Senator Levin on a New U.S.-Afghanistan Partnership
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MOHAMMAD AGHA, Afghanistan Greg Mortenson is hurtling down the dusty back roads of eastern Afghanistan, hoping the Taliban wont attack his Toyota 4Runner. There are no police checkpoints, no American troops and no sign of any foreign development projects including his own.
A few years ago, when the author of Three Cups of Tea was one of the worlds most beloved activists, there would have been a host of American officials waiting for him. But now, with his reputation in a shambles, he has slipped back into Afghanistan quietly.
When he arrives at an unmarked blue gate in a mud wall, his driver stops. Inside, Mortenson says, lies the other side of the story hundreds of Afghan girls getting an education, thanks to him.
Except no one is answering the door. The place looks abandoned.
Maybe everyone is at a wedding, he says with a forced laugh. He squirms in his seat.
Mortenson won fame as a humanitarian who built hundreds of schools in Afghanistan. Four-star U.S. generals sought his advice on Afghan tribal dynamics. President Obama donated $100,000 of his Nobel Prize winnings to Mortensons charity. Former president Bill Clinton praised him. Four million people bought his book.
Many of his former advocates now see him as a fraud.
A 2012 investigation into his charity, the Central Asia Institute, found that he spent millions in donations on his expenses, including travel and clothing. His book turned out to contain large-scale fabrications. Some of the schools he boasted of had no students. Some appeared not to have been built at all.
Now, Mortenson is trying to start over, to emerge from years of pain and disgrace. His donations have crashed. His co-author committed suicide by kneeling in front of a train. His daughter tried to take her life. He almost died of heart failure.
Mortenson, 56, is wearing Afghan clothing a flowing tunic and flat wool cap. He sits in the truck on this sunny morning, staring at the blue gate, which remains closed. He is tapping his foot. The minutes pass slowly.
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KABUL, Oct 13 (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber rammed a NATO military convoy along a major road out of Afghanistan's capital, Kabul, early on Monday, killing one Afghan civilian, authorities said.
Hours later, another suicide bomber killed a woman outside a clinic in a province east of Kabul and a third bomb exploded in a market on the capital's northern outskirts, wounding 22 people including three children, officials said.
The violence came as the Taliban and their militant allies step up attacks ahead of the withdrawal of most foreign troops at the end of the year.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the car bomb attack on the Jalalabad Road, a main thoroughfare with a U.S. military base and a housing compound for U.N. and other international contractors and aid workers.
At least three foreigners were wounded in the blast targeting their armored vehicles, but their identities were not known, police said.
A spokesman for the U.S.-led NATO mission in Afghanistan said a patrol was attacked but there were no fatalities among the international force. The force does not confirm injuries.
The bomber in a Toyota Corolla car drove into the convoy just before 7 a.m. (0230 GMT), said Farid Afzali, head of Kabul's police investigation department.
"As a result of the blast, one of our countrymen was killed and three foreigners slightly wounded," Afzali said.
Reuters television footage showed the remains of one of the white armored vehicles, its engine blackened and mangled and side door damaged.
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KABUL Tue Oct 14, 2014 9:38am EDT
An Afghan worker rests after unloading sacks of wheat which will be distributed to Afghan widows for their monthly rations from the World Food Program (WFP) in Kabul October 26, 2010.
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KABUL (Reuters) - Funding shortfalls have forced the World Food Program to cut rations for up to 1 million people in Afghanistan, a WFP official said, an early sign that aid money may dwindle as the international combat mission winds down.
The U.N. food assistance agency, which runs on donations from member countries, faces a gap of about $30 million for its program in Afghanistan, country director Claude Jibidar told Reuters in an interview.
"We have had to cut down the rations of the people we are assisting, just so that we can buy some time, so we dont stop altogether," Jibidar said.
He said the cuts, to 1,500 calories a day from 2,100, would affect up to 1 million people, many of whom have had to flee their homes because of the escalating war between the Taliban insurgency and the Western-backed Afghan government.
For those displaced by the war, the prospect that food aid could stop is grim.
"If the food rations get stopped, we will die of hunger," said Bibi Fatima, an elderly woman who lives with eight family members in a mud hut on Kabul's eastern outskirts.
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