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DuPont Award Winner

December 22, 2010
FRONTLINE's Behind Taliban Lines, an extraordinary journey deep into the Afghanistan war's new battlefront, has been honored with a 2011 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award, one of the most prestigious in broadcast journalism. Its reporter and videographer, veteran Afghan journalist Najibullah Quraishi, was cited by the awards committee for the "incredible risks" he took to gain access into a cell of insurgents, living and filming with them for almost two weeks as they planned and executed attacks against U.S. and Afghan forces in an area in northern Afghanistan which has quietly reverted to Taliban control. View this first-ever film among...
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In the News

The Man Behind WikiLeaks

December 16, 2010
Does the release of the Afghan War documents mean the end of secrets? The founder of WikiLeaks talks about the new world we've entered....
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Update

U.S. Citizens On the "Kill List"?

December 10, 2010
In the new kind of conflict we're in, it's another morally oblique issue that's emerged ...
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Flashback

Beasts, Plagues and The End-Time

December 9, 2010
The roots of our fascination with doom, destruction and how the world ends can be found in this one book - The Book of Revelation.
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The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan

December 5, 2010
This ancient practice with its illicit sex trade of young boys is now another issue in the tense Washington-Kabul relationship. What the Wikileaks documents revealed--VIEW.
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Flashback

"A True Miracle"

November 30, 2010
In the wake of last week's startling announcement that daily use of Truvada, an antiretroviral therapy pill, helps prevent HIV infection, here's a look back to the 1996 discovery of combination therapy and how it works. The video is from our 2006 miniseries The Age of AIDS, which tells the global story of the worst pandemic of modern times. The miraculous "triple cocktail" treatment seemed to signal a new era in which AIDS was no longer a fatal disease. But the high price of the drugs meant they were unaffordable to patients in developing nations. Even today -- despite high-profile...
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In the News

Who Killed Rafiq Hariri?

November 22, 2010
Riveting, sometimes shocking details from a CBC investigation that appears to confirm what's long been suspected... VIEW
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Flashback

Law Man

November 8, 2010
VIEW: Does what Barack Obama pulled off while at Harvard Law years ago suggest what he might try again in dealing with a divided Congress? During a particularly heated period at the law school, he was able to bring people together and build bridges to disparate factions, even while angering his supporters. More about his Harvard Law days from FRONTLINE's interviews with some classmates and journalists. And view the full program, The Choice 2008....
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In the News

Again...the Threat From Yemen

October 28, 2010
Suspicious packages on board cargo planes were sent from Yemen and thus potentially could be Al Qaeda-linked plots. VIEW why Yemen has long been a seedbed for terrorism--
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True to Qaeda's Cause

October 24, 2010
Gitmo detainee Omar Khadr pleaded guilty to killing a U.S. soldier with a grenade in Afghanistan in 2002. He was 15. Khadr's sister tells FRONTLINE, so what if he did?
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