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...alone. Even with the car windows wound up, bemused mujahedin crowded around and, for hours, watched us work at our brightly lit computers. Their faces pressed on the glass, discussions thrived about what we were doing. We were the best entertainment in a long time. That night we all slept in one room, weapons between us and blankets pulled over our heads, in makeshift cocoons, against the below-zero chill...
...could breathe inside,” Karlen said. “We trained for about five hours every day, and people just slept when we had breaks...
...Earlier in the week, Michiko and Yuko had about $200 each saved up from convenience-store jobs. The first nights they slept and showered at $10-an-hour hotels?"just us, no men," says Michiko?but tickets to the band's gigs have eaten up the rest. "Plus, we buy the members gifts," says Michiko. "You know, so they notice us and maybe let us ... you know ... " Yuko giggles. (They've heard of groupies who have partied with the band.) Passing men notice them, and the girls know they can always use them for a free meal...
...When the Taliban fled, 140 men were serving time in the local prison for crimes including theft, murder and adultery. Conditions were harsh: prisoners slept eight to a room on the concrete floors and ate little but bread and water, although they were allowed to roam the yard for five hours a day and occasionally punch volleyballs over a net that still hangs there. There were no beatings, says a former inmate named Abdullah. "For punishment, they'd make us chop wood," he says. Today, documents are scattered across the clerk's floor and somehow Abdullah the thief...
...Tomb." Thousands have died there since 1997. But until then it was untouched by Afghanistan's two decades of war. The city takes its name from the Blue Mosque there, where Ali--Muhammad's son-in-law and the fourth Caliph--is said to be buried. Alexander the Great slept in Mazar. Genghis Khan and Silk Road traders passed through. Only 35 miles from Uzbekistan's border, the city was a valuable supply depot for the Soviets, who left it in Dostum's hands...