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    Tears from Kabul: Tears from Kabul, #1
    Tears from Kabul: Tears from Kabul, #1
    Tears from Kabul: Tears from Kabul, #1
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    Tears from Kabul: Tears from Kabul, #1

    By Michael P Buckley

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    The women will have three days to stop pursuing an education and return back to their homes, Thursday morning at 09:00 is the deadline set by the Taliban. If the women do not return to their homes by then, Dawar will be executed. Dawar is Niki's little brother who is only eight years old. Niki is the leader for the women who are trying to receive an education.

    Tensions are high and the clock is ticking, time is running out for Dawar, Will SSGT Jones be able to save Dawar and the women from the Taliban?
    Word count: 16,113. Contains violence and adult language.

     

     

     

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMichael P Buckley
    Release dateOct 13, 2013
    ISBN9781497722972
    Tears from Kabul: Tears from Kabul, #1
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    Michael P Buckley

    Michael Buckley is 61 years old, currently living in the Philippines. He served 3 1/2 years in the US Army in the Infantry. He worked in Iraq for seven years, and Afghanistan for one year. He enjoys writing stories from his vivid imagination.  Michael's Blog can be found here: http://mikga45.blogspot.com/ https://www.facebook.com/pages/Michael-buckley/131615023677907 https://twitter.com/mikga45

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      Tears from Kabul - Michael P Buckley

      Chapter 1

      The Afghan government had a huge problem on their hands. They asked the US forces for help. The meeting was set up for all the NATO commanders of ISAF to meet at 19:00 hours at an undisclosed location. The meeting had begun.

      The Afghan president stood at the podium, his hands gripping the side of the podium so hard his knuckles were turning white. His face was turning a shade of red. He picked up his glass of water and threw it across the room, shattering the glass into tiny pieces when it smashed into the wall.

      Now that I have your attention, with the draw down of forces, NATO forces would be leaving Afghanistan. The streets filled with people ready to erupt, fear could be felt in the air. Demonstrations and rioting would be next. He did not have the manpower to handle the public disarray and to chase after the Taliban at the same time. And poisoning of women in the schools had been increasing at an alarming rate.

      Women were succumbing to poison in schools. Death threats and everyday harassment had become a way of life for the women trying to get an education.

      Lt Gen Carmichael would be overall in charge of the newly formed NATO force to stop the Taliban.

      They decided from past missions that the man he would pick to run the mission was a SSGT Jones US ARMY. If there was a man who was better trained or better suited for the mission than SSGT Jones, he hadn’t heard of him. The other commanders from other countries kept their mouths shut. They all knew of SSGT Jones and they all agreed there was no one better suited.

      General Carmichael told his assistant to get SSGT Jones over here ASAP. The General told the other commanders to get some coffee and the meeting would continue as soon as SSGT Jones arrived. The General would talk to the Afghan president while they waited to find out the time frame he needed the task force fully operational by. Then he would try to get some Intel on the Taliban group they would be hunting down.

      SSGT Jones showed up thirty minutes later and the meeting resumed. The details why SSGT Jones was attending the meeting were gone through. The question now, what’s needed to put the group together.

      He’s aware of having two people from the British, Canadian and Afghan police. He requested five men from all Countries, sent over to include five Afghan’s.

      The General would assign a full bird colonel to give information to SSGT Jones, any lower rank might be held up, or asked questions. COL Wilson would be the messenger. He would receive information from the Afghan president as well as the General. The information he receives given to SSGT Jones. So he can keep up to date, on any new information on the Taliban and the women in the schools.

      The general and the President decided it would be best to use safe houses to allow the women to continue their education. When the military came to Afghanistan, all the old drug lords abandon their houses. They made out like a bandit. They rent the same houses to the military at 50,000 plus a month for rent, depending on the size of the houses. The houses vary in size, nice three bedroom houses, to mansions with ten plus rooms. The houses were nice but the cement on the outer walls, deteriorating and falling off the walls. They had plenty of houses to use for educational purposes for the Afghan women.

      Arrangements made to give the NATO commanders one day, to pick five people each. The second day they would report to SSGT Jones. COL Wilson set up a meeting the following day at one of the safe houses, which the women would be using for their education. The meeting was set for 0:9:00 hours with SSGT Jones and the leader of the women whom they called Niki.

      SSGT Jones the following day arrived thirty minutes early with COL Wilson at the safe house to meet Niki. Twenty minutes later Niki arrived; she stood about 5 feet tall and appeared to be slender. She was wearing a chadri Burga, it was hard to tell who she was under her clothing. Niki went inside the building and changed her clothes, she came out in western culture style pants and a shirt with a scarf wrapped around her head.

      She was an attractive and intelligent woman, brown eyes and brown hair. She spoke better English, than SSGT Jones. She had a slight accent. SSGT Jones was a black American, who grew up in Brooklyn, and has his own accent. He was 6 ft 2 inches and weighed 230 lbs of solid muscle. He spent a lot of his free time in

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