Rekha Basu, DesMoinesRegister.com, 7 October 2009
On Saturday, former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf made a visit to Clive, flanked by a phalanx of U.S.-government supplied secret servicemen. In a lavish private reception, a senator, congressman and former governor welcomed the former military general, who seized power in a 1999 coup and resigned under pressure last year. He used the occasion to call for massive, open-ended U.S. military warfare on Afghanistan to rout terrorism.
On Tuesday, with no security forces in tow, a young Afghan woman who goes by the pseudonym Zoya slipped into Des Moines to speak at a public library. A member of the underground Revolutionary Association of Women of Afghanistan (RAWA), which has been in the vanguard of resistance to the Taliban, she shields her real name for fear of being targeted.
[Cont. reading ‘The time to leave Afghanistan is now’]
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