FRONTLINE

BEHIND TALIBAN LINES

Tuesday, February 23 @ 7:00pm & 10:00pm

Late last summer, while reporting a story for FRONTLINE, veteran Afghan journalist Najibullah Quraishi through channels put out word that he would like to interview one of the new Taliban commanders leading a growing insurgency in the country’s northern provinces.

It would be the first in a series of contacts that would yield one of the more extraordinary pieces of video journalism in recent memory: Quraishi’s 10-day journey among the members of an insurgent cell in northern Afghanistan as they attempt to plant roadside bombs along a highway through northern Afghanistan, which in recent months has become a vital supply route for the United States and NATO.
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