Glad to know all is well. As for modern wepons, a while ago, I posted a picture of a standard-ussue Ethopian weapon of the 60's--a hand forged spear head. With that, they ain't doing bad in Afganistan.
John, is Afganistan similar to Pakistian? One my places of visit when I was a kid. Out of all the thrid world places in which I spent my formitive years (I came back to America with the notion that a 'gentelmen' of any upbringing always faced away from the street and would pee against the building, not facing the street, pissin in the drainage ditch) Karatchi was the biggest, super shithole in the world.