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Channel 4 News has obtained rare film of Taliban fighters on the Afghanistan frontline, including footage of their attacks on US forces. Channel 4 News Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson looks at what the film tells us about the insurgents and their tactics.
Even if I did want to do it, I would not be allowed to by ITN. Nor would anybody here. But out there in the wide open world of the freelancer, Paul Refsdal did it. He did it brilliantly well.
Originally posted by john124
You get the impression of how stupid this war really is from another angle, and that the Taliban are just humans like anyone else. And because of the long length of the war the living Taliban are becoming a legitimate resistance in the eyes of more people than the day before, as the body counts increase.
Originally posted by Regensturm
When they were CIA-supported, fighting the Soviets, they were 'Freedom Fighters' and 'Mujahadeen'.