How We Lost the War We Won: Rolling Stone's 2008 Journey Into Taliban-Controlled Afghanistan | Rolling Stone Politics

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-we-lost-the-war-we-won-rolling-stones-2008-journey-into-taliban-controlled-afghanistan-20110131

a story from 2008, when one [arab] journalist ventured into Taliban-controlled area of Afghanistan and wrote a piece about his hosts and overall situation in Afghanistan.