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...house by house and set it afire. In all 1,256 houses burned, as well as churches, a junior high school, a hospital and most of the area's businesses. Estimates of the dead, both black and white, varied from 36 to 300. Black residents were marched at gunpoint out of Greenwood. Six thousand were penned up at a convention hall, a baseball field and a local fairground, where some lived in tents for a year...
...Shirmohammad Stanekzai, because, according to an aide, he "must not hear their voices" ...Residents of Kabul were generally too cautious to express concern about the Taliban out loud, but they certainly had reason to wonder: at the first Taliban-attended Friday prayer meeting, soldiers forced passersby into mosques at gunpoint. At the Malali High School, Siad Bibi knew that her life had turned a terrible corner. She was a cleaner until the Taliban decreed that she could not leave her house, which is right next door, without her husband, who is old and ill. "Now I have no work...
...Qaeda's terrorist camps?and many more are now at the mercy of both their rebel conquerors and Taliban turncoats. Pakistani volunteers who made it to the border claimed their former comrades beat and fleeced them. Mahsud Khan, 25, told TIME that Taliban troops robbed him at gunpoint as they fled the Alliance advance. "A few minutes earlier, we were in the same trench," he said. "We went there to help them, and they looted...
...Qaeda's terrorist camps-- and many more are now at the mercy of both their rebel conquerors and Taliban turncoats. Pakistani volunteers who made it to the border claimed their former comrades beat and fleeced them. Mahsud Khan, 25, told Time that Taliban troops robbed him at gunpoint as they fled the Alliance advance. "A few minutes earlier, we were in the same trench," he said. "We went there to help them, and they looted...
...couldn’t say the word “rape.” The album was Amos’s Little Earthquakes, and the song was “Me and a Gun,” an a capella recollection of Amos’ rape at gunpoint. When I was in seventh grade, my sister and I counted the days until our first Tori Amos concert—which we attended with our mother, no less—and were introduced to a fervent fan base, whom Amos had dubbed “Ears With Feet...