In Search of Al Qaeda (full documentary) | FRONTLINE
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- In December 2001, as American forces blasted mountain hideouts in the Tora Bora region of Afghanistan, hundreds of Al Qaeda soldiers fled seemingly disappearing into thin air. In this 2002 documentary, FRONTLINE investigates what happened to the fighters who survived.
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In August of 2002, FRONTLINE veteran producer Martin Smith, his co-producer Marcela Gaviria, and cameraman Scott Anger set out on a two-month journey that took them from London to the Gulf of Oman, into the border regions and teeming cities of Pakistan, and finally to Saudi Arabia and Yemen to investigate what happened to Al Qaeda. Where did its members find sanctuary? Had the network been scattered and rendered ineffective -- or were they regrouping and planning more attacks?
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I've never had a 'favourite journalist' till I started watching Frontline. Tremendous respect for Martin Smith..
Martin the goat
He is so mega. When he asks the lady and the end to answer in English was so class I had to come to the comment section
One of my uncles closest friends, Stephan McGown was kidnapped by Al Qaeda a bit ago and was stuck there for years and no one knew where he was.
He was luckily found and rescued he wrote a book on his story and i highly recommend everyone to read it. 🙏🏻
What’s it called pls I would love to read it
@@Bryertarwaterwithknifes Six years a hostage
Im your uncles closest friend
"When they don't fight the outsiders, they fight each other"
kkkk....and America think they can tame those lunatics
Exactly. Let them clean out themselves.
Fight here is constant...whom you're fighting, variable.
It's really a very sad truth of some muslim tribes.
Martin smith's work and will lyman's voice can't disappoint
I want to see a Frontline episode focusing on people they interviewed 10-20years ago in Afghanistan, Yemen, Pakistan, etc, with a current follow up on how things have been and their hopes for the future.
That'd be amazing. The unfortunate reality is due to the chaos of ensuing & overlapping wars, rise of ISIS, Iranian invasion of Iraq and now covertly in Afghanistan under the guise of "civil war with Taliban" (covered by recent Frontline video); it's very likely they've lost the ability to contact or locate most of these people years ago or they died. Also, the Frontline journalist who did all of the war reporting seems to have retired. I no longer see him in any Frontline documentaries over the past 3-4 yrs. So much depends on the journalist, their contacts, candor, how they interview and stay in contact with sources, etc when it comes to getting people to talk and getting answers you can work with.
I've seen Frontline in recent years turn to interviewing biased and unethical sources, like those surrounding the Trump campaign/admin and the minority corporate news outlet reporters hand-picked by Trump to receive White House press credentials, without any central journalist narrating or confronting these people when they try to lie to get more out of them than just released propaganda and fluff. In most PBS Frontline political specials since 2016, there's little narrative or context given outside of the sound bites taken from the interviewees; which allows them to effectively control the narrative, or at least muddy the waters; making Frontline come off soft against corrupt tyrannts in recent years.
These recent uploads from 10-20 yrs ago make me miss OG Frontline so much 😢
I'm afraid the Trump admin, and the outrage reporting racket corp news got rich off of, is having a lasting negative impact on investigative journalism. In the short-term, Trump's hijinks like withholding millions in congressional funds annually from non-profits that support internet privacy & human rights advocacy, encrypted communication app dev for journalists & dissidents, and publicly funded news orgs like PBS, ProPublica, VOA, etc, financially damaged orgs that couldn't get enough emergency donations in time (leading to massive layoffs or worse). Then there was Trump's blatant sabotage of VOA by appointing a loyalist with no experience to take over, fire all staff that refused to publish White House propaganda, and cancelled foreign correspondent's Visas leaving them trapped abroad in extremely dangerous situations. Plus factors like a new economic recession, which aids mega-corps like Fox News/the Murdochs in aggressively buying-up all local newsrooms struggling to keep the lights on (e.g. The Capital Gazette in DC, which was the target of a mass shooting around the same time), consolidating & censoring; and corporate news focusing on publishing headlines that get clicks in order to maximize ad profits.
