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...related amputees (1 out of 273 people). Three years of drought on top of 22 years of war have produced widespread famine. Fighting and hunger have uprooted huge numbers of civilians. More than 3 million Afghans already huddle in bordering states, and the U.N. fears 1.5 million more will flee the country in the current fighting. When the war ends, the country and its economy will have to start from scratch...
...country before Sept. 11. Aid workers now say perhaps double that number risk starvation when winter comes. So far there has been no huge surge of dispossessed into Pakistan, but the U.N. High Commission for Refugees is making contingency plans for up to 1.5 million Afghans it says might flee the country after an expected U.S. military strike begins...
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...
...millions more have been turned away, and are hemmed in at the border in makeshift, unsanitary camps. Even before Afghanistan became the focus of the U.S. war on terrorism, the country had been in the grip of a crushing famine that had caused hundreds of thousands of Afghans to flee their homes...
...shadowy world of espionage and psychological warfare. The immediate aim was to pinpoint the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden, Washington's prime suspect in the Sept. 11 attacks. His presumed protectors, Afghanistan's Taliban rulers, played for time by issuing a clerical edict urging the al-Qaeda leader to flee. But their refusal to hand him over, despite last-minute representations by Pakistan, made stronger international action all but inevitable...