31.  In the five years since the Taliban captured the Afghan capital, Kabul, the clandestine trade has flourished in the face of numerous hurdles.

32.  In the Afghan capital of Kabul, U.S. Marines secured the abandoned grounds of the American Embassy.

33.  In the Afghan capital, Kabul, there were also signs of life beginning anew.

34.  In the war-torn Afghan capital, there are new hopes for peace.

35.  In the Afghan capital, Kabul, protests converged on the U.S. Embassy.

36.  Instead, all U.N. relief agencies pulled their foreign staff workers out of the Afghan capital when the shelling began, and ended their operations.

37.  Interviews with intelligence officials in Pakistan and Kabul, and conversations with knowledgeable residents in the Afghan capital present a picture of a growing closeness between the two men.

38.  It was the American network with the closest camera position to the Afghan capital.

39.  Kabul, the Afghan capital, was plunged into darkness.

40.  Karzai presides over a reasonably stable area around the Afghan capital.