Not far from the Intercontinental Hotel in south Kabul I spoke to a group of 870 refugees, Pashtun farmers from Helmand who had fled US air strikes.
ALI RASH, Iraq — This remote village high in the rugged mountains along the border with Iran has been deserted, its people having fled Iranian air and artillery bombardments with everything they could carry and whatever livestock that could be coaxed down the steep mountain trails.
The number of 311 noise complaints tends to spike in May, then dip, as it did this June, when it grew hot enough that people fled to air-conditioning.
For those who cannot flee by air or sea, the major points of exit will continue to be Egypt and Tunisia, he said.
They are fleeing bombs, air strikes, attacks from every side.
In 1762, after almost dying from lung hemorrhages, he fled the damp air of England into France, a journey he described as Tristram's flight from death.
A non-commissioned officer who fled the feared air force intelligence on Tuesday said he had been responsible for the removal of cameras from the street outside the Palestinian branch a week before the explosion.
In the past 10 days alone, some 23,000 Syrians have fled clashes and air strikes to Turkey, putting even more pressure on the Turkish government to support the ever-growing refugee population.
Two Mirage warplanes from the Libyan airforce fled a Tripoli air base and landed on the nearby island of Malta, and their pilots - two colonels - asked for political asylum, Maltese military officials said.
In both cases, U.S. and coalition air forces had not just air superiority but air supremacy as each time the Iraqi air force fled or was otherwise almost instantly neutralized, along with the bulk of that country's air defenses.
