Article: Lifting The Veil On Afghanistan ; Lititz Novelist Visits, Returns With Tale Of Faith And Freedom

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 ...

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