Modern times come to Kandahar

In the jumble of Kandahar city's bazaar kiosks and open-front stalls, it is now just as easy to find pornographic videos as Osama bin Laden's call-to-jihad tapes. Supply-and-demand does that. Rooftops of mud-brick buildings are barnacled with satellite dishes,

(Snip) First thing the Taliban did when they came to power in Kandahar was toss TV sets out the window or lynch them, symbolically, from mulberry trees.

[even homicidal lunatics can get some things right...]

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