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...Afghanistan is famously resistant to outside interference. Ask the Russians. "When the Soviets came, they wanted to change the country overnight, abandoning tribal codes that existed for centuries," says Nelofer Pazira, an exiled Afghan journalist and dedicated foe of the Taliban who stars in the film Kandahar (see box). "People were appalled. They went completely in the opposite direction. Even more liberal families became very conservative...
...Afghan-reared Canadian journalist named Nelofer Pazira attempted to slip across the Iranian border into her native land. She was trying to reach the city of Kandahar before an old school friend, depressed by the rigors of Taliban repression, made good on a suicide threat...
...know what set them off? Actually I think it was probably the British journalist. It's merely the sight of a Western face. They're here to fight a jihad; they see a Western face; they assume that's who they've come...
...This happened when they talked to the British journalist? Yeah. That's right...
...What could have gone wrong? Well, as much as I hate to say it, letting journalists in among Taliban. He [The British ITN journalist] was surrounded by Taliban. When I've been talking to them, I've been keeping at least three or four meters distance and the Northern Alliance with me have been extremely nervous about letting me get close. They say that the Taliban are likely to try and kill...