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Rebuilding Afghanistan
September 25, 2006
Sarah Chayes writer
Sebastian Junger reporter, ABC News
Jessica Stern lecturer, public policy, Harvard

Former National Public Radio correspondent Sarah Chayes, who has been living in the former Taliban stronghold of Kandahar, and award-winning journalist Sebastian Junger, who has covered Afghanistan for ABC News and other publications, discuss efforts to help reconstruct Afghanistan after 9/11. Jessica Stern, an expert on terrorism who teaches at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, moderates.

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