Afghanistan - The Toughest Battle - Kite Running - 14 May 07

Al Jazeera's David Foster learns first-hand about the Afghan obsession with kite fighting when he is taken to a Kabul graveyard to participate in the game.

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News & Politics

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• al
• jazeera
• afghanistan
• david
• foster
• kite
• flying
• fighting
• running
• kabul
• graveyard

[Bryden15McNamara]

Thumbs up if "The Kite Runner" brought you here!

One of the best books I've ever read!

[TheSharewired]

@eksman187 I am a European, but I have also lived in KABUL for a while, i prefer kite running, than sitting at home in-front of a computer, or watching a movie.

Kite Running is fun, its social, its not something you do alone, you do it with family, neighbors, everything that is non existent in the west.

The majority of those people would not have a computer, but there are so many that do have computers, they do not want to sit at home.

don't knock it till you try it

[HHHPedigrees]

I came here because of the kite runner. I still don't get how you cut someone's kite or how to control your kite when its so high up in the air. And why does Amir's hands get cut whenever he cuts someone's kite?

[WillShakespeare2007]

So this journalist risked being kidnapped and beheaded to report on kite flying.

[iluvpoliticzz]

oooooooooo so THIS is how russia got wooped! lol

[wvivamilan]

Thums up if you are happy kites fly over Kabul again!

[WoWbobby3]

@wan2shuffle naa man its a really powerfull book based in this part of Afghanistan check it out sometime

[WoWbobby3]

@Bryden15McNamara very depressing book but amazingly written

[Fooludontknowme]

@HavocMayhemChaos actually other contries do, USA, Brazil, and Venezula here in the Americas, Many Islands in the Carribean, and India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nepal, Japan, and Korea in Asia.

[MrHaga420]

nice kites

[HavocMayhemChaos]

why couldnt other countries do something like this? this looks mad fun, and even sounded alot of fun in the kite runner (one of the most powerful stories eer written)

[nextlevel2burittos]

ha even the inocent kite is deadly over there!! lol