Posted on 07/12/2011 2:01:29 PM PDT by Zhang Fei
Until last week, Solaiman Faizi's biggest problems were making sure that guests at his newly opened hotel didn't burn the place down with their small propane stoves or overload the tenuous power supply.
But after an unpleasant encounter with post-Taliban vengeance and justice, Faizi isn't so sure that he should have left New Jersey to help reopen his family's hotel in one of the world's most treacherous cities.
One of his brothers is stewing in Kabul's central jail, recovering from a beating by soldiers. Another brother just got out of the hospital, where he says he was treated for a concussion and bruises to his face and kidney inflicted by the same government forces. And their elderly father is worried that there's worse to come.
This, unfortunately, is what happens when a couple of Jersey car dealers go mano a mano with a cabal of well-connected Afghan shopkeepers.
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They must have forgotten the rules of a tribal society, having lived in a normal country.
Tribes are a Pashtun (i.e. the one thing that Karzai and the Taliban have in common) thing - these guys were hard-drinking, hard-living Tajiks.
Yes, I figured they were from the wrong tribe. Sad for these people trying to remake something of their country.
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