Wazir Akbar Khan (Kabul)

Wazir Akbar Khan (Kabul)

Wazir Akbar Khan is a wealthy suburb of Kabul, Afghanistan where many embassies are located including the U.S. and Canadiancite news
url=http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/world/embassies/mission-en.asp?MID=A54
title=The Embassy of Canada to Afghanistan
publisher=Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada
date=August 22 2006
accessdate=2008-01-15] embassies. The neighbourhood is named after the Akbar Khan, son of the anti-Shuja Shah Durrani king Dost Mohammad and is a common place for foreign workers to live. The streets are laid out on a grid with Western, two-storey houses that date back to the 60s and 70s. [ [http://sacredcows.typepad.com/weblog/2007/01/banana_republic.html Sacred Cows: Banana Republic ] ]

The early part of the novel "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini is set in this suburb.

According to Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts the Wazir Akbar Khan neighborhood "... is sic controlled and inhabited by al Qaida personnel."cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_1_Factors_000295-000393.pdf#84
title=Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Ajam, Ahmed Adnan Muhammad
date=20 September 2005
pages=pages 84-85
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-03-06] cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_2_Factors_399-498.pdf#93
title=Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Ahjm, Ahmed Adnan
date=21 May 2006
pages=pages 93-94
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-03-06]

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