It was 21 years ago this week that 19 al Qaeda terrorists hijacked commercial airplanes

and crashed them into the world trade towers in the Pentagon, killing nearly 3,000 Americans.

That murder is act prompted the US government to invade Afghanistan, where Taliban rulers

were protecting Osama bin Laden and other al Qaeda leaders.

It was the start of the country's longest war, stretching over two decades, only to end

disastrous last August when President Biden pulled out all US troops and the Taliban

retook control of the country.

For most Americans, Afghanistan is a country that evokes vague, unpleasant memories that are

fast being forgotten.

But a new podcast, Kabul Falling, reminds us that for millions of Afghans, the US withdrawal

was only the start of a horrific nightmare, as Taliban fighters went house to house searching

for American collaborators while Taliban leaders methodically stripped the country's women

of all their rights and barring them from attending school.

We'll talk to the host of Kabul Falling, Nellah for Hadayat and Afghan refugee herself,

as well as the podcast executive producer, former Wall Street Journal reporter Bradley

Hope, to discuss what they discovered in the aftermath of the US withdrawal and what it

pertains to the future on this episode of Skull Duggery.

I'm Michael Hizgop, chief investigative correspondent for Yahoo News.

I'm Dan Clydman, editor and chief of Yahoo News.

And I'm Victoria Bacetti, a senior counsel at State United.

So I think, you know, for a lot of us, when we pulled out last August, we all watched

the images at the Kabul airport and Afghans desperately trying to get inside the perimeter

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