Newsweek, December 10th, 2001
Byline: Colin Soloway
Abdul Hamid is tall, thin and barefoot in a filthy black tunic. A prisoner of the Northern Alliance, he sits with his elbows bound with a strip of cloth behind his back, his right leg and left foot bandaged for gunshot wounds. Hamid's face is mostly covered in dirt and black soot, but it is quickly apparent that he is not just another beaten and frightened Taliban warrior. Hamid, 20, is a white, apparently middle-class American, a convert to Islam.
Hamid is one of only 86 survivors of a vicious, four-day battle in the northern Afghan fortress of Qala Jangi. He refused...
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