Word: tented
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Abdul Jabbar wants to die. Squatting beside his wife's unconscious body, his 12 children and grandchildren huddled around him in a tiny, open tent of sticks and stitched sacks, the 65-year-old brushes away tears as he describes his prospects in the coming Afghan winter. Freezing rain and snow will cover the Dehdadi camp on the southern outskirts of Mazar-i-Sharif, home to 15,000 refugees. Temperatures will drop to 5[degrees]F, and the filthy roadside ditch from which the refugees fetch their gray fetid water will freeze...
...Only once did I enter a tent when the women hid their faces. The husband sold plastic jewelry on a street in Kandahar, and he had two wives. The second one was his dead brother's widow. He explained to me that his two children died during a nighttime bombing raid last week on Kandahar. They thought it was safer to sleep outside. Then his wife, who was wrapped in a dark green shawl, said: "My baby died while I was giving him milk. He was killed by a flying piece of metal while he was in my arms taking...
Imagine living with your entire family, wife, brothers, sister, children, their wives and husbands, and children, in a tent the size of a car trunk. Imagine that tent is a waist-high from made of sticks and scraps, sacks, blankets, has no floor and no sides so that the freezing wind and dust storms find it no opposition at all. Imagine no money, no food, no firewood and no water except for a black, stinking roadside ditch that bears all the plastic wrappers, oil, excrement and soap from the city and daily carries off camp neighbors who starvation and exposure...
...days now. The only diversion is watching our Taliban guards tossing stones at the hundreds of Afghans perched on the wall, fascinated by our high-tech equipment and foreign female reporters who aren't hidden in a burqa, an outfit which turns a woman into a pup tent with feet...
Campbell said he had a police officer escort him to a first aid tent following the spraying...