The Taliban Are Waiting In The Hills

We don't stay long. The hilltop lookouts radio down that local mosques are calling on villagers to look out for foreigners.
The Afghan police drive away fast in large pick-up trucks, paid for by Western taxpayers.
But although the police are up here, it is not clear that they are in charge.
We pass abandoned US outposts on the road back to nearby Jalalabad, sand spilling from ruptured blast barriers.
In the distance are the wooded peaks of the Tora Bora range, where Osama Bin Laden made his last stand against US bombers in 2001, before vanishing into neighbouring Pakistan. FROM HERE