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THE ROAD TO KABUL by Peter Nolan Smith

January 13, 2013 – 5:12 pm

Afghanistan was a two-day drive from Italy in the summer of 1972. At the end of the school year my friend Gianni bought a school bus in Milano and told his parents that he was going on vacation. Kabul was his destination. His parents offered to pay the gas, viewing the venture as a mind-expanding [...]

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Hashish Burp

April 21, 2008 – 7:46 am

The Koh Samui emergency ward was surprised to discover the cause of a middle-aged tourist’s  stomach cramps was nearly a kilo of hashish worth approx. one million baht. After a two-hour battle to extract a long plastic bag extracted from the Englishman’s intestines, police arrested him on charges of smuggling the Class 5 drug onto [...]

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