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Talking to his daughter, Vicki, motivated him, he said...
...buildings in Kabul and Kandahar in which they were believed to be hiding. At least one strike nailed its target: on Friday, Rumsfeld said he had seen "authoritative reports" that the U.S. had killed Atef, al-Qaeda's military chief. Atef had intimate ties to bin Laden through his daughter's marriage to bin Laden's son and was seen as the cold-blooded strategist charged with carrying out bin Laden's deadly visions. As the mastermind of the ambush of the Army Rangers in Somalia in 1993, the embassy bombings in Africa in 1998 and the Sept. 11 airline...
...novel, billed as the only children's book out on the subject in English, is expected to have almost 150,000 copies in print by year's end. The novel has the grit of a survivor's tale, which it is in part. Ellis based the story on the daughter of an Afghan woman she met while working in a Pakistani refugee camp...
...life of children in Afghanistan? Ellis: I'd been doing solidarity work with women in Afghanistan for a couple of years back in Canada and I was in Pakistan interviewing women for an adult non- fiction book called 'Women of the Afghan War'. I met a woman whose daughter was in Kabul doing what the girl in the novel does, masquerading as a boy to earn a living for her family, and I thought that would make a really interesting children's novel...
...that woman or anyone else you met from the camps? Ellis: No, I wasn't able to maintain contact with most of the women. They spoke to me only on the condition of anonymity. I know the mother was very worried about what was going to happen to the daughter once she was no longer able to masquerade as a boy and had to be kept inside like the other women in Afghanistan. She thought that it would be terribly difficult for the child to get used to after being able to run through the streets in Kabul freely...