Monday, August 18th, 2003
Salaam Aleikum!
It’s Friday morning, 29 August 03, lovely and cool, here in Herat where summer daily temperatures soar above 115. I’m sitting in the garden of the IRC (International Rescue Committee) guest house, a beautiful British colonial type building. Petunias, roses and coxcomb are among the many flowers in bloom. It’s a quiet, peaceful refuge. Read more »
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Sunday, August 10th, 2003
Salaam Aleikum!
Well, here I am in Afghanistan. Kabul is a lively and vibrant place at least during the day. Initially, I was surprised to see that things look really third-world-normal with not many “broken” buildings and only a little construction. But that was because I hadn’t been all over the city. As we drove to the dedication of the newly reconstructed burn hospital, we passed by the part of town that you saw on TV–the desolate pock-marked shells of half-collapsed cement buildings, and adobe ruins that looked 100 years old. Some of the cement buildings are still being utilized as homes or offices and others are being reconstructed. But most of the city either wasn’t destroyed or has been repaired. Read more »
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