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    <body><![CDATA[Kabul 24 by Henry O. Arnold and Ben Pearson Foreward by Michael W. Smith<br/><br/>This book is about 24 men and women that worked for Shelter Now International in Afghanistan. They worked there for years and the main story happens to take place immediately before and following the World Trade Cent...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76314761">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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