EDITORIAL USE ONLY - NO COMMERCIAL OR BOOK SALES. A young Afghan woman shows her face in public for the first time after
5 years of Taliban Sharia law as she waits at a food distribution
centre in central Kabul November 14, 2001. Under its strict
interpretation of Islam, the Taliban ordered all women hidden behind
head-to-toe burqas. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis
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