Listen: Simon Maloney’s story about being a sniper in Afghanistan

In this podcast from Battle Scars Simon Moloney describes how he took up a lonely sniper position in an Afghan building, not realising it was the headquarters of the local Taliban. Suddenly he and his comrade came under heavy fire from all sides. A bullet slammed into Simon’s throat – a wound which should have killed him in minutes. Bleeding and certain he was close to death, Simon started to fight back against huge odds…