This is why black out media coverage of Trump's antics dominated the news from late-2015 to early-2021; causing critical stories to get buried. It's a tactic that Trump, perhaps more-so than any American politician before him, was able exploit this capitalist black hole by putting out inflammatory Tweets & statements right when his people knew a massive story was about to come out. Another issue is outlets with decades-long reputations of trustworthiness (whether or not rightly earned), like the NYT & Washington Post, now clickbaiting readers. Following the trend initially set by online-only outlets like BuzzFeed & Huffington Post (who coincidentally now publish a lot of the investigative journalist pieces turned down by the "reputable" news outlets), they're engineering their headlines (even changing them minutes after publishing if they're not getting enough views) to whatever it takes to go viral on social media; causing a crisis of disinfo due to the bad habit of people sharing articles before actually reading them.
Countless examples of NYT doing this on their COVID coverage by using a thumbnail & headline they knew would trigger massive outrage, while discussing an entirely different subject in the article contents itself (i.e. blaming one minority group for vaccine shortages in headline & photo, but citing completed unrelated causation in the article itself - helping to incite numerous hate crimes the NYT then "failed" to report).
Would you volunteer to start looking for em?
That would be great.
@@Living_Dead_Girrl Well informed..thanks!
That's self explanatory lol
if someone cant understand the benefits of publicly owned companies
rather than for profit, ask yourself whether CNN or Fox would ever
produce a documentary as detailed and critical as any of Frontline PBS'
work in the past decades.
I've watched this for the third time now. I revisit when I need a dose of real journalism. Martin is the consummate professional and an absolute legend in his field.
An idea is never an original thought, I also revisit documentaries by Martin Smith and crew, when I want to watch balanced journalism covering all angles, to the best of their honest abilities
Might sound cheesy but I think it's because PBS is free. They don't charge you to watch it. They don't sell ads. They ask for donations but there isn't a giant corporate agenda. They are just reporting both (or all) sides. Letting the people on both sides say what they have to say. Martin from what I remember has been shot at, had a grenade thrown at his hotel, and yet he still goes to the Middle East to report for most if not all of this war, and before it.
I found myself rewatching all these recently. Remember watching them on an actual box TV via cable. Channel number 2 I believe. Now I'm watching this on my phone via the wireless internet. I'm in the future. lol. Got off topic there for a second.
Fake news network and he does what he is told. You think the things he does is up to him? LOLOLOLOLOL
@deidradahl2802 what does that mean? An idea is never an original thought? I think I disagree.
Big fan of pbs documnetaries from India.
Love the iconic pbs music when documentaries begin
the music like in film manipulates, they do have a bias, think twice before blindly trusting these people, they have been exposed for what they are in the last few years
@@churblefurbles Lmao PBS is one of the most transparent and respectable news orgs out there.
@@churblefurbles PBS is as neutral as they come.
Furthermore there is difference between biased news which is heavily opinionated and the narration of a story .
Most topics are much more complex than what can be reasonably covered in a single hour long documentary. Its up to the viewers to find out further if the topic interests them.
Most importantly, one shouldnt form opinions based on a single documentary.
@@churblefurbles exposed for being exactly what?
@@ajack1889 yeah we have witness how transparent and non partisan PBS eas under Trump... Lol no bias my arse
I admire the courage of this journalist. Continue the good work
PBS is one of the very few news & information outlets left where u get an unbiased & unvarnished view of the event without being part of the story
Yeah.... not really. I used to think that myself. Then I noticed certain skewed views. You'll see it, if you're looking for it.
Yea during the last few years that became obviously not true, literally orange man bad derangement. Voice of god narration and ominous music manipulates, false authority, don't look at the man behind the curtain. Like other public broadcast they misinform through proxy, usually when a talking head speaks some untruth they favor they do not fact check it and let it stand.
@Unknown User Furthermore on "policing the police" they let some woman make the statement that she knew the incident rates for black arrests were disproportionate because she saw lots of white people on the show cops. The producer of cops openly admitted they rigged it for "equality" reasons.
Martin smith has been killing it for 20 years!
I know ...where is he..he's old now I think..
Whether or not the world is at peace I pray for the Peace of all whose eyes cross this post ✌️🇺🇲🫂
This guys got guts to ride around with that crew in such hostile territory.
were the tribal areas more hostile? id be scared shitless
To ask the Saudi prince such tough questions takes immense courage too. Especially knowing what Saudi prince's do to American journalists who annoy them (they have them killed and then, cut to pieces).
