And he shot him in the face. So he was blind. And meanwhile he was so old and he was so fragile and he was practically one of the few animals which had survived. And when the international army conquered Afghanistan, after the Taliban had been all in the course of keeping the Taliban, Taliban out, there were a mass of journalists following them about thousand journalists. And they came to Kabul and saw the lion and made this a sensation, you know, everywhere in the world from CS CNS, this until the German Corona Express reported on the poor animal. And the, the animal welfare groups in the whole world collected money. And there were very soon half a million of dollars spent, not spent given for, for this lion. And one of the, the heads of the, one of the English welfare groups came to Afghanistan and brought him meat, so much meat, which he was not accustomed to that he died few years, few days later on Christmas, I think 2001, this was a very amazing story.
