>> narrator: now, two stors on this special editio of frontline. first, in afghanistan, with peace talks ongoing... >> we've been wanting to make a de and so have the taliban... >> narrator: correspondent najibullah quraishi on the ground with taliban and isis ghters. >> mullah barada is the co-founder of the taliban. >> narrator: and an exclusive interview with the taliban leader negotiating with the u.s. and later, in angola-- a worldwide investigation of africa's richest woman. >> in this case the daughter of >> narrator: a trove of more

than 700,000 leaked documents. >> so there is an orchestrated attack by the current government that is completely pally motivated. >> narrator: and how big-name american companies are involved. >> they're helping a very, very rich woman who's taking money from angolan taxpayers become even more rich. >> narrator: these two stories on this special edit frontline. >> frontline imade possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. and by the corporation for public broadcasting. major support is provided by the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation, commted to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. and by the ford foundation: n working with visionariese frontlines of social change worldwide. idadditional support is pr by the abrams foundation, committed to excellence in journalism the park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical ises. the john and helen glessner supporting trustworthy

journalism that informs and inspires. the heing-simons foundation: unlocking knowledge, opportunity, and possibilities. and by the frontle journalism fund, with major support from jon and jo ann hagler. >> a soldierrom fort bragg was killed after an explosion in afghanistan. >> in anotr deadly attack, a car bomb exploded in a crowded street. 95 people are dead. >> a bunch of people have been killed in eastern afghanistan in an airstrike carried out by government and u.s. forces. >> two americans were killed during a military operation early today, casualties of the longest war in american history. >> narrator: november 2019, afghanistan. journalist najibullah quraishi is making a dangerous journey into taliban territory. >> we just left kabul.

our driver was warning, saying there are going toe taliban, it's going to be a problem foru. yo those big holes are all from the ied explosions. >> narrar: najibullah has been 20 years.the war here for almost (gunfire) he was here in 2001 when the u.s. and its allies invaded and drove the taliban from power. in the decade that followed, they filmed many times with the taliban as they fought back andn rega territory across the country. and in 2015,e met with isis fighters when the group was first emerging here. now, najibullah has returnedo his home country at a critical moment. president trump hacommitted to end america's longest war, and has even been negotiating a peace deal with the taliban. but the siation on the ground remains violent and unpredictable. >> the driver is telling me, the day before yesterday, there was

three explosions. they put an ied, and mainly for the government vehicles. >> arrator: najibullah is heading into a taliban stronghold neathe city of ghazni, less than 100 miles from the capitol, kabul. >> this is ghazni town. it's under control of the government, but they control just the government compound. last night was fighting, from behind these shops.ba the talin, they were attacking on the government. it's mean they are everywhere. narrator: he's had to make a complicated plan to get into the taliban-controlled territory. >> must go witthe drivers from the same area, because the car is known for the taliban this is the car they suggested to be there. (horn nks) this was the last checkpoint we just crossed.

from here onrd, the taliban, they're in power. ♪ >> narrator: u.s. and afghan forces had driven the taliban from this strategic mountain valley, but now, this is taliban country. >> we are in the town where we are supposed to be. there is a talib wh a walkie-talkie. maybe he is going to direct us, i don't know. ra >> nr: najibullah and his team are met by a local commander. armed fighters. by more and more they head to the group's base, which flies the white flag of the taliban. najibullah is concerned that such a large group could be the taet of an airstrike. >> we want to do the interviews very fast, because of the drone.

>> narrator: the taliban leadere claim they now control more teitory than at any point since the u.s. invaded in 2001. (speaking local language): >> narrator: the afghan government disputes this, and claims it controls 94% of the population. ♪ but to show the extent of their territory, the talibanere let najibullah and his team fly a they perform military drills out in the open. ahmadi (speaking local language)

ga narrator: the fighters er around najibullah's colleague,m karishah, who's been operating the drone camera. >> narrator: another commander leads them to one of the villages under taliban control. (engine humming)w there are feople on the streets. but after the taliban escort leaves, one resident approaches them. man (speaking local language):

>> narrator: the taliban is seeking ultimate control of the country, and refuses to negotiate with the afghan government, which it regards as a u.s. puppet. najibullah asks the commandersld here what it wake to end the fighting. >> narrator: for over a year, as part of thu.s. effort to withdraw from afghanistan, the trump administration has been conducting on-and-off negotiations with the taliba leadership. but the fighters here were frustrated that presidentrump had recently suspended the talks after an american soldier was killed.

