Has anyone seen this special? Three British journalists, one female and Afghan born, used hidden camera to go behind the veil. The Taliban are total Nazis. I am more convinced of that than ever. They will have to be destroyed, if the nation and its people are to survive. I recommend eveyone watch this one hour special to see what we're dealing with here. These guys make Milosovich look tame...

Oh my gosh. They skinned that 17 year old boy alive. I didn't know humans could do that to one another.

How will they notice if we bomb them? The place doesn't even look habitable.

Oh my God. It's worse than I ever dreamed.

I was thinking the same thought exactly.

Find Bin Laden.

Semd a bunker buster mini-nuke.

He will soon know what it feels like to have 400 tons of rubble fall on top of him.

THe women are in a police state. Horrible.

ANd where are our US liberals? They have been silent...moe concerned about sweatshops and having self-congratulatory dinner parties. I've seen enough of these vermin Taliban to know that they need to be removed. How can people be so brutal towards others? And another thing, Nightline has not, to my knowledge, covered the living conditions over there. They have let Taliban spokesmen on the air, but no stories on the hideous way these cowards treat women.

Women, men, children, doesn't look like they have one favorite victim. How can there be so many ruthless people. It's heartbreaking. It must end.

Time to remove the Taliban from the face of the earth.

This show was nothing but Incredible footage and reporting. Even more impressive is the bravery and courage by Saira Shah, the reporter, and her crew.

The last thing has fallen in to place for me to be able to kill. I now have the target. They are the Taliban.

It should be required viewing for all the antiwar protestors who think love bombing them is the answer.
I was amazed at the audacity of their leader who was saying the countries who provided aid to build their football stadium should build them a place to hold their public executions, instead of complaining they are holding the Taliban version of Circus Maximus there. (I'm paraphrasing)

I was talking to a friend tonite who is a Psychologist (socialist, btw), and she was saying that it was wrong to label these people as evil. She is so full of $h*t sometimes.
I don't have to be an exorcist to recognize evil, and these men are evil.

I don't have CNN. It's too bad these people have to live such horrid lives, it's hard to imagine many would fight to save the Taliban. You wonder how they can really stand having a multi-billionaire in their midst --bin Laden when he has done nothing for their country.

There's more to this than meets the eye.

Remember the source... CNN. Since when can we trust CNN?

Listen to this guy being interviewed on the Art Bell Show.

He just spent a year in Afghanistan.

Try this link to go directly to the sound archive

Or this link: click here to try this if the other doesn't work

Amazing special.

There was nothing particularly 'objective' about the special, full of forboding music and such -- BUT -- it was amazing. The reporter's name escapes me, but she has got some serious guts. While you hear her interpreter in a frantic state as they were first arrested, she was all calm and collected, asking to be let in to the building (which doesn't allow women inside).

The footage throughout the special was just shocking.

If ever the US is to gain 'hearts and minds' in the Muslim community, Afghanistan's civilians would be a great place to start. Given what they have, it wouldn't take much, I don't think.

And I think this special should be required viewing for every militant American feminist unsure of 'where we should stand' right now. The atrocities and repression depicted are horrible. Having seen it, I think the idea that "Maybe there is some truth in what the Taliban is saying about the US" is much less persuasive. No civilized person could see what they've done in Afghanistan and proclaim it as 'progress'.

That whole crew (especially the reporter) literally risked their lives for that story.

The Johns Hopkins prof who was on C-SPAN today was pretty insightful, especially his "Shooting of an Elephant" by George Orwell analogy.

And PBS' Frontline has a good special on Bin Laden...

But the "Behind the Veil" special is really eye-opening.

The mother of five who feeds her children moldy bread crumbs? Ugh. The 'hospital' for women? The raped teenagers?

I get the feeling that the Northern Alliance will have some shiny new mortars and artillery pieces bearing "Made in USA" stamped on all of them delivered sooner rather than later.

The special also elucidated that there is such a thing as the "Taliban Air Force". I think it's about time to send in a pair of F-16s and get rid of their "air force".

I was amazed at the audacity of their leader who was saying the countries who provided aid to build their football stadium should build them a place to hold their public executions

Yeah, great logic with that guy. "We hate the West, but if you want to come over and build us an execution stadium, well, then maybe we'll stop using the football stadium you built as our execution grounds."

So... you hate the West, you want us to go away, but you'd be happy for us to build you an execution grounds?

It's almost as bizarre as seeing these photos of religious clerics and 'devout' anti-American Muslims wearing "Daytona Beach" t-shirts and baseball caps...

Time to remove the Taliban from the face of the earth.

Exactly!!

Saira Shah is slated to be a guest on Larry King Tonight.

9/26/01 -- Airs 9:00p.m. EST, Replay 12:00a.m. Larry ain't a real big friend of freedom, but he ain't the Taliban and, until proven otherwise, I believe Saira Shah is one of the more courageous among us.

Saira Shah is slated to be a guest on Larry King Tonight.

9/26/01 -- Airs 9:00p.m. EST, Replay 12:00a.m.

IMHO - Saira Shah is one courageous woman.

Will they replay Behind the Vail tonight for us west coasters?

I am looking forward to the sequel....Ashcanistan: Beneath the Pile of Rubble

I saw this highly disturbing special.

It was filmed several years ago to show the US about the abhorent condition of women in Afghanistan.

I can't complain about its current propaganda value, but why wasn't it shown then?