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...children in Afghanistan? Ellis: I'd been doing solidarity work with women in Afghanistan for a couple of years back in Canada and I was in Pakistan interviewing women for an adult non- fiction book called 'Women of the Afghan War'. I met a woman whose daughter was in Kabul doing what the girl in the novel does, masquerading as a boy to earn a living for her family, and I thought that would make a really interesting children's novel...
...camps for some time? Ellis: The woman had just come out of Afghanistan for a few days to attend an international women's rally. She'd been smuggled out by one of the women's organizations that operate secretly inside the country and she had to go back into Kabul the day after I met with...
...daughter once she was no longer able to masquerade as a boy and had to be kept inside like the other women in Afghanistan. She thought that it would be terribly difficult for the child to get used to after being able to run through the streets in Kabul freely...
AFGHANISTAN Rush to Create Post-Taliban Government Opposition groups, diplomats and aid agencies scrambled to fill the political vacuum left in Kabul and other key Afghan cities abandoned by Taliban fighters under the twin onslaught of U.S. bombing and Northern Alliance advances. But there were ominous signs that warlords were reclaiming their traditional fiefdoms, threatening the country with fragmentation. Air strikes against al-Qaeda targets continued past the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan as Taliban leaders remained defiant, and U.S. ground troops clashed for the first time with Taliban soldiers in the south. As British forces secured...
...Afghan Aid Workers Eight aid workers arrested by the Taliban in August on charges of promoting Christianity were freed last week after the city of Ghazni fell to Northern Alliance troops. Taliban forces took the two Americans, two Australians and four Germans with them in the retreat from Kabul. Abandoned in Ghazni, the workers were picked up by Northern Alliance supporters, who allowed U.S. troops to move in with helicopters and whisk them to Pakistan. Georg Taubmann, one of the German aid workers, said their release was "like a miracle." THE NETHERLANDS More Evidence Prosecutors at the U.N. war crimes...