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>> narrator: najiblah and his team are escorted out of the valley ♪ they take the battle-scaed road back to kabul. ♪ he's surprised by what he's seen and heard from the taliban. >> this specific group i met, they were completely different than previous groups i've met before. rmally, when i was embedding with a group of the taliban, they were preparing for fighting, to block the road, but this group wasompletely different. they didn't have anything to make them worry, because the entire area was belong to them.b >> narrator: bond the taliban's gains, the fate of afghanistan is also tied to the threat from isis.

while the group has lost most of its territorin iraq and syria, its militants are still active here. they claim to have thousands of fighters, and have been responsible for major attacks in kabul. >> my next plan is to meet a group of isis in afghanistan. i already send the request to different regions of afghanistan. currently, i'm on standby, and i'm waiting for the phone calls. ♪ the afghan government makes a major announcement.th claim that more tn 600 isis fighters and their families have surrendered. in an interview, the afghan national security advisor insists that isis, or daesh, noo er poses a threat. >> daesh has been a threat inan aftan. t ey committed some... a lot of brutal acts agair people. att we are glad to report we have managed to eliminate their sanctuaries in afghanistan.

i can't sathat their ideology is completely eliminated, but they don't have territorial country anymore.arof the >> narrator: but the next y, najibullah gets word that an isis cell is willing to meet him. he is told to head north. ♪ he flies into the city of mazar-i-sharif. a go-between will take him to isis. >> when you go somewhere, you else, they can do whatever they want to. >> why do it, then? >>ell, is very important to rnfind out, because the gont sometimes they sayeah, isis is a big threat." in another hand, they say, "no isis is gone from afghanistan. i really wanted to know either they're really gone from afghanistan, or they're really here.

this evening, basically, a guy came from inside them to take me tomorrow down there, so you're going to go with me.er he's vpositive, he says don't be scared, nothing will happen. but still, when i go there, say, "okay, oh god, this is...y this is end offe. just forgive me if i did anything wrong." >> narrator: najullah leaves his team behind, and heads off before dawn with the go-between. ♪ he films the journey intthe baghlan province, in the foothills of the hindu kush mountains. he has to change cars three times, for security reasons. s eventually, he iined by two armed isis fighters. they arrive at the rendezvous point.

♪ after an hour, figures begin tof emerm the mountains. l man (speaking language): najib: >> narrator: the isis commander is eager to show off the weapons his men are using, as well as

their close-combat drills. man: >> narrator: he claims that many of the men here are former talibafighters, and that in the event of a peace deal with the americans, many more taliban will defect to isis. (men cha (men chantg) najib: man:

♪ >> narrator: back in kabul, there's more news. president trump has de a surprise visit to afghanistan. he's announced that the peace talks with the taliban will resume in the gulf state of qatar. >> we've been wanting to make a and we're going tountilaliban, such time as we have a deal, or we have total victory. >> seems that peace negotiions are going to be on again, according to what he said. i hope ts time is going to be happen, some things, because all the people in afghanistan wants peace. if they don't make that's fine. ♪ >> newly released documents raise serious questions about whether the american people were lied to about the progress of the war in afghanistan.

>> narrator: the peaks are about to resume amid revelations that u.s. officials elfor yeyes have been privco eding they've lost the war. >> for the last 18 years, according to the government reports, senior u.s. officials have been mieading the american public about the war in afghanistan.wa >> it's a war ington is struggling to finish, and donald trump says peace lies in theha s of the taliban. >> we're here to talk with a taliban representative about the peace negotiations, and we are trying to nd out what will happen next. >> narrator: shortly before broadcast, najibullah secures an exclusive interview with the taliban's lead negotiator, mullah baradar. mullah baradar is a very, very big person within the taliban nk. he was the co-founder of the taliban, the person who has very, very close to mullah omar, the main leader of the

taliban who died some years ago. eihe has been in prison fot years in pakistan and he has been released in 2018. (speaking local language): >> narrator: najibullah presses him on how the taliban will exercise power if the u.s. leaves afghanistan, d whether they've moderated their hardline practices. to

>> nar his answer is ambiguous. women will have rights, but onl accord the taliban's interpretation of islamic sharia law. >> narrator: another looming question for the taliban is how it will handle isis.

