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Taliban Foe Celebrates Girls' School Reopening

by Philip Reeves, NPR
August 6, 2009

Ziauddin Yusefzai ignored the Taliban's death threats when they took over his city in Pakistan's Swat Valley. He marched against the militants and for as long as he could, kept running his school for girls. He is now celebrating because the Taliban is out of the city and his girls are returning to school.

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