i was told i could follow a senior taliban cleric - mullah fazil rahim mujahid. with the camera rolling, he listened to a widow lodging a complaint against her stepsons. >> its thought that one of the reasons that the taliban has been able to increase its support in rural parts of afghanistan is that they have implemented the sharia courts sytem - in a place where there was either no law, or the legal system was corrupt. >> from an afghan point of view, particularly from those afghans who are living in the war zone it's actually a very welcome alternative to no law at all. the taliban courts do have a reputation for being much more fair than the government courts. that doesn't mean that the taliban courts are incorruptible. compared to the government courts this is actually a much more effective system. >> but what is also true is that examples of justice by the tailiban's sharia court system have been brutal. adulterers stoned to death, hands are cut off. even recent reports of beheadings have surfaced. what i was invited to see was a more mundane case - inside