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Forces of fear: US as bad as Taliban, refugees claim

Sayed Mohammad is ­preparing to leave his home in Marja with his children, wife and brother.

All of them are piled into a ­tractor alongside some ­furniture and three chickens.

Mohammad’s dirty turban signals his poverty, and his four children, covered in dust, look frightened and try to hide in their mother’s arms.