Here's the link to Secret Pakistan on the BBC's website. It looks like it first aired around November 2011.
I watched Part I tonight. Part II will be on next Monday night. Can't wait.
It has some great interviews with former CIA and former US Army folks who were on the ground in Afghanistan and in the Pentagon and presumably in Langley during the early years of the War in Afghanistan.
The interviews they have with guys who are Northern Alliance, Taliban and even a guy who is still actively fighting the US are just amazing. Sickening, really.
They've got some footage that I've never seen anything quite like it before. The suicide bomb attack on a US HMMWV from the perspective of the bad guys is just gut wrenching. I've seen pictures of what a HMMWV looked like after it ran over an improvised mine in Afghanistan (killing a couple of US soldiers). Those pictures were difficult to look at. Watching this suicide bomber kill Americans made me want to throw up.
As they paint the picture of the duplicity of Pakistan and the help they have given the Taliban and Al Qaeda over the years, it's just appalling.
Since this story is being told from the British perspective, it's interesting to me that during the first 3-4 years the US was fighting in Afghanistan, it was viewed as mostly an American problem. They show the British forces getting there (in 2006, I think - in this show anyway) and basically starting from scratch with respect to understanding the enemy and how they operate.
Anyway, I strongly encourage y'all to check out this show if you get a chance. It looks like it's available on YouTube in multiple segments.
I watched Part I tonight. Part II will be on next Monday night. Can't wait.
It has some great interviews with former CIA and former US Army folks who were on the ground in Afghanistan and in the Pentagon and presumably in Langley during the early years of the War in Afghanistan.
The interviews they have with guys who are Northern Alliance, Taliban and even a guy who is still actively fighting the US are just amazing. Sickening, really.
They've got some footage that I've never seen anything quite like it before. The suicide bomb attack on a US HMMWV from the perspective of the bad guys is just gut wrenching. I've seen pictures of what a HMMWV looked like after it ran over an improvised mine in Afghanistan (killing a couple of US soldiers). Those pictures were difficult to look at. Watching this suicide bomber kill Americans made me want to throw up.
As they paint the picture of the duplicity of Pakistan and the help they have given the Taliban and Al Qaeda over the years, it's just appalling.
Since this story is being told from the British perspective, it's interesting to me that during the first 3-4 years the US was fighting in Afghanistan, it was viewed as mostly an American problem. They show the British forces getting there (in 2006, I think - in this show anyway) and basically starting from scratch with respect to understanding the enemy and how they operate.
Anyway, I strongly encourage y'all to check out this show if you get a chance. It looks like it's available on YouTube in multiple segments.