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Women free of Taliban
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AMERICA AT WAR
Women free of Taliban, but not rules
Strict Islamic code still governs despite Western world's appeals
By BRIAN MURPHY
Associated Press
Tuesday, December 18, 2001
Herat, Afghanistan -- The prosecutor reads the charges: leaving
your husband and spending the night in another man's home. The
suspect rises from the floor.
"No one touched me, not even my hand," Qamar Gol pleads. "I swear
there was nothing improper."
Not accordin...
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