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Rose Siding

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Thu Oct-07-04 11:19 PM
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Afghan Election Observers -Photo

Local girls look at a U.N workers unloading ballot kits from a U.N. helicopter in Ghumaipayan Mahnow village some 410 kilometers (256 miles) northeast of Kabul, Afghanistan (news - web sites), Monday, Oct. 4, 2004. By air is the only way to deliver the electoral material in the inaccessible areas of the Badakhshan province. A helicopter distributed on Monday 84 ballot boxes and electoral kits in 24 remote villages near Tajikistan's border to hold its first direct presidential vote on Oct. 9. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/041004/481/fai10610041718

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SoCalDem

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Thu Oct-07-04 11:32 PM
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1. What a sad picture..

Edited on Thu Oct-07-04 11:36 PM by SoCalDem

Those little girls could "fit in" anywhere , and yet their bad luck put them in Afghanistan, where they will "marry" at 12, and have 7 or 8 children before they die of overwork and inattention , at an early age.:cry:

A contrast...

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