Word: mazar
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...When she’s not reading crumbling 19th century labor newspapers in the sub-basement of Littauer for her thesis, she’s writing about contemporary inequalities at Harvard and beyond. In her column, “Harvard On My Mind” she attacks injustices from Mazar-e-Sharif to Mass Hall. Her column will run on alternate Fridays...
...What little we do know of him is vague and open to myriad interpretations. We first learned of his existence back in November, when he was discovered fighting alongside the Taliban at Mazar-i-Sharif. The first images were of a shockingly thin young man, filthy and disoriented. A few days later, he was immortalized on that videotape - pumped full of morphine, in pain, but well pleased with his choice to join the Taliban and above all, remarkably composed...
...Walker was captured by U.S. forces in November, after allegedly taking part in a prison uprising in Mazar-i-sharif. He has since been held on a military ship in the Arabian...
...sixteen other leaders - all in kameez, vests and brand new army jackets - concurred, talking over each other and contributing to every question. They swore they'd not supported the Taliban, though thousands of soldiers were recruited from here; six hundred from Baghran are prisoners with the Northern Alliance in Mazar-i-Sharif and Kunduz alone. "The Taliban would not ask to take our sons, they would catch them on the road," said Gaffar. As we sat in the sun listening to these men, I doubted a homegrown commander like Rais needed to kidnap his troops...
...Afghanistan. In early December, three special operations troops were accidentally killed during a U.S. airstrike over Kandahar. Two soldiers died in a helicopter crash in Pakistan, one perished in another accident, another was swept overboard en route to the region and a CIA operative died in the Mazar-e-sharif prison uprising...