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...presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama started his second day in Afghanistan in a thoroughly American manner: a breakfast of bacon and eggs. He dined with American troops on a military base in the capital, Kabul, with his congressional traveling companions, Senators Chuck Hagel and Jack Reed. As they ate they were joined by soldiers from their respective states - Illinois, Nebraska and Rhode Island - for convivial conversations about what was going on in Afghanistan, life back at home, and the presidential campaign. "The food was good, but the companionship and friendship was even better," says Lt. Col. David Johnson...
...Baghdad, which will be the Senator's second visit to Iraq. Obama started his visit to Afghanistan with a briefing at Bagram Air force Base on Saturday, followed by a quick helicopter trip to the eastern province of Nangahar where he met with the provincial governor. He returned to Kabul in the evening and stayed the night at the U.S. embassy. In an interview aired Sunday morning on CBS's Face the Nation, Obama called the situation in Afghanistan "precarious" and "urgent," and stressed that Washington needs to start planning now to send more troops to the country rather than...
...Jamshed spits a bit when he talks - hopefully he cooks in silence. He claims that after being told by the (real) KFC regional HQ in Lahore, Pakistan, that opening a franchise in Kabul would cost him a few hundred thousand dollars, he opted to go the pirate route. He claims to have bought the U.S.-based KFC's secret fried chicken recipe on the black market for $1,200, although obviously that claim can't be verified. "You can get anything at the bazaar in Pakistan," he says. And he filched real KFC iconography off the Internet for his restaurant...
...Jamshed and Mirwais have something of a rivalry between their respective Kabul Fried Chicken outlets. They refer to each other euphemistically as "friends more than partners," though in reality they're neither. Each claims to be Kabul's original KFC imitator, and accuses the other of stealing the recipe from him. Imitation, of course, is endemic to Afghanistan's business environment. "We're an underdeveloped country," Mirwais says. "So we can't come up with our own ideas...
...while both owners defend their own knocking off of a global brand, they share a moral flexibility that allows each to complain of the other's transgression. Each claims Kabul Fried Chicken was his idea (sort of). And now there are four...