one of the hezb-e-islami fighters he focuses on is named arif. >> narrator: arif is an islamic scholar whose role, when not fighting, is to make sure everyone prays five times a day and learns the quran by heart. >> ( reciting from the quran in arabic ) >> narrator: when they fail, he's quick to let them know. 18-year-old fazl is one of the central group's newest recruits. >> narrator: and this is fedayee. he says he went to study at an islamic madrassa in peshawar, pakistan, for ten years, and only recently joined the group. although young, he's already an admired fighter among the others, who say he's daywana, "crazy." >> narrator: fedayee is nephew to this man, commander mirwais. he's the overall leader of the northern battlefront and claims to have all 4,000 hezb-e-islami fighters under his control. in a former life, mirwais was a millionaire businessman importing cars from europe before becoming hezb-e-islami's top man in the north a few years back. >> narrator: the insurgents train daily. they claim to control over a thousand villages in this area alone, and say that the kabul go