Transcript: Interview: Scott Simon discusses his recent assignment for NPR in Afghanistan

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February 26, 2002
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Interview: Scott Simon discusses his recent assignment for NPR in Afghanistan

Host: NEAL CONAN Time: 2:00-3:00 PM

NEAL CONAN, host:

This is TALK OF THE NATION. I'm Neal Conan in Washington.

SCOTT SIMON (Host, "Weekend Edition Saturday"): OK? Let her rip. OK. I'm thinking of your bus trip. You can hear my voice? You're OK? OK, three, two, one.

We're standing on a hill just east of the town of Gardez. Bacha Khan' s men hold this hill, and it's filled with men sitting on their haunches lighting cigarettes between shivering fingers, Kalashnikov rifles slung around their sold--two, one. We're on a hill just east of the town of Gardez...

CONAN: ...

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