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...wildly-painted buses with men clinging to their sides and roofs. The caravan was stopped at the first police checkpoint. We jumped out and moved through the halted vehicles, attracting a crowd as we walked. A fellow dragged me over to see a white bearded man crumpled into a pick-up truck. He'd been wounded in the air strike on Kandahar. A much larger crowd gathered. Some were curious, a few hostile. Suddenly our guard grabbed us away from the crowd of refugees. "Go back to the car - fast!" he ordered. Later he explained. "They wanted to take...
...Signs of Afghanistan's latest war are evident all around Jalalabad: Tightened security, checkpoints on roads, pick-up trucks loaded with Taliban fighters and their ammunition, electricity blackouts and a strictly-enforced night-time curfew are some of the more obvious ones. The official Radio Shariat, its airtime already crowded with Taliban propaganda, has started broadcasting patriotic battle poetry. As if the scars of 23 years of fighting, triggered by the communist revolution in April 1978 and fuelled by the Soviet invasion of December 1979, weren't enough, the Afghans are now entering another indefinite round of suffering...
...because it was dipped in bright green envy. “Look at her lunging out there.” And yes, said anonymous female was writhing against her equally anonymous man-friend. But so were the hoardes of women at waiting impatiently at Johnston Gate. Always a popular pick-up point, Johnston Gate was filled a mass of people standing against the cast-iron gate, lined up like convicts getting mug shots. A male in a tight t-shirt with extremely large muscles held a girl cave-man style over his shoulder. When she dismounted and boarded the shuttle...
...Pick-up line:] I’ve lost my puppy, can you help me find him? I think he went into this cheap motel room...
...operation, noting a possible fifty percent decrease in individual car usage if all targeted drivers—those who don’t jump behind the wheel every day— were to participate. Zipcar.com also considers public transportation a partner in their environmentally conscious crusade and places many pick-up/drop-off points near T stations...