1.   Although failing to rescue the Afghan women, the advocates were credited for playing a role in stopping actions that might have further entrenched the Taliban.

2.   And she notes that one of the few choices Afghan women could make under Taliban rule was on the color of their burqas.

3.   And then the Afghan women took off their burkas.

4.   At one point, for instance, an Afghan woman complains about how the United States bears responsibility for bringing the Taliban regime to power.

5.   Attendants were encouraged to try on burqas to get a sense of what the restrictive garment is like for Afghan women.

6.   A group of Afghan women in traditional burkas near the Kacha Gari refugee camp.

7.   A physician who has campaigned on behalf of Afghan women says they still endure lives of fear and peril despite the routing of the hard-line Taliban regime.

8.   Afghan women are subjected to rape, murder, and looting under the spreading reign of the warlords.

9.   Afghan women in the prison did not fare as well.

10.   Afghan women say they are disappointed that no woman from inside the country was invited to the conference in Bonn, Germany, on the future of Afghanistan.