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On their first day in control of Kabul, Taliban fighters commandeered streets and searched the homes and offices of government officials and media outlets, spreading fear and menace across the Afghan capital.
Armed militants erected checkpoints throughout the city of six million people, imposed a 9 p.m. curfew and took over army and police posts. Fighters, many grinning in victory, rode through the streets in captured U.S. and Afghan military vehicles flying the Talibans white flag.
Turban-clad insurgents searched the phones of passersby for evidence of government contacts or compromising material they might deem un-Islamic. Bridal dress advertisements that showed women with exposed strands of hair were covered in fresh white paint. Stores were shut across the city.
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Rozina, an Afghan-Canadian woman visiting Kabul with her Afghan husband, said Taliban fighters came to their hotel Monday morning while she was in a back garden. Frightened, she ran upstairs to her room. Minutes later, Taliban fighters came inside with the hotel manager, who persuaded her to come out of the bathroom where she had hidden.
Three armed militants rummaged through Rozinas purse and luggage, checked her passport and asked questions about her relationship with her husband, she said. They demanded to see their marriage certificate. Her husband protested, saying that devout Muslims wouldnt invade his wifes privacy. They slapped him across the face and hit him in the back with the weapons, she said.
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regnaD kciN
(26,045 posts)Turbineguy
(37,372 posts)Midnight Writer
(21,816 posts)Are these takeovers of Afghan cities involving fierce fighting? Is there mass executions of "infidels" and "collaborators"? Or is the Taliban just rolling in and folks are accepting it?
I'm not downplaying the tragedy here, but what I feared is much worse than what I am seeing reported, which is Boko Harum type atrocities.
WarGamer
(12,485 posts)Scary.