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Article: Hope remains fragile in Afghanistan.(WORLD)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- January 11, 2008
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Winter is upon Afghanistan, which moans people are trying to stave off the bitter cold.
But in a cruel and, some would say, characteristic Afghan irony, winter's harshness may bring a few months of calm and reprieve from what has been a difficult, tense year of violence, bombings and renewed international concerns about this tough, war-battered but still profoundly beautiful country.
I recently returned to Afghanistan for my third visit after a five-year absence and six years after my initial trip in the summer of 2001, when a Danish colleague and I reported on what was then the prominent humanitarian story of the ...