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DESCRIPTION:ANSWER Film Series “Taliban Country”  With a report and discussion on 
 the history of U.S. involvement in Afghanistan and the continuing 
 occupation  For three weeks, journalist Carmela Baranowska was embedded 
 with eight hundred US Marines. Filmed in one of the most remote parts of 
 Afghanistan, where no UN or aid agencies are present. The US Marines claim 
 that they are “hunting Taliban and Al-Qaida”. They work alongside local 
 warlord and governor Jan Mohammad whose brutal militia controls the area 
 from where 80% of the heroin reaching Europe originates.  The filmmaker 
 decides to travel back to Oruzgon Province independently of the US Marines 
 and Afghan militia. She is the only independent witness to document US 
 operational areas in Afghanistan in 2004.  What she found is that the US 
 Marines act with impunity. They are conducting cordon and search operations 
 designed to humiliate and terrorize the local   community into compliance.  
 This is a rare and damning insight into what US forces are doing in that 
 other “war on terror.” Away from the eyes of the media, humiliation and 
 brutalization tactics similar to those of used at Abu Ghraib are practiced 
 here with impunity. This documentary is a unique and unprecedented look at 
 the sharp edge of the war on terror in one of the most remote and 
 inaccessible places on earth.   45min. 2004. $5 donation  \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/03/20/92263.php
SUMMARY:Un-Embedded film on Afghanistan "Taliban Country"
LOCATION:ATA (Artists' Television Access)  992 Valencia St. at 21st  near 24th St. 
 BART
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/03/20/92263.php
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