Frontline: Behind Taliban Lines - Home Use
This item is included in the following series/curriculum: Frontline
- Grade Level: General-Adult
- Subjects: Religion and Spirituality, Multiculturalism, Government
- Produced By: PBS Distribution
- Year: 2010
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Running Time: 60m
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This past Fall, an Afghan video journalist negotiated extraordinary access to a part of the country that has quietly reverted back to Taliban control. For close to two weeks, the journalist traveled a region that he found was now largely under control of the Taliban "shadow" government. He also tracked members of an insurgent cell working with members of Al Qaeda on a mission to sabotage a major U.S./NATO supply route. As the new U.S. strategy focuses on the south and eastern parts of the country, this film opens up a window onto a potential new front in the north, and sheds an important light on who's fighting the U.S. efforts in Afghanistan and why. Also in this hour: A report from Pakistan on the country's troubled public school system which is among the worst in the world, despite years of U.S. aid.