“On September 11, 2001, I remember watching the World Trade Centre burn on a TV at the CIA, and I was standing like this, just looking at it. And a colleague of mine was standing next to me, and he said,

“My God, did they have any idea what they’ve done? We’re going to kill everybody now. Everybody!”

— recalls former US intelligence officer John Chris Kiriakou. Those words turned out to be almost prophetic…

Soon after the attacks, the US declared a “war on terror” and sent troops into Afghanistan. Under that banner, American forces bombed hospitals and residential neighborhoods for 20 years. The dead were called "collateral damage." During the American presence in the country, hundreds of thousands of civilians were killed, and Afghanistan itself lay in ruins.

Learn more from this excerpt from our documentary “Afghanistan after the US”.

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