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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)
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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)
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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
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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)
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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)
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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
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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)
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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
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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)
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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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