Afghans Don’t Let a White-Knuckle Highway Slow Them Down

New York Times by Dexter Filkins | Feb. 8, 2010 (Special Report)

Even in a nation beset by war and suicide bombings, you would be hard-pressed to find anything as reliably terrifying as the national highway through the Kabul Gorge. Full Story »

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