Tuesday, February 21, 2012

The Man Responsible For Retrieving The Taliban War Dead

An Afghan woman walks through Kabul cemetery. REUTERS/Arko Datta

The Man Who Retrieves The Taliban's Dead -- Washington Post

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Abdul Hakim gets the first calls just after the bombs explode and the firefights end, when all that is left are the remains of the dead.

The voices on the other end belong to Taliban commanders whom Hakim has come to know well. The first sentence is almost always the same: “We’re looking for a body.”

In the southern province that has borne more violence and death than any other since the war began, the Taliban knows Hakim as the man who can retrieve insurgents’ bodies from American and Afghan authorities and return them to their families and comrades.

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