*** From December 30, 2001 – Size: 40K – no pictures – 3 pages – in French
After over 3 months of evacuation in Pakistan, desperately trying to keep busy and avoid turning crazy watching Afghanistan being bombed on CNN and the BBC, eventually eventually I am able to get back in -just to celebrate our new year under the stars of Kabul! But things have changed: this time it’s in a UN plane, and an opportunity to meet some strange new species of expatriates: politicians, journalists, soldiers from the Northern Alliance…
Back to Kabul
Tadjik mudjahiddin from late Commander Masood’s Northern Alliance at Bagram military airport end of December 2001, all too happy to pose for a picture with a woman (wearing no veil for the first -and only- time!)
*** From December 27, 2001 – Size: 44K – no pictures – 3 pages – in French
Many expats are still stuck in Peshawar, Pakistan, frustrated and powerless, waiting to be able to go back inside Afghanistan, following the journalists and politicians who keep indecently rushing in. A strange Christmas indeed, we keep busy as we can, we hear a lot, collect info and attend meetings. Some democratic initiatives and a re-building process start to unfold here, while we learn about mines: everybody gets ready to go back and build a new country…
Strange christmas 2001
*** From December 2001 – Size: 48K – no pictures – 2 pages – in French
At the end of a tense ramadan in Pakistan, still in exile in Islamanbad & Peshawar while Afghanistan was still being bombed accross the border, journalists and politicians rush inland to be first… as the aid workers still remain behind.
PeshRamdan