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Article: New leader of Afghan democrats can also fix teeth.(World)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- August 8, 2002
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Byline: David Buchbinder Special to The Christian Science Monitor
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN -- Less than a year ago, Zabir Nasiri was busy filling teeth at his dental clinic in Kandahar, the Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan.
A skilled and respected practitioner from a prominent local family, Mr. Nasiri sometimes found himself elbow-deep in the mouths of senior Taliban leaders. One of Osama bin Laden's sons came to him with crowded bicuspids. Mullah Omar, the supreme leader of the Taliban, summoned him to his palace one day to yank out a rotten molar.
"Mullah Omar was sitting in a room, holding his jaw and moaning," Nasiri recalls. "He ...