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...bombed anything and everything," even though "the last thing [Afghanistan] needs is more bombs. Bombing is redundant..." Reasoning that the odds of being hit are slim, people learn to disassociate the sound of bombs from death. Instead they worry about the gangs of heavily-armed thugs who rob and murder with no recourse. Rall's interpreter explains that having someone killed would cost $100 if you bargained well. "Would anybody care?" Rall asks. "Why would they?" is the hard-boiled reply. Even through his limited experience as an visitor, Rall's story opens a window on the Afghani's life...
...such an impoverished country? When a Northern Alliance leader tells the journalists at the front, "If you stay after dark some of my troops will rob you. And maybe worse," it becomes a "commuter war," complete with parking attendants. Even under constant threat of bombs, robbery and murder, the international press felt most oppressed by the boredom of a front without any "action...
...blaming the lurking but at that point unidentifiable Finch for the second crime. He also plants exculpatory evidence to support this tale. Meantime, the creepy Finch tries to lure him into a deal: Finch won't talk about what he saw if Will joins him in pinning the original murder on an innocent...
Zafran Bibi's case is especially complex. Her husband Naimat Khan, who until last year was in jail on a murder charge, claims that his own father forced Zafran Bibi to make the rape accusation against a man with whom the father was feuding. Later she changed her story and accused her brother-in-law, who was never charged. Khan says his wife actually became pregnant after a conjugal visit to him in jail. "It will be justice if my wife is handed back to me," says Khan...
...championships and 81 PGA Tour victories, Snead was considered one of the sport's greatest players. He had won every major golf title except for the U.S. Open, of which he was runner-up four times. CHARGED. SAM BITH, 69, former Khmer Rouge general, with the 1994 kidnapping and murder of three backpackers-Australian David Wilson, Briton Mark Slater and Frenchman Jean-Michel Braquet; in Phnom Penh...