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After Amir returns to Kabul, he reflects upon the history of his ancestors and remembers his grandfather, stating "my great-grandfather had married his third wife a year before dying in the cholera epidemic that hit Kabul in 1915" (Hosseini 253).
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A man named Zahir Shah began his forty-year ruling "in 1933, the year Baba was born" (Hosseini 26).
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A man named Zahir Shah began his 40 year ruling of Afghanistan "in 1933, the year Baba was born'" (Hosseini 26).
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Hassan was born in 1964, "just one year after my mother died giving birth to me" (Hosseini 6) says Amir. This means that Amir was born in 1963.
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Amir tells that Hassan and him are as close to brothers as can be. One big reason for this is that Hassan was "born in the winter of 1964, just one year after my mother died giving birth to me" (Hosseini 6)
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Although Amir feels sad his mother is dead, he feels sorry for Hassan because "one cold winter day in 1064...Sanaubar ran off with a clan of traveling singers and dancers" (Hosseini 6). Sanaubar is Hassan's mother.
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When Amir was five or six years old "in the late 1960s...Baba decided to build an orphanage" (Hosseini 14).
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When Amir is in the U.S., he remembers the "night in 1973, the night Zahir Shah’s cousin overthrew him; I remembered gunfire and the sky lighting up silver" (Hosseini 385).
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As a gift from Baba "in 1974,... Hassan’s harelip" (Hosseini 231). was repaired through surgery.
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The last time Amir was at peace with his action was "in the winter of 1975, [he] saw Hassan run a kite for the last time" (Hosseini 59).
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The end of the Afghan way of life would be in "April 1978 with the communist coup d`e`tat" (Hosseini 36).
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In 1978, two years after the Taliban had banned knife fighting, "they massacred the Hazaras in Mazar-i-Sharif" (Hosseini 225).
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The year after the communist coup d`e`tat "in December 1979, when Russian tanks would roll into the very same streets where Hassan and I played, bringing the death of the Afghanistan I knew and marketing the start of a still ongoing era of bloodletting.
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Inorder to assist Babrak Karmal, the "first Soviet troops parachuted into Kabul on Dec. 27 1979"(New York Times).
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After many years fighting in the war and loosing 15,000 lives, "the last soviet troops left Afghanistan in February 1989"(New York Times).
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After the last soviet troops left Afghanistan in 1989, "Afghanistan descended into vicious internecine strife; by the summer of 1994, power was anarchically divided amoung competing warlords and individual fiefdoms" (New York Times).
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Because of the great success of Omar, "Pakistani intelligence officers began funneling arms, money and supplies to Mullah Omar's men, as well as military advisers to help guide themin battle"(New York TImes).
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After atacking warlords that raped a young girl, Omar had become very popular and "By the end of 1994 Mullah Omar had nearly 12,000 followers and was rolling up warlords to the north and east" (New York Times).
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After the Shorawi were defeated in 1995, "Kabul belonged to Massoud, Rabbani, and the Mujahedin" (Hosseini 223).
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The group that gave Al Qaeda a save have were "The Taliban, the extremist Islamic group that had seized control in 1996 after years of civil war"(New York Times).
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After the Taliban became popular, they "provided a haven for Mr. bin Laden, who arrived by chartered jet at Jalalbad Airport in May 1996" (New York Times).
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After the long trip Amir took to see Rahim Khan and find Sohrab, he and Sohrab finally "arrived home about seven months ago, on a warm day in August 2001" (Hosseini 376).
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The U.S. has been involved in Afghanistan ever since the "Sept. 11 attacks by Al Qaeda"(New York Times).
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Afer taaking a position as interim president in 2002, "Mr. Karzai was elected to a five-year term as president in 2004" (New York Times).
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After increasing threat from the Taliban, "Obama announced his plan to deploy 30,000 additinal troops" (New York Times).