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And a man held a rocket-propelled grenade launcher to my head and his eyes were cold and fiery. Real people. I am in a Taliban prison deep in the

mountains of Pakistan and nobody can find me.

Who faced death?

He said, we can do to you here.

Whatever we want.

And lived to tell how. If you even think about escaping, I will come after you like

a dime. This 2008 in Pakistan.

Jerry is a journalist specializing in Afghanistan.

I had gone to Afghanistan as a young man before the Soviet Union even invaded

Afghanistan in the 1980s so I had an understanding and love of this of the country

and of the culture. Secondly I went as a young newspaper reporter

the New York Times in the early 1980s and I lived with various members of the

Mujah Hadin, Holy Warriors, our allies, fighting the Soviet Union,

the most important of whom was a man named Chalaladine Hakani.

Today, he is the leader of the most powerful, the most lethal, the most

violent, and the most effective anti-American insurgency or insurgent group, part of the Taliban, closely allied with Al Qaeda, 25 years ago,

he was our ally.

After 9-11, I was hired by CBS and I became their Afghan-Pakistan consultant and I found myself saying

I have to go back and see if I can find these men with whom I lived before.

I could perhaps find out what no one else could find out, what the CIA could not find out, what nobody else seemed to be able to even

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