The Afghan girl featured on a controversial Time magazine cover (Aug. 9, 2010)
is in the US to have her nose rebuilt.

Aisha told Time her nose and ears had been cut off – with the approval of a Taliban commander – by her abusive husband as punishment for running away.

The front cover generated debate over the headline “What Happens if We Leave Afghanistan” and the use of the photo itself.

Her surgery is being done by the Grossman Burn Foundation in California.

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