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...have so far kept Kandahari pomegranates out of the U.S. Stoddard predicts that next year's harvest will be as big as 68,000 tons, with exports rising to as much as 3,000 tons. "The demand we're seeing has been incredible," he told me by phone from Kabul. "And this is a licit agricultural product ? something that there's a lot of pride...
However, Gates left no doubt where he stands on how to proceed, saying that the revised NIE shows that non-military measures are the best way to curb Iran's nuclear program. "If anything," he said in Kabul, "the new national estimate validates the Administration's strategy of bringing diplomatic and economic pressures to bear on the Iranian government to change its policies...
Muneera Habib Mansoor was at a garden party in Kabul in 1997 when she stepped on a land mine. Her first leg was blown off, the second had to be amputated. Najmuddin Helal drove over a land mine in 1982 and lost both legs. Gulandam Karami, a widow with three children, stepped on one last year as she was taking her goats to pasture. She lost both legs at the hip, and is only just now learning to walk on prosthetics. She is progressing well, but worries that her new legs - shod in bright red Adidas - will not be able...
...resources to meet those needs. Opened in 1988 at the height of the war against the Soviet Union, the organization's Afghanistan orthopedic programs have treated more than 76,000. But they don't stop at giving people prosthetic limbs. The ICRC's Ali Abad Ortho Center in Kabul provides jobs, employing only the disabled. "We discriminate 100% here," says Alberto Cairo, an effusive Italian who heads the orthopedic program. "If you want a job here, cut off your leg." He pauses to pet the center's resident collie, which limps because it was hit by a car. "Actually...
...with no intention of ever becoming a terrorist harbor. She also refutes the commonly-held belief that Omar was close with bin Laden from the Taliban’s inception in 1994, calling it revisionist history and contending that the two men did not meet until the fall of Kabul to the Taliban in 1996. The Taliban that met with US forces in 2001 was a far cry from the Taliban that rose in the mid-1990s, having been manipulated by outside Arab and Pakistani forces including bin Laden, who was able to climb his way into the upper echelons...