate the allegations relayed to Bibi. But Bibi is still waiting for Australian officials to determine the true sequences of events.She may not have seen what happened to her husband. But she remembers clearly the last time she saw Ali Jan alive. He took her orders for shoes for his six children: Guldasta, 8, Sharifa, 7, Sidiqa, 4, Muzdalifa, 3, and their two babies, Mohmmadullah and Nematullah.
She also remembers dashing, many hours later, down the rocky path towards Darwan, retracing Ali Jan’s last steps, until she was finally convinced by relatives to turn back home. It was too late, they told her. She remembers seeing blood on the floor of her hut and realising she’d badly cut her feet while running but had not noticed the pain. She was pregnant at the time with her seventh child, a girl who would never meet her father.There are other people who remember Ali Jan’s last minutes alive. These are big men from distant continents who visited his neighbourhood wearing camouflaged clothing bearing a small badge of the Australian flag, and the winged-sword insignia of the SAS.
She says life without the family’s breadwinner is hard. Her children do not go to school and often go without food or proper clothes. Seven years later, she is still in mourning, clinging to old memories. In her interview, she recalled Ali Jan’s donkey, led by a relative, returning home after his death.One of the daughters of deceased Afghan villager Ali Jan.
Any curiosity here that just maybe the Taliban had a quiet word to the family about what needed to be said if they all did not want to be horribly killed?.