traveled through muslim communities to track three cases but in all three, muslim men were arrested on terro charges and a terrorist crime russia committed. in all three places, they relied heavily on hours of surveillance reported by a paid government informant. today, a special investigation. all of that and more coming up. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. the afghan government and the taliban have reportedly begun secret, high-level talks over ending the afghan war. according to the washington post, taliban representatives have receny met with officials from the government of afghan president karzai. there are differing accounts of talks, the sources sayaliban negotiators are for the first time speaking on behalf of the pakistan based taliban group qetta shura and its leader. another pakistani based faction is said to be excluded from the talks. the karzai government says it has begun closing down the operations of priv