But when a militant dressed as a soldier managed to get past the fortified walls of the defence ministry headquarters in Kabul in April killing several soldiers before being shot dead by Afghan soldiers, the government panicked.
He dressed the funding proposal up in geoengineering language because that was the way to get funds - a tactic scientists in all fields have used down the years in order to ensure their research happens (witness the boom in "bioterror"-related research after the US anthrax scares of 2001).
The two women have said they need assistance in their own homes to help them get out of bed and carry out daily tasks like getting dressed and going to the shops.
When I brought her home from her mother's, I abandoned the rules I had set and let her do whatever she wanted, in fact my mother and grandmother visited the next day and she forgot that she was supposed to getdressed before receiving visitors.