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17 July 2008 | Time
As the sun sets in Kabul and the wail of the muezzin issuing from loudspeakers mounted on minarets calls the faithful to evening prayer, the fryer at KFC is being fired up for the evening rush. But Kabul Fried Chicken has little in common with the U.S. chain whose initials it copied: The chairs are a little too high for the tables, and the delights depicted in photographs mounted on the walls — big milkshakes, braised ribs, lattes — are conspicuously absent from the menu.
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14 July 2008 | Time
The first movement came before dawn: villagers filed out of their homes and a few hundred armed attackers took up positions in people’s parlors and bedrooms. At about 4:30 a.m. in the town of Want, which is part of Nooristan province in eastern Afghanistan, the attackers, believed to be Taliban, let fly their rounds and rocket-propelled grenades in four directions at the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) Command Outpost, surprising coalition soldiers and their Afghan National Army counterparts stationed there.
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3 July 2008 | Slate
Minutes into Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s speech before the Afghanistan Donor Conference in Paris, he congratulated his country on its “independent media,” which, having “grown exponentially” since the ouster of the Taliban, is a harbinger of Afghanistan’s imminent rise to respectable statehood.
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1 July 2008 | Duke Magazine
Afghans have strange ways of memorializing their wars. They weave rugs with crudely rendered illustrations of tanks and the twin towers and other hieroglyphs depicting invasions and withdrawals; they put Soviet fighter jets high up on stilts like big tin gargoyles to ornament their airports.
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10 December 2007 | Esquire
In Ghazni, the Taliban continue to rule with an iron fist, intimidating the locals and killing the cops.
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