[TheForge] Re: Blacksmiths in Afghanistan

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There were reports on NPR the other day about Afghans (Afghanis?  whatever) 
collecting spent shells and shrapnel to sell as scrap metal, in the bazaar.  
Somebody's gotta be buying it...can't be that different from us ;-)

<< There's proof that blacksmiths are aiding the war on terrorism in 
 Afghanistan. This is snipped from an AP article:
 
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 The al-Qaida forces are concentrated in two valleys that cross the border 
 into Pakistan to the south. The Afghan forces are moving in from the north, 
 and Pakistani troops are guarding their border. That puts the al-Qaida 
 between "a hammer and an anvil," as the war's commander, Army Gen. Tommy 
 Franks, put it.
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 Looks like we've moved from the stone age ("between a rock and a hard 
place") 
 to the iron age.
 
 -- 
 -Marc Godbout
 http://rain.prohosting.com/ironring >>