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2002-11-25 Afghanistan

Aga Khan fund to redevelop downtown Kabul...

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2002-11-25 06:21 pm|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 You'd would never suspect that they were once feared far and wide as the Assassins. People can change.

Posted by Tripartite 2002-11-25 18:46:37|| 2002-11-25 18:46:37|| Front Page Top

#2 Once they quit smokin' that stuff, they weren't so bad...

Posted by Fred 2002-11-25 20:08:04|| 2002-11-25 20:08:04|| Front Page Top

#3 what would jesus smoke?

Posted by Anonymous 2002-11-25 20:17:04|| 2002-11-25 20:17:04|| Front Page Top

#4 Sure, people can change. The Vikings now think Jimmuh Catah is ballsy and they give him prizes to "kick Bush in the shin".
A while back, if a Viking didn't like somebody, they'd have cut his head off with an iron broadsword.

Posted by JDB 2002-11-25 22:13:12|| 2002-11-25 22:13:12|| Front Page Top

#5 OK, how can it be a Soviet era hotel and be built 50 years ago?

Can I get air miles by staying there?

Isn't the Aga Khan the guy that gets weighed and his people give him stuff depending on his weight?

Posted by Chuck 2002-11-26 07:28:55|| [www.simmins.org] 2002-11-26 07:28:55|| Front Page Top

#6 One of our best hopes in securing our homeland is to take this kind of initiative seriously and support it. Best way to keep them from stupidity is to give them smarts, opportunity and trust. The best way forward is a democracy or the closest they can get to it with a capitalist motive and incentive. A recent Science magazine special section on the antiquities and archaeology of Afghanistan was very revealing. There is potential and there is opportunity - who will take up the entrepreneurial mantle and make it happen.

Posted by Jack 2002-11-26 09:18:10|| 2002-11-26 09:18:10|| Front Page Top

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