The Blood of the Lambs

A month after U.S. bombs first fell on Afghanistan, a widow in western Pakistan opened her door to two men with straggling beards, native clothes and skin streaked orange with self-tanning cream. Three weeks earlier, the woman's husband, a Protestant pastor, had been in church when three gunmen stormed in shouting "Allahu akbar!" and killed him and 14 worshipers.

By Claudia Kolker

March 28, 2004