go up to muslims. the war on terror created the perfect atmosphere for racism, discrimination clamp downs on civil liberties and government spying its been 20 years. that war continues with all its fear and manipulation with no end in sight. caleb martin, r t. new york. you will see a lot of coverage here from moscow, and these pictures coming in on the news was now from new york city. lo, manheim, not one of the memorials, of course, studying the very spot where one of those twin towers stood. 20 years ago, even at this time. but of course, 15 minutes from now is where everything unraveled. history was changed. we're going to continue our coverage here and i'll see international in the coming hours on this 20th anniversary of $911.00. ah. ah

the oh oh, i came in the year before the september 11th attacks, when the taliban were in power, afghanistan produced literally 0 heroin, no heroine. and after the 911 attacks, they got to a point by 2010 where they were producing 93 percent of the world. terran,

i know this because i was the chief investigator on the senate foreign relations committee staff at the time. and i went to afghanistan in 2009 to study the problem . the positive trouble is called polar soft, which means does money. a favorite haunt, the drug addicts. it's easy to buy, how she's opium or heroine here. neither during the soviet presence in afghanistan, nor after it under the taliban could this possibly have been imaginable ah, in 2000, in an attempt to boost the taliban image, its leader mohammed omar, and opium poppy cultivation, anywhere on us canister soil. with this you get

on got the little some of them minimum the soonest. the limits of the question got the, what does, what is this is this of what we're looking for for which is or still get a and he'll be nipple supplies on the face for me to clean us and they come, i mean, you got the budget then i will go, patricia, but it was not the pursues . this video was filmed in 2015. the numbers have only grown since then. i've gone down is nell d, undisputed world leader in opium production. i hope you failed acreage has now expanded to rival the size of some european countries. afghanistan confidently hold 1st place and heroine production. that lead

is growing every year by 2009. the corruption index in africa is still the lowest or the next to lois. how did the african economies survive through opium, through drug trade? there were attempts to change that they never succeeded. and the people in charge were very, very corrupt pharaoh and kills and feeds at the same time. to day one, f gunny intend is directly linked to opium production. in a country ravaged by war, trading in the opium puppy ended derivatives has pretty much become the only source of income for afghanistan. rural poll, well giving international drug rings. another way to generate huge profits. well, i went to lush guard guy, which is the capital of hellman problems, and that's where most of the hair when poppy is grown. and i very naive,

lee went to meet with a poppy farmer. and i said to him, instead of poppy, why don't you grow things with 2 growing seasons, onions, tomatoes, pomegranate. and he said with frustration, you know, the americans told me in 2001 that if i told them where are the arabs where i could grow all the poppy i wanted. and now you come and tell me i can't grow poppy. so i came back and i told john kerry, who was my boss at the time, this is a real problem. we have to do something about heroin bobby cultivation. and he said why? i said, because it's 93 percent of the world's poppy heroine poppy. and he said right, and it all goes to iran and russia, and we don't care if their heroin addicts and so we never did anything. ah, so the, it's produced in afghanistan, us shipped all over the world through well established smuggling channels around

the globe of gun us times opium industry, kills hundreds of thousands of people. every the explosive growth in opium production is one of the main byproducts of the us presence in afghanistan. and arguably, americans only real legacy after leaving the country. no substantial infrastructure has been built in 20 years. scorched is all that the of god. these have left when you sign, you go to me to go to black, usually. go to prove these 2 menu choose all been done in youth get to is we will go to the gus just and she took me ask you to come to go to conduct that career to put just on the though should be good. so what do you need done? voice cur, americans of black. you will probably begin you at the top,

but i will get them now, but it is all a chest. as with your wish list, you have your some money, but the only real way to judge the 20 years of american presence in afghanistan is by looking at the abandoned military bases. no industrial or social facilities were ever built in those years. in fact, throughout this time, if again it's done continues to benefit from the soviet legacy side up on the status of the work that you can put your money that you're on or somebody can be that was always. yeah, they know the as a very highly the duty facility this started key much better. but i would like to know

