Rep. Curt Weldon, a Pennsylvania Republican, left, talks to the former king of Afghanistan Mohammad Zahir Shah, center, and his grandson Mostapha during a meeting with a delegation from the U.S. Congress at the King's residence in Olgiata, in the outskirts of Rome, Sunday, Sept. 30, 2001. The former Afghan king told the delegation, headed by Weldon, that he was by America's side in the fight against terrorism and would back a U.S. -led liberation force to oust the hard-line Taliban. The 86-year-old king has lived in Rome since his 1973 ouster. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)

The former king of Afghanistan Mohammad Zahir Shah, fifth from left, talks to his grandson Mostapha during a meeting with a delegation from the U.S. Congress at the King's residence in Olgiata, in the outskirts of Rome, Sunday, Sept. 30, 2001. The former Afghan king told the delegation, headed by Weldon, that he was by America's side in the fight against terrorism and would back a U.S. -led liberation force to oust the hard-line Taliban. The 86-year-old king has lived in Rome since his 1973 ouster. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)

 

Will they have a home???

 

An Afghan refugee woman stands with her children inside a hut in a camp near the Afghan-Tajik border, some 30 kms (19 miles) north of the Afghan town of Imam Saheeb, September 28, 2001. U.N. aid agencies said on Friday they might have to use airdrops to get food and medicine to desperate Afghans if it proved impossible to reopen land routes before winter set in. Picture taken September 28, 2001. REUTERS/Str

An Afghan refugee boy holds bread in a camp near the Afghan-Tajik border September 28, 2001. The U.S. is preparing the groundwork to bomb military installations in Afghanistan, according to a television news report, which said U.S. planes would also drop leaflets and food for the Afghan people. (Reuters)

Rep. Curt Weldon, a Pennsylvania Republican, second from right, with Mirvais Zahir, son of the former king of Afghanistan, left, an unidentified representative of Afghan forces, center, and Mohammed Younus Qanooni, head of the Northern Alliance delegation, following a meeting between former King of Afghanistan Mohammad Zahir Shah and a delegation from the U.S. Congress at the King's residence in Olgiata, in the outskirts of Rome, Sunday, Sept. 30, 2001. The former Afghan king told the delegation, headed by Rep. Weldon, that he was by America's side in the fight against terrorism and would back a U.S.-led liberation force to oust the hard-line Taliban. The 86-year-old king has lived in Rome since his 1973 ouster. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)

 

Afghan refugees wait for medical attention inside a Pakistan government hospital in Balochistan's province of Quetta, September 29, 2001. The United Nations warned of a potential human catastrophe as tens of thousands Afghans are expected to seek refuge in Pakistan in anticipation of United States' retaliatory strikes after attacks in New York and Washington. REUTERS/Erik de Castro

FILE - Afghan Nematullah Shaharani, professor in Islamic Law at the Badakshan University, greets Afghanistan's ousted King Zahir Shah, 86, right, during a meeting of members of the "Loya Jiirga", the traditional Afghan Great Assembly, in Rome, in this Friday, Jan. 19, 2001 file photo. The King, who has lived in exile in Italy since 1973, and his aides are holding consultative meetings with leaders of the Afghan Northern Alliance to plot next steps in a reinvigorated effort to unify the country againstthe hard-line Taliban rulers. At center, the King's 37-year old grandson Mostapha Zahir. (AP Photo/Claudia Gazzini)

Any Hope of future for him????

An Afghan boy rides on a donkey near Pakistan-Afghanistan border town of Chaman, 130-km (81 miles) northwest of the Baluchistan's provincial capital of Quetta, September 29, 2001. Pakistan said on Saturday that the presence of over two million Afghan refugees in the country was a historical headache but steps were being taken to stop them from destabilizing security. Lieutenant-General Moinuddin Haider, minister for the Interior and Narcotics Control, told a news conference that a major reform of Pakistan's security had been under way long before the Afghan crisis, but it had now been speeded up. REUTERS/Zahid Hussein

Abdul Wali, right, son-in-law of ousted Afghan King Mohammed Zahir Shah shakes hands with an unidentified representative of Afghan forces fighting Afghanistan's Taliban rulers prior to a meeting with Northern Alliance's representative in Rome, Friday, Sept. 28, 2001. The Northern Alliance, which holds at most 10 percent of the Afghan territory, has been figthing to topple the Taliban from power. Man at center is unidentified. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)

 

Will he be fed????

 

A man gives money to a beggar on the streets of Kabul, Afghanistan Friday Sept. 28, 2001. Many Afghans have fled the capital for the fear of possible U.S. strikes, the poor can not afford the fare to leave the city. (AP Photo/Amir Shah)

 

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