Stardate 20011013.0607 (On Screen): In any war there are unsung heroes, and sometimes they aren't obvious. I have a nomination for one: the Pakistani lawyer who is in Kabul now to defend the western missionaries. Kabul is not a nice place to be right now anyway, and in fact it is distinctly dangerous. The place may be overrun by the Northern Alliance at any moment, and in street fighting there are a lot of unintended casualties of civilians. He also has the thankless job of trying to represent his clients in front of "hanging judges". He presented his first arguments today in the trial, and he wrote them in Arabic. The trial was dismissed and he was ordered to rewrite them in a local language. That's ironic: his legal argments were presented in the same language and script as the Quran, and the learned theocratic judges couldn't read or understand them?
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