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...Most of the bearded men in artfully folded turbans came from the same moderate, nationalist, royalist ranks. It is unlikely that many chieftains from inside Afghanistan braved Taliban wrath to come. Nowhere sat a member of the Northern Alliance. Nor did a single so-called moderate Taliban attend. From Kabul, Taliban spokesmen jeered that the gathering was a bunch of self-seekers out to pocket American dollars. Even Zahir Shah, who stood to benefit most, inexplicably failed to send a personal representative. And the maneuvering in Peshawar ignores a harsh reality. When you ask four Afghan refugees who should rule...
Strada's staff knows what to expect. Although it includes a handful of foreign medics, most of the more than 200 support staff are themselves previous patients, victims of the country's chronic warfare. The nonpartisan Emergency had been operating a hospital in Kabul as well, but shut it down in May after a raid by the Taliban religious police, in which both foreign and Afghan staff members were beaten up. The reason: men and women were not properly segregated in the dining hall...
Emergency is the outgrowth of one man's crusade against the kind of misery he first confronted while serving in Kabul with the Red Cross in 1991. Looking for a typical patient profile in the clinic admissions log, he discovered that it was not a young male combatant wounded in Afghanistan's civil war. Instead, typical meant civilian and female. Three years later--relying mostly on private donors in Italy, including the pro soccer team Inter Milan--Strada had rounded up enough financial support to launch Emergency. Since then, the group has treated nearly 200,000 women and children...
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...MORE STORIES Kabul: Eking out an Existence Baghran: Into Taliban Country Taliban: Why the bad guys get away More Stories >>> PHOTO ESSAYS Burden of Sanctuary Afghanistan's Women A Country Divided More Photos >>> CNN.com Asia Latest news on the War on Terror