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  • A massive base just north of Kabul, it had grown into the size of a small city.†   (source)
  • No amount of political correctness can make us empathize with a child left orphaned in Darfur or a woman taken to a football stadium in Kabul and shot to death because she is improperly dressed.†   (source)
  • A year in a medical hospital in Kabul.†   (source)
  • There were beheadings and burnings in Syria, a string of simultaneous suicide bombings in Baghdad, a Taliban raid in Kabul, a new round of fighting in Yemen, several stabbings in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, and a gun-and-grenade attack on Western tourists at a beach hotel in Tunisia.†   (source)
  • And the train's headed for Kabul.†   (source)
  • Ford, ford, ford o' Kabul river, Ford o' Kabul river in the dark!†   (source)
  • ISAF, an international peacekeeping force, has been sent to Kabul.†   (source)
  • Kharabat, Kabul's ancient music ghetto, was silenced.†   (source)
  • I know what I said earlier, but Kabul isn't that bad.†   (source)
  • 6 on the Richter Scale and was felt as far away as Kabul and Delhi.†   (source)
  • They were yelling that Massoud and Rabbani had withdrawn from Kabul.†   (source)
  • I had Nabi go to a bakery halfway across Kabul for these.†   (source)
  • Kabul's day of reckoning had come at last.†   (source)
  • She knows that in his will he left the Kabul house to his niece, Pafi, who was raised in France.†   (source)
  • But by Kabul standards, it's a lavish property, with high walls, metal gates, and a wide driveway.†   (source)
  • At the Kabul River, vendors moved into the parched riverbed.†   (source)
  • He had picked them up from Shadbagh and driven them to Kabul, up and down the streets of the city.†   (source)
  • Anyway, I was supposed to be back in Kabul the Wednesday before last.†   (source)
  • He was prime minister in Kabul when you were born.†   (source)
  • He moves on, and listens in on a conversation about an Irish pub that is set to open in Kabul.†   (source)
  • Laila tells him that she has been in Pakistan for the last year, that she is returning to Kabul.†   (source)
  • Pari kept a few pictures of him in her room from her childhood in the Kabul house.†   (source)
  • But, like Mil's letter, Kabul's penance has arrived too late.†   (source)
  • Uncle Nabi was a cook and a chauffeur in Kabul.†   (source)
  • She noticed a drowsy hush overtaking Kabul Traffic became languid, scant, even quiet.†   (source)
  • NW: My mother taught me in Kabul when I was little.†   (source)
  • And Kabul is a beautiful and exciting city.†   (source)
  • NW: He was part of the Pashtun aristocracy in Kabul.†   (source)
  • She always withheld details of her life and of their life together in Kabul.†   (source)
  • Since my return from Kabul, I have managed to sell what little remained of my land.†   (source)
  • He was going to transform Kabul with his designs.†   (source)
  • Nabi had taken them to Kabul once, the year before.†   (source)
  • The following day, Kabul was overrun by trucks.†   (source)
  • I'm going to Kabul, and you can't stop me.†   (source)
  • On the ride home from SFO, Idris recalls with fondness the manic chaos of Kabul's traffic.†   (source)
  • There are rumors that the socialists in Kabul helped him take power.†   (source)
  • We need Kabul to be green again, people say.†   (source)
  • Kabul came from stories Uncle Nabi had told him.†   (source)
  • Rasheed is here, in Herat; he has come all the way from Kabul.†   (source)
  • At that point, I could have stayed in Kabul.†   (source)
  • Remember, cousin, what happens in Kabul ….†   (source)
  • A year ago, she would have gladly given an arm to get out of Kabul.†   (source)
  • The Kabul River, without its yearly spring floods, had turned bone-dry.†   (source)
  • It's an AP story about the nonprofit I work with in Kabul.†   (source)
  • I understand that Rasheed agha has tickets for the bus to Kabul that leaves shortly.†   (source)
  • He said he would take a longer route so they could see a little of Kabul.†   (source)
