(CNN, November 12, 1995)

Reporter:	It has been four months since the Dark Kingdom conquest of
		Afganistan, and life has mostly returned to normal. Bob
		Geldoff, in Kabul, has more.

(scene cut from CNN stage to a bustling beige dirt street, filled with happy
people and construction crews) 

BG:	One would hardly think that this country had been, just four months
	ago, home to one of the bloodiest civil wars in the world.

	In June, the Islamic fundamentalist movement known as Taliban was
	fighting its way north, against the loosely allied counter-forces
	known as the Northern Alliance.  A country already torn by years of
	war, first against the Soviet Union, then against each other, was
	about to be plunged into a reign of religious terror to rival
	Medieaval Europe.

	Taliban believed in an interpretation of the Sharia, Islamic laws,
	that banned women from working outside the home, public view, or any
	legal protection other than as male property.  Their interpretation
	was so harsh that even the Ayatollah Khomeni(sp) of Iran requested
	that they loosen it.

	In the middle of June, the Taliban made another rocket attack on
	civilian parts of Kabul, and attempted to stone a woman to death on
	charges they could not substantiate when Dark Kingdom Special Police
	agents questioned them, after rescuing the woman.

(footage of a woman, dressed in enveloping blue, cowering behind four other
people, as they deflect rocks)
(footage of Dark Kingdom Militia, mostly very dark-skinned, walking down a
rural road, distributing food)

	King Serenity acted that day.  By nightfall this country of
	twenty-five million was inundated with thirty million Dark Kingdom
	Militia, six hundred thousand Dark Kingdom Normal Police, and five
	hundred Dark Kindom Special Police.

(footage of ragged fighters coming forward, into the throng of Dark Kingdom
forces, speaking with a Special Police officer for a moment, who lays hands on
each before letting them go, still armed.  Most take at least a plate of food
from the tables before leaving)

	All of the armed combatants were offered surrender terms hinging on
	their agreement to follow the Dark Kindom Rules.  Most of the Northern
	Alliance fighters accepted.  Some of the lower-ranked Taliban forces
	did as well.

(footage of King Serenity, addressing a crowd.  Her grey uniform is mottled
with darker spots, which one, having seen this footage before, knows are
blood.  Her right foot is up on something as she leans forward, earnestly
addressing the people in front of her, whom we cannot see.  The camera bobbles
for a moment, and we realize that the something is a severed human head)

	The upper ranks of Taliban, to a man, refused to surrender, even after
	King Serenity personally killed fifty of the highest ranking in front
	of them.

	By dawn the next morning, the Taliban movement was dead, and the Dark
	Kingdom had been recognized by Iran, Pakistan, and Russia as the
	legitimate government of Afganistan.

	Despite continued protest by much of the Democratic world, life is
	improving in Afganistan.  The ravages of war are being healed, Dark
	Kingdom aid has stabilized the economy, and the refugees are
	returning.

	To the average Afgan, the Dark Kingdom has provided nothing short of a
	miracle.

(cut back to CNN stage.  Different reporter)

Reporter:	Thank you, Bob.  We'll be back with more news in just a
		moment.

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log:
2001/Sept/11:	Started thinking about how KS and/or the DK would react to
		the WTC attacks.
2001/Sept/18:	looking into the Afganistan situation, I realized that she
		wouldn't have ever let the Taliban take Afganistan.
2001/Sept/21:	wrote this.