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Article: Lifting The Veil On Afghanistan ; Lititz Novelist Visits, Returns With Tale Of Faith And Freedom
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- Sunday News Lancaster, PA
- Article date:
- June 14, 2009
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After 9/11, Jeanette Windle fervently hoped American assaults on
the Taliban would lead to peace and freedom in long-suffering
Afghanistan.
Yet, as the Lititz author notes on her Web site, neither ever
materialized.
"Instead today's headlines reflect the rising violence,
corruption, lawlessness and despair. The signing of Afghanistan's
new constitution, establishing an Islamic republic under sharia law -
and paid for with Western coalition dollars and the blood of our
soldiers - tolled a death knell for any hope of real democracy," she
says.
Windle, with connections to a wide-ranging Christian aid and
missionary network, traveled to Afghanistan to research her latest
action novel, "Veiled ...