People have gone crazy with religion. Absolutely disgusting.
QURAN
C5 v 33
Martin Smith has no fuchs left to give when asking these tough questions 👊🏼👊🏼
"Before driving too far, we were stopped and provided a truckload of soldiers" is my definition of badass
Thanks for keeping entertained at work tonight. 🙂
Martin Smith is a genius veteran in the Middle east. William Lyman Is just but a good fellow in the voice industry
waiting for it , please make more documentaries ..
Different religions, different beliefs or different customs don't bother me at all. We all have a place here on this planet regardless of any beliefs we may hold. I draw the line at hurting those who don't believe what you do. We can all live in peace if we try. I want to believe that anyway.
We can't live in peace. It's enough one teaspoon of petrol in a barrel of honey to make everything sh*t. Same with human.
The different beliefs is the reason why we can’t live in peace.
@@npc2480 that's more of an excuse than a reason.
How do you think Christianity spread throughout the world? By imposing their God upon others and punishing or killing those who didn't
@@darinhill3773 what difference does it make if it all boils down to religion and politics? It is basically tribalism is the main reason. People don’t like people who are different.
For once I thought the journalist gonna hit that person when he was asked How did you feel on 9/11 and he replied they were very happy.
Woman and children Suffers the Most in These Nonsense war and belief.!!! This is so Sad and sickening😔😓.
Cool
1:28 the subtitle stayed on for so long that I was surprised it's actually for something he was to say
33:35 is amazing
Hey! Could you guys at Frontline premier this a bit sooner. My data plan runs out this day 😀
BRUH...😭😭😭
😂 lmao
Get unlimited Data it is not expensive!!
@@masskilla469 depends on where you live you fool 🤦🏾♂️
data plan runs out? ur a fool
how did i miss this doc ...
Magnificent, useful, educational,brilliant...Thank you and go on!!!!
What a fantastic piece.
Great documentary Mr.Smith…
So fascinating. Learned so much. Also Martin is the best!!
Martin Smith is so damn good!! Huge fan, great documentary 👍
This is 🔥..i keep looking forward to all there documentaries🤙🏼🤙🏼🤙🏼
Best Reporter EVER.
These people say they are not afraid to die, that they will go to heaven… yet when they’re killed their mothers cry like hell which make no sense since their sons will supposedly go to heaven. I guess their faith is not as strong as we think
And if you ever feel useless. just remember the US took 4 presidents 20 years and trillions of dollars to replace the Taliban with Taliban. No wait this is brilliant. Americas enemies can laugh themselves to death. Absolutely hilarious.😆😅🤣😂
I can't wait to see this too.
those who have watched these documentaries in past can clearly feel and say that documentaries which are made nowadays are nowhere near to these kind of documentaries in quality as well as content.
Really Interesting video. Thank you.
thank you for such an amazing documentary
"Give me your address and I'll let you know if I see any(terrorist)" That's a brave journalist 😁
I chuckled at that too! Lol I'm like "yeah right buddy"
This piece is gold.
I remember actually watching this almost 20 years ago. FRONTLINE had it nailed down since the start.
Maybe the State Department should work with some of these brilliant journalists. It may help them avoid making some terrible and EMBARRASSING decisions.
They purposefully make those decisions as long as they are also profitable.
To late
As a American citizen I got to say our foreign policy is trash
I remember when I was 6 years old in 2002, I used to hear news of war and terrorism in the "stan" countries on BBC radio, here in Kenya
Thanks for sharing 👍
Thx 4 sharing. Plz make alot more. All new ones.
You do know this programme is about 22 year old
Sad praying for everyone
Frontline documaries are next level
This is show how a non nato ally Pakistan always backstabbing USA and West. dispite of they help pakistan with massive amount of aid and favour in trades and many more.
wonder if u can still order VHS???
This is top quality journalism , bringing to light the evil and ignorance in the world
Ignorance and evils of the world is living a life without any purpose or value!!!!. How foolish one can be to living a life to attain money and worshipping his desire. Without acknowledgin there is creator behind these perfect balance creation. And without acknowledgin the true purpose of our existence
@@mohamedmuienudeen8992 Grow up.
The basic ignorance of the Bush Presidency and the general naïveté and arrogance of the US political class is appalling.
