After the fall of the Taliban, some experts warned of a nightmare scenario in which the Taliban and Al Qaeda would escape from Afghanistan into neighboring Pakistan and set up new command centers far out of America's reach. That nightmare scenario has now come true. The Taliban controls large parts of the lawless tribal areas along the border. FRONTLINE correspondent Martin Smith returns to the Afghanistan-Pakistan border and presents a rare look inside this secret sanctuary in "Return of the Taliban." In a region long suspected of harboring Osama bin Laden and strictly off-limits to U.S. troops, Smith explores the complex web of alliances among the Taliban, Al Qaeda fighters and the Pakistani military, and analyzes the consequences for U.S. policy.

Video (60 min) available in windows media and quicktime formats. Originally broadcast as a segment of the television program Frontline on October 3, 2006; remote version viewed on October 4, 2006.

1. The forbidden zone -- 2. The tribal area of Wazifistan -- 3. The Taliban's web of alliances -- 4. Making deals with the militants -- 5. The stories of a warlord and a journalist -- 6. Bajaur, another tribal area -- 7. A new U.S. policy on Pakistan.