As US Draws Curtain on Combat Role, Taliban Plans Patient Comeback
07.22.2014 at 01:28am
As US Draws Curtain on Combat Role, Taliban Plans Patient Comeback by Heath Druzin, Stars and Stripes
Surrounded by scaffolding, a blue-domed mosque is nearing completion on a site where a cinema once stood.
The Afghan government is funding the project, which the Taliban began after razing the movie theater and closing all the others in town as part of their campaign against anything deemed immoral. Before the Taliban could finish the mosque, the U.S. swept them from power in 2001, beginning a war that few thought would still be raging nearly 13 years later.
Like the mosque, the Taliban are back…
