Source: NBC News via Wasim Sr.
A chicken vendor in Kabul, Afghanistan expresses sympathy for Bostonians after the marathon attack.By Ron Mott, Correspondent, NBC News
KABUL – After more than three decades of war, you would think Afghans would be desensitized to violent attacks like the Boston Marathon explosion. A Boston-based documentary filmmaker found just the opposite.
Instead of disregard, she found empathy among Kabul’s residents for the three killed and more than 170 injured in the twin bomb blasts at the center of Boston 6,500 miles away. And she has the images to prove it.
In the wake of the attacks, Beth Murphy awakened Tuesday morning in Afghanistan to a confounding text message from her husband.
“I thought at first I was re-reading my own message to him saying, ‘Yes, I’m OK’,” said Beth Murphy. She was referring to a text message she had sent her husband about a large-scale Taliban attack in western Afghanistan on April 3 that left more than 40 people dead.
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