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Four years after 9/11, Osama Bin Laden was still thought to be hiding along the borderof Pakistan and Afghanistan, in the famous “Tribal Zone.” This documentary explores the reasons why fundamentalist Islam continues to maintain its stranglehold on the Pashtun villagers living in the Tribal Zone - the front line of the war on terrorism. It tells of the hopes and fears of the villagers stifled by fundamentalists. It’s the story of people that must continue to scratch out a life, “In the Shadow of Bin Laden.” Shot entirely on location by filmmakers Marlin Darrah & Gregory Ritchie.

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