A BBC reporter who travelled with Taliban militia reports that they “secretly loathe their leaders and bin Laden.” ‘He’s mad, you know…’: “I spent two months in Afghanistan. I left with an overwhelming sense of humanity surviving in hardship beyond our imagination. The Taliban, although feared and loathed in equal measure, are in some ways a natural outcome of the chaos that existed in Afghanistan. But just as they have preyed on the plight of the Afghans to impose order they, too, have become easy prey for Bin Laden. He has used their homeland as a launching pad and now, like so many times before, Afghanistan is once again to become a battleground for other people’s war.” The Sunday Times of London