Word: bazaar
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Sitting cross-legged over a breakfast of flat bread and kebab in the upper room of a tea shop, Ghulam Rabbani watches his troops in the bazaar below. Amid a throng of locals in the northeastern Afghan town of Baharak, scores of his Northern Alliance soldiers are making last-minute buys before boarding large Russian-built flatbed trucks for the three-day journey through the heart of the Hindu Kush mountains to the plains north of Kabul. "We've served in the north for the past four months," says Rabbani. "But we're being moved south for duty...
...Taliban didn't show us all their military installations that were hit in the air raids. They were also reluctant to take us to the bazaar in Jalalabad to talk to common people. The reason they offered was that the people were very angry following the U.S. attack and it would be difficult for the Taliban to ensure the security of reporters, especially those from Western countries...
...managed to visit the bazaar after getting special permission from the Taliban Governor. The shopkeepers complained of a slump in business while the customers said they couldn't afford the price hike. Most shops were open and food and fuel weren't in short supply. But the people said the daytime bombing had badly affected life in the city. Still, both shopkeepers and customers rushed out onto the street to watch the U.S. aircraft carry out their routine, morning bombing. Nobody was running for shelter. Instead, they were pointing at the skies looking for the jets flying at high altitude...
...extra shirts, a pair of trousers and my swim suit - hardly useful attire for covering a war in a desert when the nights are turning cold and sharp. There's ice on the pomegranate trees. So I went out and bought one of these heavy woolen shawls in the bazaar. Good camoflague, too. I thought I'd blend right in. But instead of looking noble and chic the way these Afghan warriors do, I just feel like I'm shambling around in my bed covers...
...Last Saturday, a new product finally hit the bazaar: a bright-yellow pack of Humanitarian Daily Rations. Dropped by U.S. planes as free aid to the starving and displaced, they are now selling here or just over $1. Except to Americans. For them, the HDRs could be free. When a pair of Western journalists walked through the market, a kind- eyed, 70-year-old man ambled up. The yellow bag in his hands was emblazoned with the words: Gift from the United States of America. But the man could not read English, and he looked puzzled. Was the HDR ours...