  • She and her mother and daughter had no one left in Kabul.†   (source)
  • So when are you going to show me around Kabul again, brother?†   (source)
  • Babi tried again to convince Mammy to leave Kabul.†   (source)
  • He didn't tell stories anymore, had not told one since he and Abdullah had returned from Kabul.†   (source)
  • Do you know how many people the Mujahideen killed in Kabul alone these last four years?†   (source)
  • Well, my father does have an uncle in Kabul.†   (source)
  • Have you ever lived outside of your precious little shell in Kabul, my gul?†   (source)
  • His specialty is helping Afghans who have lived in exile reclaim their lost properties in Kabul.†   (source)
  • But it isn't mere homesickness or nostalgia that has Laila thinking of Kabul so much these days.†   (source)
  • My mind flashes to the letter Nabi had given me in Kabul, his posthumous confession.†   (source)
  • NW: What I can tell you, however, is that no one was touting me in Kabul.†   (source)
  • Kabul was eerily silent, quilted in white, tendrils of smoke snaking up here and there.†   (source)
  • And when the rockets began to rain down on Kabul, people ran for cover.†   (source)
  • Idris tells him that he and Timur have just returned from Kabul.†   (source)
  • In Kabul, I had followed news about the rounds of austerity measures.†   (source)
  • Kabul is, and back there so much is happening, a lot of it good.†   (source)
  • How many times have I used it myself at hospitals here in Kabul?†   (source)
  • Tariq explained to her the treacherous, shifting boundaries within Kabul.†   (source)
  • She spent hours sometimes talking to her family down in Kabul.†   (source)
  • Then Kabul's dogs, who had developed a taste for human meat, would feast.†   (source)
  • "We moved to Shadbagh because someone tried to kill us in Kabul," he said.†   (source)
  • Mostly, they live in the richer parts of Kabul.†   (source)
  • On the way back to Kabul, Nila slumped in the backseat with her head resting on the glass.†   (source)
  • It was a hot, dry summer night, typical of the month of Saratan in Kabul.†   (source)
  • He receives two more e-mails from Amra, more updates on the conditions in Kabul.†   (source)
  • She was raised in Herat, I was born here in Kabul.†   (source)
  • This was sometime in the late 1950s, long before television had made its way to Kabul.†   (source)
  • As you know, I came to Kabul a month ago to speak with you.†   (source)
  • But now since their arrival in Kabul, Idris has heard him introduce himself only as Timur.†   (source)
  • I told him I had sold the stores in Kabul and that I was going back to finish up the paperwork.†   (source)
  • In them, she's always back at the house in Kabul, walking the hall, climbing the stairs.†   (source)
  • They remind him only of the brutal disparity between his life and what he'd found in Kabul.†   (source)
  • Baba jan had personally commissioned a sculptor from Kabul to build the statue.†   (source)
  • Two stores here in Kabul, in Taimani and Shar-e-Nau, though I just sold those.†   (source)
  • You miss Kabul, I know, and your friends.†   (source)
  • "I'll visit you," he muttered "I'll come to Kabul and see you.†   (source)
  • I should say that their years in Kabul were, ironically enough, a time of personal reprieve for me.†   (source)
  • The wars in Afghanistan have ravaged the roads connecting Kabul, Herat, and Kandahar.†   (source)
  • The nikka will be tomorrow morning, and then there is a bus leaving for Kabul at noon.†   (source)
  • I told him we were going to Kabul for a few days.†   (source)
  • First is that you have me buried in the Ashucian-Arefan cemetery, here in Kabul.†   (source)
  • Two days later, there was a large demonstration in Kabul.†   (source)
  • That summer, Titanic fever gripped Kabul.†   (source)
  • Pari Wandati stayed a week with me at the house in Kabul.†   (source)
  • Before he found work in Kabul, Nabi had helped Parwana care for their sister.†   (source)
  • Kabul was in the hands of the people now, he said proudly.†   (source)
  • All day, this poem about Kabul has been bouncing around in my head.†   (source)
