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...Khoshal Khan A is a collection of jaggedly rising fragments of dismembered homes and disrupted lives, a dusty reflection of the twisted steel remains of the World Trade Center. In response to a day of destruction, New York marshalled billions of dollars to rebuild. Kabul has been torn apart for 23 years, and no such resources are at its disposal. The nascent government is struggling to establish a sense of order. The U.N., international donors and NGOs can't cover the nation's staggering needs, and their resources have been stretched by the largest ever return of refugees?1.6 million...
...Khalil Rahman Nasimi, standing in the ruins that were once his home. "It was the house of a colonel"?his former rank in the Northern Alliance?"the house of an important man." Around him are mere remains: the suggestion of walls, the barest hint of an orderly life. Khoshal Khan A, a street in western Kabul, was once prestigious real estate. Now it is rubble. The street was destroyed during the Afghan civil wars that raged from 1992 to 1996. Khalil and his family fled after the first rocket hit and a succession of marauders looted everything in their home...
...happening through a combination of faith, hope and desperation. At the beginning of Khoshal Khan A, Abdil Jalil, 55, pulls water from a well, dumps it on a pile of dirt, and molds mud to make a poor man's unfired bricks. His auto repair shop was looted during the civil war and then expropriated by the Taliban. Now he's selling 1,000 bricks for less than $8, working with a team of friends?but still unable at times to meet the demand...
...Gardez, the man officially in charge of the province of Paktia?Raz Mohammad Delili?is a poised Afghan with a law degree and a formal appointment by the government of President Hamid Karzai. But a few kilometers outside the provincial capital, there's another center of power: Pacha Khan Zadran, arguably Afghanistan's most erratic warlord, whose 3,000-strong army patrols the jagged, mountainous routes from Gardez to the tribal areas of Pakistan. They're hunting for al-Qaeda members on the run and report on their luck to Charlie and his American colleagues on a daily basis...
...Zadran's checkpoints. Mohammad says he has just given an intelligence briefing to the Americans. Pointing up to the peaks to the south, he warns, "There are more al-Qaeda here in this area. After Shah-i-Kot, they went to the tops of the mountains." Pacha Khan Zadran is vain, grasping and irksome?but his help may be worth the aggravation...