>> narrator: he insists the taliban, not the government, have been leading the fight against isis in afghanistan. ♪

>> narrator: as the peace talks restart, t u.s. has asked the taliban leadership to prove it can control itsgr fighters on thnd by calling a ceasefire. is, meanwhile, is watching, and waiting. >> narrator: coming up next on this special edition of frontline... in angola, how did the president's daughter become one ofhe richest women in the world? >> i am looking at the enablers that have helped her get money out of angola and into the financial system.e global >> angolan authorities have embarked on a very, very

selective witch hunt. >> narrator: "the luanda leaks" begins ght now. ♪ ar >> narrator:, september 2019. the internationaconsortium of investigative journalists has gathered together reporters from almost 40 organizations, including "frontline," toab coate on a new investigation. >> so our first two guests are the peopleho actually brought us the documents. >> narrator: they've been given a cache of leaked documents by a group called the platform to protect whistleblowers in africa. thhe700,000 files-- known as luanda leaks-- are all related b to theiness interests of angolan billionairisabel dos

santos-- contracts, loanen agre, bank transfers, invoices, emails; documents mapping the complex struure of her business empire. "new york times" investigative reporter michael forsythe is part of the collaborion... >> the story of isabel dos santos has been out there foa few years. there have been these ports about potential corr, this accumulating wealth from angola. but these documents, i think, really kind of connect the dots and document a lot of that. >> narrator: isabel dos ntos is one of the world's richest women. she has properties in dubai, celebrity friends.yacht; and with interests in banking, mobile phoneompanies, and oil, she is reported to be worth more than $2 billion. she has always said she's earned

it on her own. >> i think that angola is merit driven, so whatever i have t achievre, i think it has been through merit. i've also started working a vert loe ago, so... (chuckles) over two decades ago, and the success that i have today is not something that came overnight. >> narrator: but there's another side to her story. she's the daughter of jose eduardo dos santos. for 38 years, he wasdent of angol under his rule, much of thela popuon liv in extreme povey while the country was widely reported to be one of the most corrupt in the world. tom burgis is a reporter w's investigated the dos santos family. (audience applauding) >> a lot of the people around jose eduar dos santos have become immensely rich-- family members, generals, sen

politicians, people who run the oil industry they have all used those sitions for massive self-enrichment at the cost of the ordinaryngolan. (man introducing dos santos) >> narrator:n 2017, president dos santos steppedown. the new angolan government has now opened a cminal investigation into isabel dos saying that she anher husband are responsible r mo than $1 billion in lost state funds. she denies any wrongdoing and says she is being politically persecuted. >> so all of this boils down to is isabel what she says she is-- self-made billionae-- or is she the creature of a kleptocratic, corrupt dictatorship? >> narrator: for more than six months, "frontline" and the team of reporters working with the icij have been examiningnd

verifying the leaked documents, investigating how isabel dos santos made her money. the story of her fortune is tied to angola's most precious natural resource-- oil. sonangol is the country's state oicompany. >> sonangol is the leline of angola. over 90 percent of as exports come from oil, sonangol. so it's essentially the het that pumps blood to our vessels. ♪ >> narrator: rafael marquez is a journalist who's been porting on ibel dos santos for more than a decade. >> essentially the way isabel

dos santos built her fortune was by using her father's sition, and by using also sonangol as her cash cow and private bank to finance her activities. >> narrator: in 2006, isabel dos antos and her husband mad crative deal with sonangol. sonangol owned a stake in the profitable portuguese energy company galp and agreed to sell them 40 percent of it. the documents reveal that the terms of the deal were highly favorable to the daughter of the president. the price for the galp share was 75 million euros. but isabelos santos paid just 11.2 million euros, or 15 percent, up front. the remaining 63 million wasrr

defeed-- in effect, a loan from the state oil company. financial crime, hmined in the icij documents. >> so, you look at any transaction and the first question you should ask urself is why? why did she get a great deal from the sta oil company? was it simply a way of transferring value to the daughter of the president? i think it is impossible to come to any other conclusion than she s benefited from state funds. >> narrator: isabel dos santos's stake in galp is now worth around $800 million. she declined to be interviewed by the icij and its partners, but shortly before broadcast shb spoke news reporter andrew harding and defended the deal.os >> all of transactions are perfectly legal transactions, commercial transactis that were engaged by commercial companies according to the law.

