Taliban in Afghanistan. In 1990, activist and grandmother Barbara Bick, age sixty-five, traveled with a women's delegation to Afghanistan for what she thought would be her last great adventure. Instead, while the Mujahideen shelled Kabul, Bick forged friendships with her Afghan hosts. In the ensuing years, she watched as the Taliban took over Afghanistan and instituted its fiercely anti-woman policies. In 2001, Bick returned to Afghanistan to the region dominated by the Northern Alliance, the anti-Taliban militia. She was at a compound on September 9 when Ahmad Shah Massoud was assassinated by Taliban infiltrators. Bick returned to Afghanistan in 2004 to see how women were faring under the new government.
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