WOKEN by the deafening thump of rotor blades, Haji Bashir Khan crept on to his roof and watched, under a warm and moonless sky, as American special forces stormed his neighbour's compound. "Yes, we were scared. We don't have terrorism here," says the middle-aged restaurateur. He heard shooting and screams, then felt an explosion as a grounded helicopter was destroyed. The blast broke his bedroom window and strewed blackened bits of the chopper over a nearby wheat field.
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