there's absolutely no wrongdoing in any of those transactions. >> narrator: she says sonangol's investment in galp was her idea in the first place, and it's been a windfall for angola too. >> this investment is thent investhat in history has generated the most benefit for the national oil company. >> narrator: more a decade later, dos santos and the new angolan government areighting over the terms of repaying the loan she was extended. but the deal remains emblemati and puic money to amass herition fortune. >> it's one of the cleares examples of the interests of the state blurring with her own interests. and that is the opposite of the narrative she wants to put forward about herself. >> narrator: in the that follow, the documents show how isabel dos santos and her husband t up a network of companies in tax and secrecy havens for their gwing wealth. a

then they maajor move into another of angola's most lucrative industries: diamonds. (fireworks crackling) as with the oil deal, they used public money to do so. in 2012, dos santos's husband, sindika dokolo, partnered with the state-run diamond company sodiam. together they bought the luxury swiss jeweler de grisogono. ♪ 50it was structured as a 5 partnership with sodiam.t e documents show that by mid-2013, while sodiam had paid $79.5 million, sindiolo's company initially had only put in $million, and he'd gotten that from state-owned sodiam as a "success fee" for brokering the deal.

so the state ends up funding an opptunity for isabel dos santos and her husband to make an acquisition from which they obviously will befit. it's a classic example of somebody close to, in this case, the daughter of the president beg able to use that relationship to benefit themselves. >> narrator: the documents reveal a further twist. in order to finance the deal,rr sodiam had to the money. owned by isabel dos santos. and the prident himself signed a decree guaranteeing that the government would pay back his daughter's bank if sodiam couldn't. andrew feinstein investigates corruption cases for a british advocacy group.>> n effect what is happening here is that the president of a couny is guaranteeing a loan

to his own daughter's bankn order r the daughter's husband to gain a very lucrative stake in a swiss-owned jewelry company. >> narrator: the documents alsow shhat the deal gave sindika dokolo control of the company. r der his watch, de gr hosted and paid vish celebrity parties at the cannes film festival. >> let us not forget that the money ing used is money that belongs to the people of angola. the majority of those people i liabject poverty. >> narrator: through h lawyers, sindika dokolo defended the deal and said the l parties weregstanding marketing practice to promote the luxury brand. he also said he we on to invest $115 millioof his own money into the company. for her part, isabel dos santos says she had no role in de

grisogono. >> well, i'm n a shareholder in de grisogono. i've said that many times, and i'll repeat th again, i'm not a shareholder in de grisogono. would not be able to answeri simply by the simple fact that i'm not a shareholder. t >> narrator: b documents do show she had personal ties to the company. these bank formsist her as an economic beneficiary, and an owner of the holding company that controls de grisogono. ♪ the diamond deal is now at the government's investigation into isabel dos santos.cu thent head of sodiam says the deal has been a disaster for the angolan people. man (speaking portuguese):

er >> okay, and if s a way if he's not there, is there anyone i can leave aessage with or a voicemail or something like that for him? >> narrator: as part of the icij collaboration, "new york times" reporter michael forsythe has come to portugal's capital lisbon to investigate the role american companies have playedsa inl dos santos's ventures. >> i'm lking at the enablers-- basically the international group of very respectable companies, accountants, consultants, and law firms and nks that have helped her set up companies aund the world to, to facilitate all her ansactions, to get out g angola and into the, the

bloodstream of tbal financial system. it's american companies that are legitimizingise in wealth, you know, this person, isabel dos santos, daughter of the long-time president, making her richer and using angolan state money to do it. >> narrator: when sindika dokolo first bought in to de grisogonoa it was in finatrouble. ♪ this letter, and organizational chart, reveal that hhired the u.s. management firm bostonti cons group to help turn it around. >>e know from the documents that many banks were... stayed away from her, the international banks, because there are very strict anti-corruption rules, and they have, you know, lots of compliance officers. and we see from the emails thath were reluctant to do business with her, but boston consulting groupas not.

why did they agree to work with ntthiserson, isabel dos ? ♪ >> narrator: in fact some of the consultants went on to leave bcg and become the jewelry company's top executives. one of them, now based in lisbon, has agreed to meet forsythe off camera. >> when i told him that i wanted to talkbout de grisogono, the jewelry company, and isabel dos santos, he froze up he said, "i have a confidentiality agreement. don't like to talk about that." he was clear that he was quite scared, i thought. and he got up very quickly though, and said, "sorry, i can't talk to you," and left right away. um, well, that's not the bestr outcome interview, obviously. it did give me the impression of how sensitive this issue is.

