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.

Entire program – July 10, 2009

Today on The World: A report from Ghana, the last stop on President Obama’s overseas trip this week – a conversation with photo-journalist Otto Pohl about his return to Russia to find the man who shot him there 16 years ago, and how the music of gypsy jazz master Django Reinhardt is kept alive and well in Buffalo, New York.
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Searching for my shooter

Anchor Jeb Sharp speaks with photo-journalist Otto Pohl, who was shot while covering a standoff between protestors and Russian security forces in 1993. Pohl recently returned to Russia to try to find the soldier who shot him.
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View pictures from the shooting incident in 1993