Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...across the globe as it explains and makes vivid this sprawling, complicated conflict. It features interviews with ordinary people as well as leaders like George Bush and Fidel Castro. Equally important, the series lets us hear from the mid-level officials (the commander of Soviet forces in Afghanistan, for example) who have the grittiest knowledge of how policy was actually carried out. There is narration, tautly delivered by Kenneth Branagh, but the story is told primarily through film footage of events and the recollections of participants. The filmmakers have combined these materials so that each hourlong program is coherent...
...heartbreaking reminiscences. Weeping, an agricultural technician recalls how often he was tempted to leave the barricades, but when he saw the 14- and 15-year-old boys fighting beside him, he could not. "The shame kept me there," he says. Of course, the hot wars in Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan and elsewhere offer plenty of drama, and it is exciting to hear a mercenary talk about fighting in Angola. But the real tribute to the filmmakers is that amid the thrills, they provide some good understanding of these conflicts and the superpowers' role in them...
...live with this constant threat? After the U.S. bombed Afghanistan and the Sudan, the precautions taken in America filled highlight reels here for days: cranes moving gigantic barriers around the Washington Monument, increased airport security and decreased access to certain offices and revered sites. Surely this barricading offers some protection, But something will be lost when third-graders go home and describe a Washington Monument not as a serene pinnacle to American glory but as a virtual maze of uniforms and restrictions, recalling that it was surrounded not by flags but by concrete...
...Owhali and Odeh have implicated bin Laden in the Kenya and Tanzania bombings, according to federal-court documents. The FBI says they were part of al-Qaida, an international terrorist organization that bin Laden heads, and had been trained at a camp in Afghanistan. Federal prosecutors in New York are drafting a broader terrorism case against him that will include the East African bombings...
...deliver. Most of bin Laden's hidden finances have been impossible to find. Pentagon officials admit they're not flush with big fat targets in bin Laden's network, which is a collection of highly mobile terror cells with no central headquarters. Sending in commandos to snatch him in Afghanistan would be too bloody an operation, and the country's ruling Taliban is so far in no mood to turn him over...