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...life to the canisters. They won't last indefinitely," says Dave Maples, a security consultant with Investigative Group International in Atlanta. But one employee-benefits-management company outside Atlanta may have the right idea: since the attacks, it has purchased house painters' masks for all employees to filter out dust and soot. "That's practical," says Maples...
...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-to-toe burka veil, padlocked her house and headed into...
...ground so hard that it has begun to bleed. "Allah, I surrender!" he wails, "If you don't let me pass, I'll earn no money. I'd rather die than go back empty-handed to my starving children." The display of self-mortification works; the Pakistanis gently dust off the bleeding old man and let him through, which provokes a wave of fierce clamoring and shoving among the other Afghans crowding the border. They are all just as hungry, just as frantic...
...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...
...same latitude as Phoenix, Ariz., though Kabul's elevation makes it colder, clearer and more exhausting to visit. At night this time of year, temperatures can fall into the 30s. During the day, the clear skies make a perfect canvas on which to watch for the telltale wisps of dust that follow moving soldiers or helicopters or armor. Just as the badlands of the American West were ideal places for the outlaws who haunted the imagination of 19th century America, so the rugged country of Afghanistan is perfect, as if made for the outlaw who haunts the start...