USA Today via MSN.com, Nov. 26, 2021; Dhr. Seven, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Afghan girl from famous cover photo evacuated to Italy following Taliban takeover
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| Wish I knew I was famous; I didn't get credit |
The office of Premier Mario Draghi said Italy organized the evacuation of Sharbat Gula after she asked to be helped to leave the country. The Italian government will now help to get her integrated into life in Italy, the statement said.
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| US military ruined another Asian nation |
Gula gained international fame in 1984 as an Afghan refugee girl, after war photographer Steve McCurry’s photograph of her, with piercing green eyes, was published on the cover of National Geographic. [She never knew she became world famous.] McCurry found her again in 2002 [to tell her and see what she had grown up be]. More
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