Bitter Lake

00:00:03 Increasingly, we live in a world where nothing makes any sense.

00:07:51 You are very good.

00:15:07 We will take your technology and your money, he said -

00:22:37 could be used to consolidate the Pashtun grip on the whole country.

00:31:27 But he knew that this would also divert their attention

00:36:28 And may his wisdom bring success in all your undertakings.

00:40:10 'the King of Afghanistan seemed delighted to see us.

00:45:33 Does he know where the Taliban are?

00:50:39 that the Afghan students found in badly-translated Russian books

00:55:16 This time they put poison in Amin's can of Pepsi

01:02:10 destructive force at the very heart of this project.

01:07:46 MALE REPORTER: Ask him to speak to the daughter.

01:14:13 You know what I mean?

01:19:11 It had led them to distrust the very basis of everything they believed in.

01:26:39 Everywhere in this amazing exhibition there are models showing

01:31:32 You, up there, what is this noise? Can you see what is happening?

01:36:06 They became the core of a revolution

01:45:19 to the Russians 20 years before

01:49:47 The Americans had assumed they would help to create the new democracy

01:54:37 They had set up a special torture centre in an old Soviet hangar

01:58:52 The real enemy was not the Taliban

02:02:35 The terrible truth was that the British presence

02:06:57 as their simple plan was falling apart in Afghanistan

02:11:45 HE SPEAKS OWN LANGUAGE