lured more underage workers.]]> creaky old Toyotas, and Afghan military vehicles filled with gunmen.]]> croak.]]> disabled father, mother, three brothers and five sisters.]]> flung against its curved walls to bake into the flat loaves known as khasa and the round loaves called kamachi.]]> smuggle illegal drugs or serve as soldiers.]]> carcasses hung from hooks.]]> corrupt, and the Americans are part of it."]]> alternatives for poor families and their children.]]> estimate is nearly 2 million between the ages of 6 and 17, or at least 25 percent of Afghan children, Hashemi said.]]> scramble for any job to survive.]]> cramped storefront.]]> scrawny body as a croak.]]> emerges from his scrawny body as a croak.]]> expert for UNICEF in Afghanistan.]]>