Word: afghanization
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...have anything else to grow.' MUHAMMAD AYUD, Afghan sharecropper, on growing cannabis after a government campaign wiped out his opium poppies...
...needed Pakistan's assistance to dismantle Osama bin Laden's terror state in Afghanistan. But relations remain frayed between the two nations because of Pakistan's memory of Washington's hot-and-cold attentions. "There's a complete lack of trust going back to after the first Afghan war [against the Soviet Union] - when we left them high and dry with 500,000 refugees," Zinni says. "And then we came rushing toward them after 9/11...
...also resolute. "These blasts will be continued while those people who grew up in Australia or America are here," a Taliban veteran told Time. "For us as Muslims, the first priority is Islam and second is our land. Both are in danger from the infidels and their puppet Afghan government." The outcome of the struggle may depend as much on willpower as it does on killing power...
Just how much was underscored late last month, with news of concerns for the safety of an Afghan child actor in the upcoming movie of the best-selling novel The Kite Runner. The family of Ahmad Khan Mahmidzada, whose character is raped, fear the film will expose them to reprisals. In Afghan tribal society, sexual violation - even its portrayal in a fictional movie - can lead to dishonor, ostracism, or worse. Mahmidzada's father told the BBC that members of his tribe "may cut my throat, they may kill me, they may torture me." The filmmakers, he says, didn't mention...
...course, the two worlds can meet. Afghan Shah Muhammad Rais claimed that his portrayal as a domestic tyrant in the global best seller The Bookseller of Kabul by Norwegian journalist Asne Seierstad exposed him to dishonor. So he did a very Western thing, suing Seierstad for defamation in Norway. Then he went one better: Rais now has a deal with a Norwegian publisher for a book of his own. A spot on Oprah has to be next...