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9/11 widows help Afghanistan war widows

May 11, 2006

Kabul, Afghanistan - The two American women walk down a fly-infested alley where sewage from mud huts drains onto the dirt walkway.

Patti Quigley and Susan Retik - whose husbands were killed in the Sept. 11 attacks - decided to use the financial support they received afterward to help war widows in Afghanistan, where the al-Qaida planners of the terror strikes found harbor. On Thursday, they met for the first time one of the recipients of their donations - an Afghan mother who now has a small chicken farm.

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