I believe it is true that not a single member of the US Congress had a son or daughter is risking their lives in Iraq or Afghanistan.
The voting public in the US should not put up with this extraordinary hypocrisy and incompetence on the part of their political leadership in Washington
Half the voters are dumb.
4 days...I can't wait.
Who sings that song in the intro? It’s beautiful.
The "Supreme Beings of Leisure"..., a Los Angeles-based electronic pop band
Thanks PBS and Frontline.
I'm going to start blaming afghan for everything that happens in my life 🇺🇸
May Allah keep your life miserable insallah. May Allah keep the US veterans filled with PTST and fear. May Allah keep the Americans poor and without health insurancd.
Can someone please tell me how the Taliban's survived one year and a half without mask, social distancing, PCR testing, mandatory vaccines, and now even managed to recapture Kabul and freely rule Afghanistan in the middle of the global pandemic?
I remember when my history teacher used this phrase…. “” we know the fact if we speak we die “” Bro it’s a mystery not a single case being reported 😂😂😂
They have secret potions.. Developed in ancient times..
How
Can you infect shite with shite when it's already shite !?
“Give me your address, I’ll let you know if I ever see them.” Hahahahaha
Hahaha
They are so polite
I bust out laughing 😂
Lol
"Kill/Capture (full documentary) | FRONTLINE" has been deleted from your channel?! plz why?!
martin smith is a rockstar
cant wait for this doc
interviewer has balls of steel to talk down on the crown prince
He is an American, pure American not a secondary citizen, he knows he cant be touched in foreign country like Saudi , Afghanistan we cannot predict
This video is a few decades old 😂
Can't wait
The second guy doing the prayer on the speaker at 37:43 is really going hard at it!
Why set a premiere so far out? Just publish it!!!
@Unknown User why, are there more countries he needs to surrender to?
@Unknown User the president who rolled over to the taliban was named Trump:
_“I started the process. All the troops are coming back home. They couldn’t stop the process. Twenty-one years is enough, don’t we think? Twenty-one years. They [the Biden administration] couldn’t stop the process. They wanted to, but it was very tough to stop the process.”_
@Unknown User the failure was built in by the previous administration. Even his own former NSA said so.
_H.R., McMaster, Trump’s second national security adviser, has recently called it “a surrender agreement with the Taliban.” Another member of Trump’s National Security Council said it was “a very weak agreement.”_
@Unknown User lmaaaoooo got em
@Unknown User they even quoted warmonger military industrial complex ghoul HR McMaster who also called for a new global war on terror. Lmao so hilarious how the anti-trump Dems became so deranged they rehabilitated all the Bush neocon war criminals and now are siding with their hawkish views on more war in the Middle East. If it were up to them we would be in Afghanistan for another 20 years. Doesn’t matter to them because these people are never affected. They don’t have any friends or family that are military and stepped on an IED. It’s all a game to them in their Tesla Model X sipping their soy latte.
This is NOT a new program - it was made in early 2000.
Seriously Martin Smith is amazing, truly an American hero. I wish we knew more about him. Totally could see his biopic starring Christian bale
Killer idea
I hope one day, when people want to learn about others, they'll not think of a biopic but, instead, a biography. Or any other book, like an almanac or an encyclopaedia. Or an online source, like, the PBS Frontline website, or, the many talks Smith has given. Or the PBS video archive, in which he's discussed his past at some length. A biopic is not necessary, to learn about someone. Often biopics are distorted and do injury to the person's reputation - if they even want such a film to be made.
@@jimreily7538 what pbs documentary does he share about himself? The only one I’ve seen which talks in some detail is retirement.
Nothing wrong with a biopic. It introduces masses to someone they wouldn’t commonly know. I’d personally would prefer a biographic documentary. But I also love Christian bale 🤪
Four days is a long time to wait but anything for Frontline
Great job & seriously dangerous.
52:20 Peaceful community spreading peace
Pakistani establishment played the Americans like a fine fiddle
If Pakistan let the US go into the tribal areas these past 20 years so much more success would have been accomplished. But since they had a safe place to hide it was an impossible fight
That's been on my mind a lot lately.
Do you think we'll target Pakistan next?
