Through the window of his armored vehicle, the Vice President of Afghanistan points to a poorly lit roundabout.
"According to the CIA, this is where I should die - not too long ago ..."
No dramaturgy in his voice: Amrullah Saleh has so often come close to death that he awaits it with disconcerting calm.
On September 9, when the peace negotiations were about to begin in Doha, his convoy was targeted by an attack.
Hidden in the cart of a traveling merchant, the half-ton of explosives was activated a second too early, killing a dozen civilians in the process in the center of Kabul.
Last year, it was his campaign headquarters that was attacked with heavy weapons, killing 20 and wounding around 50.
However, the man refuses to shut himself up in a palace-bunker while biding his time.
Like his mentor, Commandant Massoud, who used to read poetry between two military maneuvers, Saleh believes that winning the war also means knowing, at times,
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