Timothy Weeks, a 54-year-old English language instructor from Australia, who spent 3 and a half years in captivity in Afghanistan, passed away in Kabul on Wednesday.Weeks, who converted to Islam and went by the name of Jibra&& il Omar, was living in Kabul at the time of his death.The Australian academic had actually been a lecturer at the American University in Kabul in 2016 when taken hostage by the Islamic Emirate in addition to an American colleague Kevin King.He was imprisoned for three years before being launched in a prisoner swap in 2019.
The prisoner-swap offer saw the two guys launched in exchange for 3 Islamic Emirate detainees, consisting of Anas Haqqani.According to a declaration issued by the Islamic Emirate, Omar died in Kabul on Wednesday.
He had been fighting cancer for && a long period of time & , the declaration checked out.
& He was caught by the Mujahideen of the Islamic Emirate in the previous years, then he was released from jail throughout the exchange of detainees, then he converted to the holy faith of Islam with his self-satisfaction and altered his name from Timothy Weeks to (Jabriel Omar),& & the statement checked out.&& Jabriel Omar worked as an English teacher in Kabul.
He was extremely keen on Afghanistan and the Islamic Emirate, and based on that he considered it finest to reside in Kabul,& & the IEA said.Abdul Mateen Qani, the spokesperson for the Islamic Emirate&& s ministry of interior, said on X that the && MoI of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan expresses its deep sadness over his death and expresses its condolences to his buddies and loved ones.&& The post Former Australian captive in Afghanistan Timothy Weeks dies in Kabul initially appeared on Ariana News.