I wonder why the hell we don't confront Pakistan more aggressively. They've consistently smiled in our faces and supported, harbored and armed terrorists for years, sabotaging our progress. What the hell is going on?
@@dreamingtree6093 right. I mean it's all in front of our faces.
Hahahahahahahahahahaha keep crying
@@rusi6219 I'll tell your mother next time I see her on the street.
Kudos to the Journalist. He is a hero. It was unsettling to see the Yemeni lady talking.
"We fight for God...nothing else"
Is your god so weak that you have to fight for it?
Stronger than you! So shut up!
how you gonna disrespect your viewers with a 480p quality video
Gusts while reporting!
What is the name of the Pashto song in the beginning of the documentary
noticing a trend that whenever muslim countries tried to capture Talibans they "escaped"
I bet this whole documentary is about nobody giving up any information. It took us 20 years just to find out these people people are here to stay. Opinions is just undermining these peoples willingness to survive through faith and punishment. There is only one fact at this moment. We live in a new day in age. A news type of world. A world that most people tried to stop from existing and a world very few people knew it was Inevitable.
This is from 20 years ago!! Frontline is re-runnin’ the shiiiii outta Middle East stuff right now.. 🤦♂️ worse than a teenager on tiktok looking for likes and views…
I’ve noticed that too. They are re-releasing all their Middle East stuff to get those clicks.
Because people forget, need to be reminded how it all began. No mention of Russia, who began this war before the Americans got there.
Don't compare a teenager searching attention in Tik Tok with a global phenomenon, it's not the same.
Pakistan should have been occupied too if they’re not a nuclear power…
This is one of the most chilling journalism ever 😐
I really love this channel
Very good documentary
Frontline…..🔥🔥🔥🔥
Even after 20 years this is a great documentary one thing I will say though is it really highlights how little the west knew about the region especially the tribal areas but as I said it's a really great watch
I agree. It seems as though we take it upon ourselves to interfere in foreign affairs without on-the-ground intelligence and understanding of a thousand plus year history that is more layered than any we are familiar with. Great Britain did the same in the 20's, trying to make a square fit into a circle. Katherine Bell tried, but we westerners just don't comprehend the backstory. Unfortunately, it's all about economics and power...areas in which we as westerners feel obligated to be involved, regardless of our understanding, because it's in "our best interest", regardless of what those involved think
Is this Karl? I listened to Drew and Mike
This documentary seems to be older more than a year. Anyone knows the actual date of its release
2002
Afghanistan had 20 years to pick sides. They chose the old way.
Umm. So did we. Trump negotiated with the taliban without the involvement of the Afghan government
have you seen the videos of masses storming the airport? the Afghan people were stabbed in the back by trump and biden. how do you fight without food, amonition, air support and based on machines who rely on deserting american contractirs and soldiers? rely on proprietary software that is now blocked? how does an army organize, if the puppet leaders (a western empire has installed to enrich itself) flees the country? it was never about giving the afghans a choice
Wow calling terrorists as freedom fighters👏
When was this made?
It says 2002 in description above.
Martin Smith u are a HERO ❤️
32:50 does anyone know that song!! Plz reply me!!
Musharaf gave a statement that they were the indigenous group for liberating kashmir from india...but it is an organisation founded and funded by ISI itself. This group is responsible for bomb blasts during 2000 - 2005 in gujarat, punjab
A Peace Corps worker came to my 6th grade class and did a slide show about providing running water for a village in some mountains. The sky was brilliant blue, the women were walking around in relative security and ease, and the children seemed happy. The Peace Corps guy was there for two years. All was relatively good. That was 1965. Terribly sad to remember now.
They all keep their own interests at heart, and it doesn't work for me. I couldn't have enough friends. There was an ad for Tanya Schlossberg, reading, "How are you going to reach 500 million friends [the Mideast] without writing for the Yale Herald?"
He's a brave and extra ordinary journalist investigative report any dangerous highest official
They don't fight for democracy but live and thrive in an democratic system. Informative report.
'When they're not fighting outsiders, they fight each other' nice 🤣🤣
And
ISI supports the jihadi armies to create unrest in India
These two are my favourite instances
Waiting for the new documentary: In the shadow of 911
Plot twist,
the guys that he is asking about Al-Qaeda are actually Al-Qaeda.
Very good
The good thing about this channel there are not bias.