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The Long War, Part I [audio 13min]

Boston Globe reporter Charles Sennott was in Afghanistan when US planes attacked in 2001. He recently returned to Afghanistan and Pakistan and took along a microphone. He revisited places where al Qaeda remains active, and where anger against America is rallying young militants. Today, he reports on the growing Islamic militancy in Pakistan. ~Webpage links to transcript, reporter's notebook.
Read entire article at BBC-PRI-WGBH "The World"