  • "We took a bus to Kabul and went to the courthouse yesterday," he said flatly.†   (source)
  • More than once I have called her from Kabul, desperate for help with my frozen IBM.†   (source)
  • From either side of the Kabul River, they released rounds of artillery at each other.†   (source)
  • By "out there," he didn't mean Kabul, which had always been relatively liberal and progressive.†   (source)
  • It was Timur's father, Idris's uncle, who had sent them to Kabul.†   (source)
  • But also like many things in Kabul, there is evidence of slow, hesitant rebirth.†   (source)
  • All over Kabul, electric fans sat idle, almost mockingly so.†   (source)
  • When they found neither, when their goats and sheep and cows died off, they came to Kabul.†   (source)
  • In Kabul, Najibullah changed tactics and tried to portray himself as a devout Muslim.†   (source)
  • With Hash and Abdullah, the Americans toured Kabul's overburdened educational system.†   (source)
  • The Saigon chapter is closed, as is Kabul.†   (source)
  • Many of the women students at Kabul University are graduates of her programs.†   (source)
  • The 737 dove for the Kabul airport in a tight spiral.†   (source)
  • " Ellaha's father, a carpenter named Said Jamil, was indignant when we tracked him down in Kabul.†   (source)
  • The boys all wore identical haunted looks, the kind he'd seen in Kabul.†   (source)
  • Abdullah, like most of Kabul's residents, held a variety of jobs to feed his family.†   (source)
  • As they drove north through the unelectrified city, Kabul seemed deceptively peaceful.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER 21 RUMSFELD'S SHOES Today in Kabul, clean-shaven men rubbed their faces.†   (source)
  • But the Taliban's top leadership in Kabul and Kandahar weren't as worldly.†   (source)
  • "A government supported by America was supposedly in control of Kabul," Mortenson says.†   (source)
  • Abdullah Rahman, like most of Kabul, had been disfigured by war.†   (source)
  • After a week in Kabul, Mortenson was offered a seat on a Red Cross charter flight to Peshawar.†   (source)
  • Like most everything else in Kabul, the city's schools had been badly damaged in the fighting.†   (source)
  • The two-hundred-mile trip to Kabul took eleven hours.†   (source)
  • Nonetheless, he proved a skillful navigator of Kabul's chaotic traffic.†   (source)
  • The Intercontinental was the closest thing Kabul had to fully functional lodgings.†   (source)
  • We wait, then take the jeep back to Kabul.†   (source)
  • ""And what has an American come so far from Kabul to talk about?"†   (source)
  • He felt an ember of the anger he'd carried all the way from Kabul flare.†   (source)
  • Mortenson found Kabul's traffic more frightening.†   (source)
  • Kabul is an island, really. Some say it's progressive, and that may be true. It's true enough, I suppose, but it's also out of touch with the rest of this country.†   (source)
  • One hour after that nighttime bombardment began, the Northern Alliance opened fire with a battery of rockets from an air base twenty-five miles north of Kabul.†   (source)
  • And one year later, their armies took the Afghan capital of Kabul, overthrowing the regime of President Burhanuddin Rab-bani and his defense minister, Ahmed Shah Massoud.†   (source)
  • Once he visited Afghanistan for a poetry festival at the Kabul Intercontinental Hotel, where he read a poem about peace.†   (source)
  • And until the United States decides to wield a very large stick up here in support of the elected government of the people, in Kabul, I'm not looking for any serious change real soon.†   (source)
  • Our ancestors came to Swat in the sixteenth century from Kabul, where they had helped a Timurid emperor win back his throne after his own tribe removed him.†   (source)
  • In that central-city disaster, they killed the security chief of Kabul, who was attending the funeral of an anti-Taliban cleric who had been killed three days earlier by a couple of guys on a motorbike.†   (source)
