Word: kabul
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...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...
...expand an international coalition received a boost with promises of support from Japan, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Russia and Central Asian republics. But the perceived threat to Islamic groups angered Iran and triggered unrest in Indonesia and Pakistan, as well as among Taliban supporters in Kabul, who stormed and defaced the abandoned U.S embassy compound...
...spent much time in the American Southwest, particularly the mesa-speckled border between New Mexico and Arizona, land which sits at roughly the same latitude as Afghanistan, you will have a sense of the terrain where the U.S. is now furiously searching for Osama bin Laden. The hills around Kabul, an area where bin Laden may be hiding, sit at nearly the 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...
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