Afghan Women Head To Battle

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Under Cover Of Darkness, Afghan Women Head To Battle -- NBC 

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN -- Severely outgunned, the battle was going badly. It seemed like certain defeat. Then, from out of the crowd stepped a young girl of around 14. She grabbed the pole from the fallen flag-bearer, held it up, and called out to her brothers-in-arms to fight to the death.

Though she was shot dead, her rallying cry was seen as the turning point of the 1880 Battle of Maiwand; a triumph for the Afghans, and a devastating loss for British forces during the Second Anglo-Afghan War. Her name was Malalai, Afghanistan’s Joan of Arc.

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My Comment: I suspect that for these Afghan women soldiers the "front line" is everywhere .... and probably also within their own home.

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