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Kabul fell prey to men who looked like they had tumbled out of their mothers with Kalashnikov in hand...

Kabul fell prey to men who looked like they had tumbled out of their mothers with Kalashnikov in hand...

Approximate author period: c. 1965 AD · modern

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Attribution & collection notes
Author or tradition
Khaled Hosseini
Attribution: attributed
Country attributed
Not established
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Historical period
Approximate author period: c. 1965 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from documented birth year 1965; activity date not established; Wikidata Q193116, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q193116 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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Recorded source
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Supplied reference C; CSV row 356928; supplied attribution, independently unverified

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