TITLE

Rural tinkerer builds the first airplane made in Afghanistan

AUTHOR(S)

Peter, Tom A.

PUB. DATE

April 2012

SOURCE

Christian Science Monitor;4/6/2012, pN.PAG

SOURCE TYPE

Newspaper

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Afghanistan's rural Ghazni Province usually appears on the news radar only to herald a tragedy: Five Polish soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb days before Christmas. A group of armed men accused a widow and her daughter of adultery in November and stoned the pair before shooting them in front of their home.

ACCESSION #

74087212

 

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