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Kandahar had become the most dangerous place on earth. Within hours of hearing on the radio about the suicide hijackers who crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Barasna knew she had to flee. Her town had housed both Taliban supreme leader Mullah Mohammed Omar and suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden; surely it would soon be a target of whatever retribution the Americans were planning. "It's suicide to stay here," a neighbor shouted to her as she hurried inside to pack. "Look, even the Taliban are running." A Land Cruiser roared past, kicking up dust, heading...
...street where Barasna lives in Kandahar, in southern Afghanistan, her Taliban neighbors all drive new Toyota Hi-Lux pickups and Land Cruisers, flashy symbols of their new power. But one night three weeks ago, Barasna heard the slamming of car doors and the crying of sleepy children. She peered out into the lane with its high mud walls and saw that every Taliban commander in the area was fleeing the city with his family. Barasna knew why. It was Sept. 11, and on the radio she and her doctor husband had heard about the suicide hijackers who crashed into...
...matter of hours, Kandahar had become one of the most dangerous places on earth: both the Taliban supreme leader Mullah Mohammed Omar and suspected Saudi terrorist Osama bin Laden have houses there. "What are you waiting for?" a neighbor yelled at Barasna. "It's suicide to stay here." A turbaned Taliban commander in a Land Cruiser roared by, kicking up dust, heading for the moonlit road across the desert to Pakistan. "Look at the Taliban run," the neighbor shouted before running inside to pack his belongings. Later that night, Barasna, an energetic woman in her early 30s, donned her head...
...acting swiftly, Barasna and her family made it across the border to Pakistan. They were among the lucky ones. A few days later, Islamabad sealed off the frontier crossings, to block any new wave of refugees trying to get in before an expected U.S. attack against terrorist targets. At the Chaman frontier post southeast of Kandahar, and at Torkham, about 600 km north in the Khyber Pass, there were scenes of panic. When Afghans started crawling through the barbed-wire fencing, the Pakistani police attacked with whips and clubs, herding frightened families back across the border like dumb cattle. Some...
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