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Afghanistan

Long Neglected, Camps in Kabul Get a Deluge of Aid

By ROD NORDLAND

KABUL, Afghanistan — The 6,000 refugees living in the Charahi Qambar camp did not object when American soldiers came by Saturday to deliver 1,100 blankets for the families there. Nor did they mention that the day before, an Afghan aid group, Aschiana, had also made a delivery of blankets, and was planning to come back on Sunday with clothing — at least the third such donation in a few days, the others coming from businessmen.

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