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Militants Cut Both Feet off Actress Starring in Afghan Film Critical of Taliban
From the New York Times:
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Militants Cut Both Feet off Actress Starring in Afghan Film Critical of Taliban
From the New York Times:
A Director’s Many Battles to Make Her Movie
LOS ANGELES — Sonia Nassery Cole knew that shooting a movie on location in Afghanistan could get her killed. The most vivid reminder came a few weeks before filming, she said, when militants located her leading actress and cut off both of her feet.
But Ms. Cole, an Afghan expatriate with a flair for the dramatic and a history of not taking no for an answer, had her mind made up. Unable to find another actress to take the part — the film is overtly critical of the Taliban — Ms. Cole, 45, decided to play the role herself.
“Come hell, come shine, I was going to make this movie,” said Ms. Cole, a novice filmmaker whose primary job is running the Afghanistan World Foundation, a charity focused on refugees and women’s rights.
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- Fingerprint File
The Rolling Stones Fingerprint file, you get me down You keep me running Know my way around. Yes, you do, child Fingerprint file, you bring me down Keep me running You keep me on the ground Know my moves Way ahead...
- Not A Smidgen Of Corruption
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Afghanistan Taliban hang 8-year-old boy From Will at The Other News: Suspected Taliban militants hanged an 8-year-old boy in southern Afghanistan after ordering his father, a local police commander, to surrender.The child was kidnapped by militants...
- Spare Change?
It’s no surprise that Hamas considers the cutoff of foreign money to be “blackmail.” After all, that’s what a teenager always considers the threatened withholding of his allowance to be. “Dad! You can’t do that; it’s not fair!”...