Terry P Pitzner

Kite and Canaries Forbidden Terry P Pitzner

In Kabul, dreadful, deadly rockets and Scud missiles rained in on us from the Taliban and War Lords, all fighting for years to control Kabul. Ultimately, Taliban invaded and their un-Islamic, ruthless cultural beliefs led to them holding me hostage in my home, and perpetrating the savage un-Islamic desecration and tortuous deaths of President Najibullah and his brother Ahmedzai, who had UN Safe Haven in the UN UNSMA Offices. My seven years in Afghanistan included developing and managing two refugee camps; re-establishing UNHCR Offices and our presence in Kabul as Head of Office; and UN Team Leader and the UN Area Security Coordinator. I was the focal point for all these responsibilities, reporting to my superiors in Islamabad. The Taliban had no idea what the civilized world was all about and to top it off, they were all I had to work within a struggle to develop a new government, replacing the one they had just demolished, and-with any luck at all-to fit into the global scene.