Khalil, seemingly panicked, ordered everyone to run. (He later told me that he had seen movement below and feared that the Taliban were about to surround us.) We headed for another hill, from which I was finally able to see the convoy, about a half mile away, across a wadi.

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Moments later I was chased by a security man and ordered to delete the offending image from my camera -- he even stood over me while I did as I was told at my laptop like a chastened schoolboy.

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