Day 1,821 - Rashid's Story

The call reached Rashid at eleven at night, which in Afghanistan in 2007 meant someone had worked hard to place it. One of the company's flatbed trucks had broken down in Shah Joy district, on the Kabul to Kandahar highway. The military convoy escorting it had moved the container onto another truck and continued the mission. The driver was still out there. Rashid was the transport manager, and…