Archives December 2010

Inside FRONTLINE

DuPont Award Winner

December 22, 2010
FRONTLINE's Behind Taliban Lines, an extraordinary journey deep into the Afghanistan war's new battlefront, has been honored with a 2011 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award, one of the most prestigious in broadcast journalism. Its reporter and videographer, veteran Afghan journalist Najibullah Quraishi, was cited by the awards committee for the "incredible risks" he took to gain access into a cell of insurgents, living and filming with them for almost two weeks as they planned and executed attacks against U.S. and Afghan forces in an area in northern Afghanistan which has quietly reverted to Taliban control. View this first-ever film among...
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In the News

The Man Behind WikiLeaks

December 16, 2010
Does the release of the Afghan War documents mean the end of secrets? The founder of WikiLeaks talks about the new world we've entered....
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Update

U.S. Citizens On the "Kill List"?

December 10, 2010
In the new kind of conflict we're in, it's another morally oblique issue that's emerged ...
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Flashback

Beasts, Plagues and The End-Time

December 9, 2010
The roots of our fascination with doom, destruction and how the world ends can be found in this one book - The Book of Revelation.
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In the News

The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan

December 5, 2010
This ancient practice with its illicit sex trade of young boys is now another issue in the tense Washington-Kabul relationship. What the Wikileaks documents revealed--VIEW.
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