what the rules are. pretty common genius for each of the sun or or you're going to go pretty know what it can do that. ah, indeed tough going to stand still benefits from infrastructure that the soviet union built with moscow support. 150 major facilities were constructed thousands of kilometers of mountain road, the salon tunnel, connecting the northern and central regions, as well as dams, oil. dep owes factories, hospitals and schools, not to mention an irrigation system installed by soviet specialists, that helped defeat hunger, ah, a cousin which was loyal of all that as an option that was jaycee, but either from colonial is co capital. most policies you have your addition for these 2. i mean you can work with dora. i thought actually you guys came. so would you please if she was on your, for the last only,

can you go go ahead. i'm on the list and i look at what he was completely out of very much as could tell you. but when you process the leash vision, ah, as i said, getting them. i get their existence and guess and i will put it when it was 3 years goes to 0 to measure it goes past which increase your mr. mission to said miss galant studies, a map of his homeland woven into an oriental carpet. he knows every province, city and village bookish luck like the back of his hand at the origin or general shape package. after the nudge below, government was overthrown. in the spring of 992 jello was one of many

high ranking up gun officials who were forced to flee. the country was repeated for the majority of the lustre. shit, and i mean, it's just what happened and it was never an indication that any but initially show the source of its initial and from the 1st of the prettiest net on my all of them. i see me national talk about with the us yesterday. i didn't you ship here, we don't push then you just let us boy, i mean i don't for the lose. it doesn't look to see my adverse go about another minute. i'm going to what i'm going to do the free lunch with the mother of surgical projects and them doing

that, you know, but yes, i go in there for several decades. their homeland has no, no peace, and no more people than ever are trying to flee the country. the residence of with origin, which i don't know the thumbs isn't it. would you through the, through the origin which is through the but the kiss through the private, based on new winners and when and when the soviets invaded in 1979, we get into some of that history because it's very important. g, u. s. began working with the moon. and the reason why the dean hate is the pro soviet government was because the pro soviet government was allowing women to get

educated was supporting land reform and supporting industrialization and modernization. there was a reactionary, backward islamic extremists, elements of the moon, whether one's the united states, put it and overthrew the more progressive pro sylvia government. that was giving women rights. and so for the united states now to be the moaning, the fate of women, there's a little bit of hypocrisy. they're given us. history of us involving my own daughters are going to school less. can they go to school right now? they go to shop, they go to pay the food because we are talked by doors, extremist, elements, terrorists who don't want us educated. we must add charters or to send or

school children to school or go to school. never give up on that. i would, i'm sure millions of accounts wouldn't give up on me. the these terrorists play by a whole set of different rules. it's going to force us in your words to get mean 30 and nasty in order to take them on, right. we'll use all tools at our disposal to do so. my name is a monarch committee . i'm the head of a family member can, can on i will be killed. our children will never forgive me differently. i pity my what you like. it was doing and they were bringing people to watch a sight, guns ordering and abusing them outside of the law and then allowing some of them to

go back home and they would go home and tell people this is what the americans we know and look at it it was a pointless exercise in the let me. oh, oh. oh, see oh guess enter in couple was established in 2017 dozens of afghan women attended here every day. talk com.

kathy, well educated with strong leadership skills and business pro s. there are very few people like her enough ganawe's done. every day she makes her way to the studio where she is greeted by waiting. yogurt enthusiasts and my son, the mom like capsule sunday. through that holiday header city. the city behind these walls does a very different f ganna stuff. well, then i got the loan. i kept all tickets, check pushes. she doesn't want to pounding them on the same level or you can buy news

despite all the precautions. she started receiving phone threats that each glass. how about at the the mother of the media, meet chap fate. which has some sort of command on them. have a john last trip but now with the taliban back. we can't reveal her face with the white flags with the black shadow. now fly over every state building not just income bowl, but in every major city and every check point. the taliban brought the convictions and symbols. new rules are now in place.

