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Man on a Mission to Tell the World of its Terrible Mistake
Thursday, October 25, 2001
By Pamela Constable / The Washington Post

"Our city and our country were ruined by foreign countries, and now it can happen again. The only hope is for all of us to get together, overcome our differences and work for peace."

PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- The Washington Post
The Afghan was perched on a tea sack in his nephew's market stall, fingering his prayer beads and muttering. Every few minutes tears welled in his eyes.

He had reached the Pakistani city of Peshawar after traveling two days from Kabul and sneaking across the border. A sheaf of letters was in his pocket, bearing identical, handwritten messages from his panic-stricken neighborhood. He would not return home, he vowed, until they had been delivered.

The letters were addressed, in the Afghan Pashto language, to George Bush, Pervez Musharraf, Vladimir Putin, Kofi Annan and the leaders of China, Iran, France, Britain, India and Saudi Arabia.

"The world must know what is happening in Afghanistan," Mohammed Sardar said, his voice ragged with anxiety and anger. "The terrorists and the leaders are still free, but the people are dying, and there is no-one to listen to us. I must get to President Bush and the others and tell them they are making a terrible mistake."
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It's really too bad his mess spilled over into the big kids' field,
Dan