>> narrator: back in the united states, forsythe gets an official response from bostonul ng group. they say they only worked with de grisogono for a short te, on three specific projects.he >> so,re downplaying their role. but since then i've had a chance to talk to some of the ex-bost consulting group people. you know one of the guys i talked to said "yeah, basicallyc alled shadow management", is the term he used. that we're going in and kind of pulling the strings i guessom getting thisny back in order. >> narras it took steps "to ensure complice with est with established policies and avoid corruption andther risks." but consulting firms aren't und by the same strict regulations as banks concerning the political backgrounds ofnt their cland the provenance of their money. >> companies like bcg in this case are providing a veneer of

respectability that makes what's happening acceptable or more acceptable than it mightrw ote be. >> narrator: bcg wasn't the only western company involved in the dos santos business empire. one big accounting firm, pricewaterhousecoopers, has played a major role. they had an inside view of the de grisogono diamond deal: they were responsible for auditing the millions of dollars going in and out of the company. the documents show how pwce was awere was no paperwork for some of that money; and that there were other accounting irregularities. ♪ >> so if i was at c, i'd be conducting a pretty thorough dit of what decisions were ma, and in hindsht actually did we make the wrong decision to accept this businesand should we have reported what we had been presented with? >> narrar: pwc said it is investigating the "serious and

concerning allegations" and has terminated all work with the dos santos family. pwc's global chairman says employees may be fired. ♪ in 2013, one year after the diamond deal, isabel dos santos moved to extend her business empire with a major land develoent project in her home country. as part of the icij collaboration, portuese jourlist micael pereira has come to angola to investigate the deal. >> so there will be a boulevard here. and beyond the boulevard there will be really beautiful buildings and gardens, luxury residences that are... that were conceid by a company of isabel dos santos together with foreig. compan >> narrator: the aolan

government would award contractj for the prt to two companies owned by isabel dos santos. the plans were authorized byhe father. these letters, contracts, andco emails show heanies stood to make hundreds of millions of dollars. in h bbc interview, she said the project included new roads to alleviate chron traffic in the capital city. >> this is aroject that would have made a difference to, to luanda, but most of all, this is a solution that we proposed because it's a solution that in terms of cost and return and benefits to the city of luanda and to the people of luanda, it has very high social benefits. >> narrator: but the land, lg the site of other developmentan had people living on its weter the president approved his daughter's plan, the residents were evicted.

(speaking portuguese): >> narrator: around 500 families settled on this strip across from their former homes. >> i've never been in-in a place like this. this is shocking. these people live among all this, this garbage. they build their houses where they could. they live basically between two sewage systems in the open air.

>> narrator: the residentsay cholera, tb, and malaria are rife. (people shouting, whistl blowing) woman (speaking portuguese): >> narrator: fatima and her ildren live here with four other families.

>> nrator: isabel dos santos and her lawyers say her plan was designed to avoid any evictions, using "reclaimed land from the sea." but the documents contn maps that show her development covered the area where the e.icted families used to l the new angolan government would ultimately removisabel dos santos from the project. the development remains built. around the same time as the land deal, angola's oil industry was in trouble. prices were falling and there were management sues at. sonang to fix the problems, the president turned to his daughter. her lawyers helped draft a presidential decree establishins a coon to restructure

sonangol. then, one of her offshore compans was hired to do the work. >> so here is a transaction in which the company owned by the daughter of the president wins the contract to restructure sonangol, the most important state-own company in angola. you've got to ask yourself the question, why would sonangol employ a company paid through malta-- whh is an offshore jurisdiction, very opaque, very problematic-- to provide advice and services to it? >> narrator: the documents show that dos santos's company would be paid 8.5 million euros for its rk. the company kept a lot of that s money, though contracted to consultants like bcg to help wig. the sonangol restructur

through her lawyers, isabel dosh santos saigovernment chose her company because "she is one very few angolans with substantial international business experience." ♪ would soon go much deeper.l in june 2016, as the company was being restructured, president dos santos fired sonangol's board and put his ughter in charge. >> we need to understand here that president dos santos passed a presidtial decree. he, as the supreme law in the land, passes a law to make h the head of sonangol, the state oil company.

it ia blatant and brazen move, using hialmost total political power to benefitd himself s family. >> narrator: again, isabel dos santos rejects such criticism. y r father put you in that position... >> it wasn't my father, it was the government, but anyway... (chuckling): we can go through that. it was the commissio.. >> it's the time when your resident.s >> ...it was commission of-- i was invited to head sonangol by the commission of oil and gas restructuring. i worked for tm as a consultant, that then, after i had finished my consultancyme work, invitend said would i consider the position to become sonangol's chairperson. r >> narrator: he as chairperson wouldn't last long. by september 2017, everything s changing for the dos santos family. her father was nowut of power, and the new president was launching an anti-corruption drive.

