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Working in a war zone can be draining, with places to alleviate the tension hard to find. In Kabul, NGO staff, journalists, and foreign development workers have long sought out L'Atmosphère Restaurant and Bar, latmospherekabul.blogs.com, for its convivial charms, excellent wine list (for Afghanistan) and comforting French meals - think dishes like beef fillet, smoked salmon and dill sauce or tuna steak and ratatouille followed by plates of cheese and fresh peaches in zabaglione...
...unsettled and sometimes dangerous country it is a refuge where, after a few visits, everybody knows your name - especially Mark Victor and Thomas Cressaty, the journalists turned restaurateurs who opened L'Atmo (as the regulars call it) in 2004. On Thursday nights - the start of the Kabul weekend - the poolside bar bursts with an eclectic gathering of security analysts, foreign correspondents, diplomats, aid workers and miscellaneous adventure seekers chattering in multiple languages. If Star Wars were to be remade in Afghanistan, the bar scene where Han Solo encounters - and kills - a bounty hunter would take place at L'Atmo...
...Arabic and Farsi and has a real affinity for the cultures of the region. He was in the Beirut embassy when it was bombed by Hizballah in 1983, and he dug through the rubble for his lost colleagues. His proudest moment was raising the flag in post-Taliban Kabul, reopening the U.S. embassy. He was a co-author of a secret 2002 State Department assessment called "The Perfect Storm" that argued against a U.S. invasion of Iraq. He won't talk about that now except to say, "It accurately reflected my views at the time." His current views...
EASTERN EGG ROCK, MAINE Decoys help lure puffins back to island KABUL Afghanistan's opium harvest...
Twenty-three South Korean missionaries were taken hostage on July 19 when the Taliban intercepted their bus on a road some 90 miles south of the capital, Kabul. The road is known to be extremely dangerous and few foreigners risk driving it. Two male hostages were later killed and two female hostages have already been released...