Afghan rebuilding targeted

Last Modified: 02 May 2008
By: Nick Paton Walsh

From the frontline in Afghanistan, Nick Paton Walsh reports on how Taliban fighters are destroying American efforts at reconstruction.

It's not just building schools and bridges, but a key part of its strategy to defeat Taliban insurgents.

The US military says it wants to double its emergency funds for reconstruction in Afghanistan, to $400m.

But as fast as new buildings and roads are built - Taliban fighters are moving in to destroy them.

Blog: the unseen enemy

Nick Paton Walsh blogs from inside Afghanistan, embedded with US forces. Read the blog

Our foreign affairs correspondent Nick Paton Walsh is embedded with American troops from the 101st Airborne in eastern Afghanistan.

He sent this report from Terezaye - north east of the strategic town of Khowst - and 20 miles from the border with Pakistan where American and Afghan troops are facing a ghostly insurgency that's hard to spot and even harder to tackle.