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Paul Finster Fleming has wandered the world for the past seven years. His British passport boasts stamps from 45 countries. He has lived in chilly Brussels and sunny Rio de Janeiro. He met his wife in India. Their growing brood--now numbering five--accompanied them to Washington for a year. Yet in all that time, the engineer, 43, hasn't had a permanent...
With a few colleagues, I spent my Thanksgiving meal squatting on the floor of an Afghan passport office, talking to Taliban fighters about miracles and Judgement...
...gone down, and now the starving Taliban can eat. A man named Amanullah beckons us into his office, a mud-walled room with a table, an iron passport stamper, floor mats, a lopsided bed and three murals he has painted of mountains and a Muslim saint's tomb. He starts eating from a rusty can and offers it around. I offer my bag of raisins. "Look," he says with a grin, "all we ever eat around here are raisins. Do you have anything else...
...looked at this visa and thought: by the time I get across the border, the Taliban's domain probably won't be any bigger than this yellow stamp inside my passport. So the race was on to get across the border. Trouble was, I wasn't alone. There was a stampede of 200 other hacks, with their fixers, drivers translators and in some cases, cooks. The charge was led by the TV networks...
...Laden grew angrier later that year when the government invited U.S. troops to the kingdom to defend against the menace of Iraq's Saddam Hussein. When bin Laden grew confrontational, the Saudis withdrew his passport. Nevertheless, he made his way to Sudan, where he began to organize for global Islamic revolution...