Profile: Hyder Akbar's audio diary when he went to Afghanistan

From: Morning Edition (NPR) | Date: December 12, 2003| Author: BOB EDWARDS | Copyright information


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12-12-2003

Profile: Hyder Akbar's audio diary when he went to Afghanistan

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Eighteen-year-old Hyder Akbar capped an unusual auto diary last summer. Akbar grew up in the San Francisco Bay area. He listened to U2, shops at Banana Republic, but the Akbar family is from Afghanistan where Hyder's father had been politically active. After the Taliban fell, Hyder's fat...

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