Behind Taliban Lines

The video I watched was about Afghanistani journalist Najibullah Quraishi and how he went behind the Taliban lines. He was filming basically the life of an insurgent group and how they are trying to take control back from the US on a key trading route.

During the film he went with the Taliban as they built a road side bomb or an IED. The next morning he went with them as they planted it on a highway in hopes of blowing up a police or military vehicle. But their bid was unsuccessful as their lookouts didn't tell them in time. As they were taking position up at the road to wait for another military vehicle to come, a police jeep drove down the road. The insurgents used RPG's or rocket propelled grenades to blow up the vehicle however again the attempt was unsuccessful.

As the first week of his journey was coming to an end, the group of insurgents that he was with met up with two high powered contacts from Pakistan that were not happy that he was filming. They wanted him gone because they felt that he was a spy and was filming this for evidence. The man that allowed him to follow felt that he was a guest to the group and when the Pakistani men wanted him to be beheaded he compromised with them and allowed him to leave without being harmed.

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Threw this video i learned what are soldiers have to fight against over seas. I also learned that the taliban are using weapons that are sometimes very old because they started to bury them after their war with the russians and they are just now using them against us.

If I had to make an alternate video to this one i would make it on the American's side and show how they are making the country better for them and they are just refusing the help.