Kabul Falling (w/ Nelufar Hedayat & Bradley Hope)

It was 21 years ago this week that 19 Al-Qaeda terrorists hi-jacked commercial airplanes and crashed them in to the World Trade Towers and the Pentagon killing nearly three thousand Americans. That murderous act prompted the US Government to invade Afghanistan and where Taliban rulers were protecting Osama Bin Laden and other Al-Qaeda leaders. It was the start of the country's longest war stretching over two decades, only to end disastrously last August when President Biden pulled out all US troops and the Taliban re-took control of the country. For most Americans, Afghanistan is a country that evokes vague unpleasant memories that are fast being forgotten. 

But a new podcast, Kabul Falling, reminds us that for millions of Afghans, the US withdrawal was only the start of a horrific nightmare as Taliban fighters went house to house searching for American collaborators while Taliban leaders methodically stripped the country’s women of all their rights and barring them from attending school. We talk to the host of Kabul Falling Nelafur Heydayat, a refugee herself, as well as the podcast’s executive producer and former Wall Street Journal reporter Bradley Hope, to discuss what they discovered in the aftermath of the US withdrawal and what it pertains to the future.

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