Monday, July 16, 2012

PBS - FRONTLINE "Behind Taliban Lines" Part 1 of 4

PBS - FRONTLINE "Behind Taliban Lines" Part 1 of 4 Video Clips. Duration : 9.12 Mins.


PBS - FRONTLINE "Behind Taliban Lines" Part 1 of 4 All Rights belong to PBS and/or WGBH Educational Foundation Afghan journalist Najibullah Quraishi's extraordinary 10 days living and filming with an insurgent cell allied with Al Qaeda to sabotage a key US/NATO supply route. www.pbs.org Behind Taliban Lines follows a disparate group of insurgents -- some are Taliban; most are members of warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar's Hezb-i-Islami militia. This small group of fighters represents the war's reality -- inside Afghanistan alone there are well over 150 distinct groups that are considered Taliban, or are aligned with them and/or Al Qaeda. They have different goals, but the one thing that unites them is the war against foreign occupiers. This map highlights some of the Taliban's primary leaders, their areas of operation, and which ones could be potential participants in US reconciliation efforts. In Behind Taliban Lines, FRONTLINE provides a rare glimpse into the inner workings of the growing insurgency in Afghanistan -- a first-ever film among these militants as they travel from village to village, picking up support and weapons, imposing sharia law and collecting taxes as they open up a new battlefront in Afghanistan's northern provinces. "We have around 3000 to 4000 Hezb-i-Islami men in the north," a commander named Kalakub tells Quraishi."People come to us from all over Afghanistan. They come from Chechnya, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan. We get special mujahids from ...

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