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After Afghan Attack, Some See U.S. RoleTwenty-four hours after seven insurgents stormed a shopping center in downtown Kabul and immobilized the city, the shoemakers who ply their trade in front of the mall were back in business on Tuesday. Notes from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and other areasugg boots of conflict in the post-9/11 era. Go to the Blog » Living Story The War in Afghanistan Recent developments on the war in Afghanistan with background, analysis, timelines and earlier events from NYTimes.com and Google. Nearby, shopkeepers returned to hawk tapes of Madonna alongside recordings of Afghan and Bollywood stars, and a crowd of men joked with a man wearing a large shawl, because that was the same outfit the attackers wore on Monday to hide their guns. Stoic about the assault, convinced that it would happen again and lacking faith in the government’s ability to stop such attacks, those who work near the sites that were attacked were most interested in theugg boots question of why the insurgents had not killed more civilians. “They could have slaughtered everyone in Faroshga,” said Mohammed Essa, 35, a shoemaker, referring to the shopping center that two suicide bombers entered Monday morning and left a shell. But the gun battle ugg boots for cheapthere with Afghan security forces, which lasted for hours, killed only five people — two civilians and three members of the security forces. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attacks. “It does impress us,” Mr. Essa said. “If they wanted to, they could have killed everyone.” There were nods of assent on the raised platform where the shoemakers sit in a row under a tattered awning. “Their goal was something else. They wanted to show the government, ‘We can destroy whatever we want,’ugg boots on sale and look what they did,” said 17-year-old Hamid Shah, gesturing at the blackened building behind him as he hammered a new heel on a customer’s shoe. UGG Ultra boots UGG Ultra Short boots UGG Ultra Tall boots12:12 AM - 1/20/2010 - post comment
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