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...find a taxi driver for the ride into Quetta, one I could trust to get me through the rioters. I settled on an old man who had possibly the worst cab in the parking lot. But he was a "Haji" - a Muslim who'd made the pilgrimage to Mecca - and he radiated a certain serenity. Besides, I thought the zealots in the mob would be impressed by his venerable white beard. Before he took my bags, he quizzed me: "Who is the Superpower? Allah, or America?" Allah, of course. "Get in," he says. "I'll get you into Quetta safely...
...find a taxi driver for the ride into Quetta, one I could trust to get me through the rioters. I settled on an old man who had possibly the worst cab in the parking lot. But he was a "Haji" - a Muslim who'd made the pilgrimage to Mecca - and he radiated a certain serenity. Besides, I thought the zealots in the mob would be impressed by his venerable white beard. Before he took my bags, he quizzed me: "Who is the Superpower? Allah, or America?" Allah, of course. "Get in," he says. "I'll get you into Quetta safely...
...hired a taxi to take us to Kabul that night, a journey breaking all curfews and punishable by summary execution for the driver. Nobody spoke. As we bribed our way through various checkpoints, festooned with confiscated and unspooled audio and videotape, our fear became oppressive. At 11:30 p.m., a couple of hours from Kabul, our driver informed us that the next few guard posts could not be bought off. With hundreds of traveling Afghans around us, we slept on the floor of a dust-blown restaurant until 3.30 a.m., the hour at which the Taliban allows travel to start...
...Arriving in Kabul at dawn, we thanked our driver for not selling us out, said goodbye, and found a fresh car to take us to the border. After an uneventful drive back up the Khyber Pass, we were dropped off near the border only to be surrounded by Afghan civilians and mugged by one of them. We ran the last kilometer with our packs. I told a Taliban immigration official we had been robbed, and he demanded I show him the culprit. We found the man, and he was promptly and violently beaten in front of me and escorted...
...assault rifle and a grenade. Friedrich Leibacher burst into a regional assembly meeting and opened fire, leaving 14 dead, before turning the gun on himself. Three of the victims were members of Zug's cantonal government. Police believe Leibacher's rampage originated in a row with a Zug bus driver two years ago. Athough nearly 400,000 Swiss men are army reservists who keep weapons at home, gun crime has been rare, with no politician killed in over 100 years. Sept. 27 the National Liberation Army formally ceased to exist. The announcement came as nato declared its arms collecting mission...