Quotes of the Day

An Afghan soldier looks on as hundreds of men listen to Karim Khalili, Afghanistan's second vice president, at a local shura in Marja, Afghanistan on March 1, 2010
Tuesday, Mar. 09, 2010

Open quoteThose people whose hands are red with blood, those people who killed hundreds — they are still ruling over this nation.Close quote

  • HAJJI ABDUL AZIZ,
  • a leading elder in Marjah, Afghanistan, on the government officials who preyed on the town before it became a Taliban refuge
Photo: Dion Nissenbaum / MCT / Landov | Source: NYT