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Article: Return to Swat Valley.(WORLD)(State of Emergency documentary)(Brief article)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- February 25, 2008
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Last May, the Monitor sent David Montero to Pakistan's Swat Valley, where he was the first Western journalist to interview a reclusive Taliban cleric known as the "Radio Mullah." A few months later, the armed followers of Maulana Fazlullah captured more than 60 towns in the Swat Valley, just 100 miles from Pakistan's capital, Islamabad.
David's trip became the basis of a three-part series "Testing Ground: The battle for Pakistan's frontier provinces," that appeared in the Monitor. In this FRONTLINE/World video, David talks about his experience meeting the young cleric, who served him sugar-cane juice and told him that he wanted "to wipe out the darkness of ...