  • The seven-hour journey from Bahrain seemed endless, and we were still an hour or more south of Kabul, crawling north high above the treacherous border that leads directly to the old Khyber Pass and then to the colossal peaks and canyons of the northern Hindu Kush.†   (source)
  • And even though Chief Healy, me, and the guys were nine miles above this vast, underpopulated, and secretive land, it still gave me the creeps, and I was pleased when the aircrew finally told us we were in Afghanistan airspace, running north for another four hundred miles, up toward Kabul.†   (source)
  • That was when the Taliban blasted sky-high the two monumental sixth-century statues of the Bamiyan Buddhas, one of them 180 feel: high, the other 120 feet, carved out of a mountain in central Afghanistan, 143 miles northwest of Kabul.†   (source)
  • The United States really did a number on the Taliban, flattened their stronghold in Kunduz in the north, shelled them out of the Shomali Plains north of Kabul, carpet bombed them anywhere they could be located around the Bagram air base, where, four years later, we were headed in the C-130.†   (source)
  • At the same time, long after dark in Afghanistan, twenty-five carrier-based aircraft and fifteen land-based bombers took off and destroyed Taliban air defenses, communications infrastructure, and the airports at Kabul, Jalalabad, Kandahar, and Herat.†   (source)
  • The property's worth is skyrocketing now that thousands of foreign-aid workers have descended on Kabul and need a place to live.†   (source)
  • There was the time she had sewn Pari a silver-and-green dress from a roll of fabric Father had brought from Kabul.†   (source)
  • They celebrated her birthday last week, took her to Cinema Park, where, at last, Titanic was openly screened for the people of Kabul.†   (source)
  • After Nabi died, I thought briefly of having the car hauled to one of Kabul's junkyards, but I didn't have the heart.†   (source)
  • If I've learned anything in Kabul, it is that human behavior is messy and unpredictable and unconcerned with convenient symmetries.†   (source)
  • Jalil was busy telling her that Kabul was so beautiful, the Moghul emperor Babur had asked that he be buried there.†   (source)
  • It has been raining "angrily" in Kabul, she writes, and the streets are packed with mud up to the ankles.†   (source)
  • That was the day that she, Tariq, and Hasina had watched Soviet tanks and jeeps leave Kabul, the day Tariq had worn that ridiculous Russian fur hat.†   (source)
  • We'll come back to Kabul, inshallah.†   (source)
  • Your father's come back from Kabul.†   (source)
  • Saying it aloud, he feels weighed down by his promise in a way he had not in Kabul, standing in the hallway with Amra, when she'd kissed his cheek.†   (source)
  • Anis, one of Kabul's newspapers, had run a story the month before on the renovation of the orphanage.†   (source)
  • For the first time in years, Laila hears music at Kabul's street corners, rubab and tabla, dootar, harmonium and tamboura, old Ahmad Zahir songs.†   (source)
  • She tells me she has a cold, one she is sure she picked up from Mama, then she asks after me, asks how work is going in Kabul.†   (source)
  • The rain has caused flooding, and some two hundred families had to be evacuated by helicopter in Shomali, north of Kabul.†   (source)
  • With snow came the kites, once the rulers of Kabul's winter skies, now timid trespassers in territory claimed by streaking rockets and fighter jets.†   (source)
  • They'd barely made it out of Kabul.†   (source)
  • You were a surgeon, part of a medical group that had come to Kabul to operate on children who had suffered injuries to their face.†   (source)
  • Over the summer, Pari had flown to Kabul, met with Markos Varvaris, who had arranged for her to visit Shadbagh.†   (source)
  • In Kabul, particularly in western Kabul, fires raged, and black palls of smoke mushroomed over snow-clad buildings.†   (source)
  • When they first came back to Kabul, it distressed Laila that she didn't know where the Taliban had buried Mariam.†   (source)
  • He smiles at the memory of all the daredevil adolescent cabbies with whom he and Timur entrusted their lives in Kabul.†   (source)
