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...guerrilla who visits the camps regularly describes three near Ukhia, south of the town of Cox's Bazar, as able to accommodate a force of 2,500 between them. The biggest, he claims, has 26 interconnected bunkers complete with kitchens, lecture halls, telephones and televisions concealed beneath a three-meter-high false forest floor that stretches between two hills. Weapons available for training there include AK-47s, heavy machine guns, rifles, pistols, rocket-propelled grenades and mortars. Mantraps and mines, which can be triggered by spotters hiding in tree houses, protect approaches to the camp...
...malnutrition over the summer, some among them gunned down two cannabis growers who were hoarding water upstream. An hour's drive to the east of Dalicharbolak, a village headman says his is the only settlement out of 38 nearby that has potable water?in effect, a single half-meter-wide well must provide for 60,000 people. The headman claims that anyone is welcome to use his well, but the guards fingering AK-47s and a mounted heavy machine gun around the borehole suggest otherwise...
...what cannabis is doing to Afghanistan is to be found at the village of Deh Naw, half an hour to the north of Mazar along Afghanistan's main north-south highway. Just out of sight of the hash hills upstream, the desert is swallowing Deh Naw whole. Five-meter-high sand dunes have crashed over the village's mud walls like desiccated tidal waves, burying houses, blocking streets and suffocating the vines and the mulberry, fig and pomegranate trees that once blossomed here. The 600 villagers survive by gathering desert thornbushes?used for lighting fires?and trading them for access...
...bomb was planted on the sidewalk in front of the Sari Club and tore a three-meter-deep crater in the street. Some fifteen vehicles were damaged. Another bar two doors down called Paddy's was also busy at the time and witnesses say there must be bodies inside that club as well. On the scene the thick smoke billows from the smouldering rubble, and rescue workers cover their noses to the smell of burning corpses...
Maasdorp’s athletic pedigree impresses, as cousins Ken and Iam Harnden competed for Zimbabwe in the 2000 Olympics. Ken was also a two-time NCAA champion in the 400-meter hurdles...