Remembering Sally Goodrich

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Sally Goodrich has died. She was the mother who lost a son on September 11, the humanitarian who wanted to do good in Afghanistan and the teacher who believed education was the future in that country. Sally Goodrich had been featured on The World, as part of a series reported on by Charles Sennott. Download MP3

Taking you “Inside the Taliban”

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The World, in conjunction with GlobalPost and The PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, team up to give you an amazing glimpse into the past, present and future of the Taliban. Veteran reporter Charles Sennott journeys to Pakistan and Afghanistan to document the rise, the fall, and the rebirth of the movement. Click on the player above to hear or download our four-part series “Inside the Taliban.” (Photo: Seamus Murphy/VII for GlobalPost) Also, be sure to check out GlobalPost’s “Life, Death and the Taliban,” and The PBS NewsHour’s “Profiles of the Taliban.“

Moscow 1993, Revisiting the Taliban, Curtis LeMay

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Our “How We Got Here” history podcast is back after a vacation hiatus. Journalist Otto Pohl journeys back to Moscow to find out who shot him during a demonstration in 1993. Veteran foreign correspondent Charles Sennott returns to Afghanistan and Pakistan on the trail of the Taliban. And Warren Kozak tells us about the legendary Curtis LeMay.

Inside the Taliban, Part IV

For the final part of our series on the Taliban, Charles Sennott met with former Taliban leaders and US counter-insurgency experts to try and discover what motivates the Taliban and whether the US military is making progress in understanding them. Listen

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Revisiting an Afghan girls’ school

In part 3 of his series on the Taliban, Charles Sennott travels to Afghanistan to try to revisit a girls school he reported on two years ago. The school was set up by an American couple who lost their son on September 11, 2001. But the school they funded in his memory now appears to be under the control of the Taliban. Listen

Inside the Taliban

A mother’s grief: Charles Sennott’s 2007 story

Pakistan vs the Taliban

In Part Two of our series on the Taliban, Charles Sennott reports on Pakistan’s new internal war on terror, and how the country has turned against the movement it once supported.
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The resurgence of the Taliban

The year 2001 marked the end of Taliban rule in Afghanistan. But its leaders and fighters have regrouped. Reporter Charles Sennott has the first in a series of reports on resurgent influence of the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Listen

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Inside the Taliban

In the final part of our series on the Taliban, Charles Sennott sat down with former Taliban leaders, clerics and US counter-insurgency experts to try to discover the minds of the Taliban and whether the US military is making any progress in understanding them. >>>Listen to Part IV (Photo by Seamus Murphy/VII)

Secret talks with the Taliban

Reporter Charles Sennott, just back from Afghanistan, briefs anchor Marco Werman on back-channel talks between Afghan government officials and moderate Taliban leaders. Listen