Word: peshawar
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...Peshawar, a predominately Muslim town of about 2 million people, has been my home for almost three years. Saturday night, after yet another 18-hour workday, I couldn't sleep because of all the sound of gunfire in the neighborhood. I finally drifted off, but only after thinking over and over again about the consequences and the serious implications of the war on this region - continued bombing raids, hungry people, maimed children, angry mobs, civilian casualties, increasing displaced populations and refugees, anger at Americans and now some reported cases of anthrax...
...even with humanitarian assistance work. I am finding myself trying to hold on to parts of my life I had before. Sunday night, within a span of twenty minutes, I was on the phone to many people: my wife in Ethiopia (we have not been together since I left Peshawar for meetings in the U.S. on September 6th); my boss in New York City (a much-needed ear for my need to vent); my mother on a Wisconsin farm (as the past Tanzanian President Nyeri said, "you are always a child as long as your mother is alive...
...Tension is high in Peshawar as bombing raids inside Afghanistan continue. Anti-American sentiment permeates the streets and alleys. My barber whispered to me that he would prefer to come by my office to cut my hair during these next few months, or at least until things calm down a bit more. He did not want me to risk walking down the alley to his barbershop. I agreed, and expressed my concern for him and his family...
...rugged Afghan steppes and summits better than Haq, a legendary mujahedin guerrilla who lost his right foot to a land mine while helping rout the Soviets. He left Afghanistan during the post-Soviet power struggle and renounced politics after his wife and son were murdered in his Peshawar, Pakistan, home. But he recently returned to the Afghan frontier, hoping to enlist defectors and warlords in an anti-Taliban southern alliance. Because he was Pashtun--the dominant tribe of southern Afghanistan and the Taliban itself--Haq was a precious asset to the U.S., which desperately wants an erosion of Taliban authority...
...inevitable outgrowth” of Third World poverty, globalization, U.S. neo-colonialism, and a host of other bogeymen beloved of the know-nothing Left. True, it finds footsoldiers among the poor and dispossessed of Pakistan and Palestine. But the angry young men who crowd the streets of Peshawar and line up to train as mujahadeen are pawns, not leaders, and their marching orders do not bubble up, unbidden, from the “general will” of the wretched of the earth...