German quit 'unhygienic, drug-using' Taliban The former fighter also complained of the unhygienic conditions in the war-torn lands of Pakistan's Waziristan province and Afghanistan that left him infected with hepatitis, and which were, in his opinion, "incompatible with the teachings of the Koran." "The sight of their badly mangled bodies moved me," he said. I was scared and I wanted to get out. Waziristan was not what I was looking for. Underlying his dislike of his new life was the Taliban propensity to use drugs, and their "macho" attitude to women. In one case a Taliban fighter went to the German widow of a dead comrade and told her that she would marry him. The proposal was made without any consultation with her, "as if she was just an object" said Thomas U. in his statement. In September 2010 the couple fled Pakistan and made their way to Turkey, where they were arrested. Thomas U., has since turned his back on radical Islam and lets his wife "dress anyway she wants." "I regret leaving Germany and regret my crimes," he told the court.