within weeks, he sacked isabelos dos sants the head of sonangol. the new government would soon open a criminal investigation into millions ofollars in payments made in her last hours at sonangol. the money was sent to a company here in dubai called matter business solutions. ♪ cu the nts show that matter s s a consulting company that isabel dos santong-time business manager helped run, and that it's sole shareholder was a friend named pau iveira. >> there is clearly a relationship between isabel dos santos and the company we are talking about, and indeed the owner of that mpany who is a friend of isabel dos santos, so is it a legal relationship no. is there a relationship in the way that most people would consider a relationship to be?ly absolu m

>> narratoter sent a stream of invoices to sonangol. some had little detail about what theills were for. this one says "support t chairman in communications"-- 384,000 euros. and this one for "unspecified2, expenses"-- 0 euros.ym the t orders bear isabel dos santos's signature. one of tm, for $38 million, was on the day she was ousted. the next day, a total of $57.8 milliowas withdrawn from one of sonangol's bank accounts and sent to matt. both oliveira and dos santosst inatter was an independent and legitimate firm, not a dos iantos proxy, that was owed money for substawork it did for sonangol.'s oliveiawyers say she sent the invoices when she learned dos santos was being fired.

in her interview with the bbc, dos santos stressed that the payments were to settlend outsg bills. >> all the servis rendered under the contract are known services and they were delivered and rendered, and all the invoices are invoices thatco arted to services rendered. that was well-knowhentract angolan government authorities. they knew... everybody that y worked on the project, tt wi them on a regular basis. >> wve received copies of these invoices for the 57wo million and ered if i could show you some of them and >> well, i will noamiliar with the invoices themlves. >> here, for instance, 472,000 ros, um, and there's no explanation for what these expenses are... >> well, i will not beiar with the... >> but you signed off on these. >> well, the way sonangol works... >> and again, if i can... >> this is good that you...os >> two here, aidentical,

for 676, and then again for 676,000. >> yeah. >> and, again, very vague... accounting here. >> are you sure, are you sure that there are no more documents that should be supplied to you anthey're probably not in here, because it looks to me... >> there are many more, there are many more. >> well, that's what i'm saying, that's why it looks to me... t >> a concern is that this fits in with the explanation or authorities that eally thegolan funds were being looted at the last minute. >> of course they were not, of cour not, that dsn't, that doesn't make any sense. >> narrator: dos santos left angola as the criminal investigation of her was getting underway ♪ authorities there say they want her back. man (speaking portuguese):

>> narrator: in late december, afr icij reporters submitt questions, the angolan government froze the assets of dos santos and her husband. angolan authorities are now going througthe many years of dos santos's deals. t they sy are being helped by the u.s., u.k., portugal, and others. accordg to the new president, isabel dos santos and sindika dokolo could face prison time. the couple insists that the investigations and leaked documents are all part of a coordinated political attack. >> angolan authorities have embarked on a very, very selective witch hunt.

a very selective witch hunt that suits the purpose of saying that there is two or three people that are related to the family, or a family of president dos santos.re now, look, i rthat angolas osen this path, i think that we all stand a lot to lose. ♪ d narrator: for many golans, this is a watersment. >> isabel dos santos hasf billionsllars. it's only a matter of time befo the angolan stateomes in full force to reclaim wt belongs to the angolan people. we need that money to get to a new place. change the way we ink about what a governmen for, what ruling is about, and how to

serve the country and the and the people. (people talking indistctly) >> narrator: next time... t >>his is just the beginning.to >> narra a violent neo-nazi movement... >> whado you think was going on in this house? >> they were making bombs. >> interrogator: >> male speaker: ro >> narrator: fntline and propublica investigate... military members, thaecruiting >> male speaker: >> go to pbs.org/frontline forv e latestopments in the luanda leaks investigation and more of our exclusive interview with the taliban negotiar. >> we want tdo the interviews

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david m. kennedy: the american story is all aboon individual aspirati and achievement. this is the land of abrtlutely unlimited oppounity. we can become whoever we want to be. we can go wherever we want to go. it's part of our national myth. indeed, no society can cohere over time if it doesn't possess some myths that people believe in common. rids: that's what hols together, this great american creed that it doesn't matter where you camerom. it matters where you're going. condoleezza rice: it starts th us as americans regathering ourselves around values, experiences, stories, if you will, about what it is to be an american.