Afghanistan. 2000: An armed escort leads our team to Abdallah Post. Two days before resistance forces gained control of the post, which had been a front-line Taliban position. At the time, the Taliban had control of 95 percent of the country and the only pocket of resistance was territory under Commander Massoud. He was key in repelling the Russian invasion of the 1980s and continued to hold his territory against the Taliban. The writer Sebastian Junger and I had gone to meet Massoud. We were following his men.