  • Kabul's vivid, arresting details—the bodybuilding gym amid the rubble, for instance, a painting of Schwarzenegger on the window.†   (source)
  • He's a Pashtun, from Kandahar originally, but he lives in Kabul, in the Deh-Mazang district, in a two-story house that he owns.†   (source)
  • It was a narrow, crowded bazaar in a neighborhood that Rasheed said was one of Kabul's wealthier ones.†   (source)
  • The hardest-working woman in Kabul.†   (source)
  • I had found in Kabul, and on occasion visited, establishments where a young man's needs could be addressed with both discretion and convenience.†   (source)
  • But I won't rest until the Mujahideen hold a victory parade right here in Kabul" And, with that, she lay down again and pulled up the blanket.†   (source)
  • Kabul Radio, the ministries of Communication and the Interior, and the Foreign Ministry building had also been captured.†   (source)
  • Parwana knows that she does it only partially for his benefit and more for the fact that he is her tie to Kabul.†   (source)
  • Roshi lived with her parents, two sisters, and her baby brother in a village a third of the way between Kabul and Bagram.†   (source)
  • Mariam thought of her six-hundred-and-fifty-kilometer bus trip with Rasheed, from Herat in the west, near the border with Iran, to Kabul in the east.†   (source)
  • Almost two-thirds of the students at Kabul University were women now, Babi said, women who were studying law, medicine, engineering.†   (source)
  • Everyone came out to see him because he drove a car, though it belonged to his employer, and because he wore a suit and worked in the big city, Kabul.†   (source)
  • But she also remembered feeling this way even as a child, living with both her parents at the big house in Kabul.†   (source)
  • Everyone in Kabul is doing the same.†   (source)
  • For months, they'd settled in the southern outskirts of Kabul, firing on the city, exchanging rockets with Ahmad Shah Massoud.†   (source)
  • "You want cold, come to Kabul," I say.†   (source)
  • She has been in Kabul for a year now, her third stint, this time with a small NGO, working at the hospital and running a mobile clinic on Mondays.†   (source)
  • The Kabul River is flowing once again.†   (source)
  • The singing resumed "Sometimes, I swear, sometimes I want to put that thing in a box and let her float down Kabul River.†   (source)
  • Security has been tightening because of Kabul's support of Bush's war in Iraq and expected reprisals from al-Qaeda.†   (source)
  • There is a part of Laila now that wants to return to Kabul, for Mammy and Babi, for them to see it through her eyes.†   (source)
  • After all the fuss about the car died down, I would sit for tea with my sister and Saboor and I would tell them about my life in Kabul.†   (source)
  • Rabbani, Tajik leader of the Jamiat-e-Islami faction, who had taught Islam at Kabul University in the days of the monarchy.†   (source)
  • By the time Baba jan had moved him and his mother from Kabul to Shadbagh, the village had all but vanished.†   (source)
  • They listened in on the radio as some ten thousand people poured into the streets and marched up and down Kabul's government district.†   (source)
  • Father said it wouldn't surprise him if it had witnessed the emperor Babur marching his army to capture Kabul.†   (source)
  • I want to see the day the Soviets go home disgraced, the day the Mujahideen come to Kabul in victory.†   (source)
  • Adel didn't quite know why he ended up telling Gholam about the reason he and his parents moved here from Kabul.†   (source)
  • Like many of the aid workers he has met in Kabul, Idris finds them slightly intimidating, world savvy, impossible to impress.†   (source)
  • For Mammy, even in the end, even after everything went so terribly wrong and Kabul lay in ruins, Massoud was still the Lion of Panjshir.†   (source)
  • Mariam sat watching the girl out of the corner of her eye as Rasheed's demands and judgments rained down on them like the rockets on Kabul.†   (source)
  • EB: But she met your father in Kabul.†   (source)
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