Where Afghan Suicide Bombers Go To Be Buried

Khwaja Naqib Ahmad, 52, right, says he lives in fear that the Taliban will come to reclaim the bodies of their attackers. “Normally no one claims the bodies,” Mr. Ahmad said.Christoph Bangert for The New York Times

A Day’s Toil In The Suicide Bombers’ Graveyard -- New York Times

KABUL, Afghanistan — In a city with no shortage of hard jobs, Khwaja Naqib Ahmad lays claim to one of the toughest of all — burying the unclaimed dead.

Interred in his graveyard are orphans, homeless people and other nameless victims, who are sent off with a prayer and a tablet-shaped headstone. But increasingly the bodies that turn up here belong to another class of the unwanted: suicide bombers.

Mr. Ahmad has been a municipal government courier for the last five years, responsible for shuttling bodies between the morgue and his sloped and barren plot of rocky soil on the eastern edge of Kabul. It has been a period marked by a steady stream of suicide attacks, which were virtually unheard-of in 2001, when the war began.

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My Comment: I can only imagine the nightmares that this Afghan undertaker must experience.