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Mangal, whose UZBEKISTAN TAJIKISTAN The ibrahim Khil family spenT The nighT of
right leg was TURKMENISTAN April 28 unable to sleep as bullets cracked and rock-
amputated ets exploded outside their home. Hamisha Gul, the
below the knee, patriarch, feared his extended family of 24 wouldn’t
on May 31, sees Jalalabad survive until morning. But the children weren’t
beyond the Kabul afraid. They were used to the sounds of war here in
hospital walls the tiny village of Saed Tuba, in eastern Afghanistan.
for the first time IRAN AFGHANISTAN PAKISTAN By 6 a.m., the fighting had stopped and some of
since arriving
more than a the children began walking through the dry wheat
month earlier fields to school. One came across a sleek, dull-green
object, about the size of a police baton, picked it up
and turned for home to show the others.
Accounts of what happened next vary from child
to child, but after nearly a dozen children had gath-
ered, the rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) fell to the
ground. Hamisha Gul, 60, heard the explosion over
the noise of his tractor, half a mile away. When he
turned, a cloud of dust billowed outside his home.
After 17 years of war between the Taliban and Af-
ghan forces backed by foreign troops, the violence
keeps up a steady rhythm. Militants targeting the leg-
islative elections held on Oct. 20 and Oct. 21 killed
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