women's faces on advertising posters in couple have been painted over beauty cell and boarded up. women are obliged to wear the bercher. as a result, both demand and price have increased $10.00 times since the taliban arrived. and this is just the beginning. i believe in the strictest interpretation of serial law . they will be amputating people's arms. they were hanging people, they were certainly almost imprisoning women when they were in control, it was a very, very backward society. will it be that bad? now? we don't know for sure, but a certainly the plight of women in afghanistan is not something that i'm very optimistic about me in the 990 s totally been imposed. the harshest restrictions on women female f gun astonish could be stoned to death. but failing

to worry about joe in public, they will submit to leave their homes without a male relative. women were denied both in education and korea's, and even medical care. all these rules were enforced by the religious belief. now that totally been claimed that they have changed and will let women be educated, have a job, serve, and even hold government positions. these claims lack credibility are often contradicted by the fact. oh yes, we are in this moment to the very, very difficult spot. there is immense violence who is this immense unger in our country. there's vacuum failed to get the sun. and there was the presence of the international community in america for, for 20 years. natal boys and girls must now attend separate classes. women a band from all sports without full face and body covering while female soldiers

fear for their life. the taliban see that despite shari'a law, african women's rights will be protected. i don't rely or put my faith in the taliban. i know for rick history and the fears that many people in afghanistan have, but we have to we have to hope it's not clear yet that the taliban will be worse than egypt or saudi arabia or israel, or 50 countries that the united states openly arms and supports and funds and trains. so if we're going to get the u. s. government to talk about human rights, that's the 1st step. there's a whole world out there. the 1st step is to stop arming the worst human rights abusers on earth, because it's so clear and easy. more than 2000000 africans have fled to other countries as refugees. people started leaving in large numbers a few years ago when the americans were still there. they left because they'd

abandoned all hope of seeing peace restored to their homeland. and after the taliban, the number of people wanting to flee has increased dramatically. they include not only women, but journalists, public figures, interpreters, and anyone else who worked with foreigners and helped to build a brighter future for afghanistan over the last 20 years. mm. but well educated people weren't the only ones trying to leave ferrying life under the taliban. ordinary folks from the provinces had to abandoned their homes to they tried to save their families from the atrocities of law in the sunsets over a refugee camp on the outskirts of missouri. saudis, another day has passed just like every previous day. it's been a struggle with us. a bible me describes

herself as a spokesperson for the refugee camp. is 30 families, mostly ethnic. it was backs me thought a model. madame. listen, a party of us, the none of us and my mother in i'm at that a good that all that on a shout, a jamie, the resources are not going to jag mitch's the mail, nothing and i'm jeremy on them is that the golem is done up on my way, don't call them out of the pay out of that. i didn't call them calling you to say that about that whole number, but that's it. all i rags blown in the wind fabric bleached by the scorching sun, a half hazard array of impromptu huts that sprouted in the middle of the desert. people who abandoned their homes and applause have been gardens. of now lived in these squalid conditions for a year. i knew still going to guide me

and then the other. good luck. i'm going to do my that if you be i will need to call me back. you can get my new sticky motor. i just another number moment. i'll get everybody out with it at all. and then they get their mom you had in the got to do that kind of some of the heavy stuff. i'm with them when they're going to i don't know megan made them. megan. the mom called on and got him push it down. and mike does not join me on my cell and via us in a minute. again, i'm to go home. comes in the show. like what i can, if i'm isn't comes in, they get me get that you make out of them on a shawl. bush are much is damaging. the engine was a yeah. no, no push. got me. what about i don't show any english i can only if i'm you know

