Uploaded December 2014 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
In this exclusive interview with German financial journalist Lars Schall, Asia Times Online correspondent Pepe Escobar talks about his personal observations and experiences in Afghanistan and Pakistan in the Summer of 2001. Inter alia, they discuss: the pipeline project TAP(I); the death of Afghan nationalist leader Ahmad Shah Massoud shortly before 9/11; Osama bin Laden as a sidelined figure in Kandahar; and 9/11 as an attack on the collective psyche of the West.
Moderation: Lars Schall
In this exclusive interview with German financial journalist Lars Schall, Asia Times Online correspondent Pepe Escobar talks about his personal observations and experiences in Afghanistan and Pakistan in the Summer of 2001. Inter alia, they discuss: the pipeline project TAP(I); the death of Afghan nationalist leader Ahmad Shah Massoud shortly before 9/11; Osama bin Laden as a sidelined figure in Kandahar; and 9/11 as an attack on the collective psyche of the West.
Moderation: Lars Schall