young women are shot they don't know what the punjab i got for them. i give me a good monday, monday and i'm going and even here the refugee is worry about their children. even among those who regard themselves as a literate, as a strong awareness that a good education is critical for that country's future matter. the way i want to thinking up almost as this is not the set. it's for the job. one does not it anymore. i'm gonna cut one son of the brother piano because he's in this. get a one, a son, a birth, nothing mister mana. after 20 years enough, dennis done,

america has clearly failed to eliminate any of the problems. those who wanted to make money from a war on afghanistan made buckets and buckets of money, the big weapons dealers, the war contractors, the reconstruction business, the mercenary contracting firms that do all the cooking and cleaning and, and work that the troops don't do anymore. they made pockets in buckets of money and the politicians whose campaigns are funded with what we call the rest of the world, bribery. but in the united states, we call it contributions. they got money into their campaigns and got elected. so if that was a goal, it was a big success. i think that president biden's position that he has no regrets is disingenuous. it's meant for public consumption. certainly the americans didn't know what to do long term. we just threw money at the problem and that never works. you know,

there's an old saying at the ca that you can buy an afghan warlord, but you can certainly rent, and that is not a long term strategy. so here we are 20 years and $3.00 trillion dollars later we have literally nothing to show for it. over 20 years, roughly 750000 troops from several countries served enough canister on more than 3500 western coalition. soldiers were killed, americans suffered the most casualties among all foreign contingents. at the same time, by some estimates, the african national army, i believe, lost more than 65000 troops. the total number of civilian deaths is impossible to estimate. but at numbers in the hundreds of thousands, this bloodbath has brought neither peace to africa. stone, nor succeeded in defeating terrorism. now we're going to have not only the vietnam syndrome, but the afghanistan syndrome and a little bit of the iraq syndrome. but the visuals are so reminiscent of the visual

just people trying to escape from the helicopters from the roofs of the embassy. you know, the united states hopefully is going to learn some lesson. ah, some i was junior that's a long weekend to go. so i was of the but it was the muse months little of when, when you size my to so i mean i can finish that, not just that it is that you would get so then you would just a little ha, actually sure. what you show in this curve goes, i'm not them was, you know, some of you know, we put out initially the bite and administration plans to in the 20 year war by 91120th anniversary of the worst terrorist attack and us history the to which they responded with the longest military campaign, but they failed to make a graceful exit. their withdraw was more like

a hasty retreat. abide and certainly didn't expect them to crumble so quickly. so he was unprepared to things happen just almost overnight. so you're saying 3 months . it ends up taking 3 minutes before the lapse. the main goal is destroying terrorism and i'm going to send was it achieved? yes, and no. ok to essentially no longer exists. good for us, but dash exists isis, which came out of arcadia. there are certainly other terrorist groups that are worse than okay, to look at syria here, the united states is arming and financing the nist of france. that's what i'll kind of how do you explain that to the american people, that this is the same group or at least an off shoot at the group that murdered 3000 americans on one day. and now we're sending them weapons and money

the. ah, is your media a reflection of reality? the world transformed? what will make you feel safe? tyson lation, for community. you going the right way? where are you being that somewhere? which direction? what is truth? what is in the world corrupted. you need to defend the join us in the depths or remain in the

shallows. ah, i have often said transfer fee for the privacy for the kids about privacy. what people care about is power. julian, a son just become a symbol of the battles of barissi. information is power. that's what's going on. a huge struggle with governments and corporations who want to keep information secret and others who democratic rights should be pushed forward. and people have a right to know what to do. watch houses help to shift the conversation around transparency. see what that battle has done to him. i feel like julian's life might be coming to an end. we are in a conflict situation with the largest and most powerful employer in such a situation. it's remarkable piece of ice.

the me, the horrible smell that snow, like i mean, i don't, i can only describe it as metal and flesh. i was angry excuse me, 2 decades own from the worst terror attack modern history. the world commemorates those who suffered and died in 911 and assess the collateral damage inflicted by the american war on terror through torture. drone attacks and death on this 20th anniversary, we told to those who suffered from the event itself to.