Afghan Photos

[S-2]

Here are forty-two more incredible photos from the battle on the other side-

More Afghan Photos-Boston.com November 2009

 

[Elmo]

Here are forty-two more incredible photos from the battle on the other side-

More Afghan Photos-Boston.com November 2009

Brilliant photography undoubtedly!

Nos. 2, 4, 13 and 27 ... likey-likey

 

[Elmo]

We always seem to be recovering some vehicle there while under fire.

Damned annoying work.

Sorta describes the difference between Helmand and Konar. Konar under the lens of any camera is magical.

Helmand is, well...brown. Pretty damned lush at eyeball level, it seems, down in the green-zones.

Then there's a general pre-bronze age feel to all of it. Antiquity minus the high art.

As rugged, shiny scenery goes, we have the sweet end of the deal in the east. Nuristan, Konar, Nangahar, and Khost just really, really remind me of a LOT of places where I've gone fishing in our west.

Hey... how many times have you been to Afghanistan?

 

[Huda]

nice pics.................

 

[Roby]

Here are forty-two more incredible photos from the battle on the other side-

More Afghan Photos-Boston.com November 2009

Really stunning pics..thanks for sharing

 

[apophenia]

Here are few from a personal collection.

Playing Role Reversed - 2005

Pashtun Balloon - 2005

Afghan Princess on eid day - 2005

Bad Arse Girls of Herat - 2005

 

[waraich66]

Nice pics , i wish in 2010 Afghanistan will be a free country

 

[Specialist One]

too good photos

 

[waraich66]

Similar type of Russian troops photos in Afghanistan

English Russia The War in Afghanistan

 

[Huda]

insallah in 2010 Afghanistan will be a free country

 

[S-2]

"Hey... how many times have you been to Afghanistan?"

Never. My interest in Afghanistan, though, stems from the spring of 1974 when a group of students and myself represented Afghanistan at the National Model U.N. Conference in NYC. We had a chance to meet the Afghan Representative to the U.N. Daud was "president" back then.

In 1984 and 1985, one of my closest friends spent three separate trips of six weeks apiece with the mujahideen in the Jalalabad-Kabul area just for the hell of it. No C.I.A. No sponsorship from the media. Just for the adventure.

He ended up writing a series of excellent articles for the Milwaukee Journal of Wisconsin but nothing beyond that and only after-the-fact. It caught my imagination, especially as I was serving in the military at the time of the Soviet invasion. Those were tumultuous days. Nearly on a par with now. Maybe equally so, now that I think back.

I own a bamboo fly-rod given to me by a woman who had lived in Kabul in the late 1940s with her diplomat-husband. She had no use for the flyrod but was evidently sufficiently impressed with my enthusiasm for Afghanistan that I found my way into her heart. Her stories of life in Kabul back then were other-worldly.

Anyway, my interest reaches back quite a way. It's one of the most magical places on earth. And sad...

Thanks.

 

[Ahmad]

They should plant some trees in Afghanistan. The place doesn't look very green.

This is the effect of 30 years of war(i mean proxy war) in Afghanistan. People have to keep themselves warm and have fuel to cook thier food. Majority of the trees which were planted before the war are now cut down. There were some areas which had their fruitful trees cut off by the taliban. People are now turning to other plants and bushes. And now it seems that there is shortage of these plants as well.

 

[Bhushan]

Afghanistan 2009: A Year in Photos

An Afghan man leads a donkey carrying his wife at the Shahr-e-Gholghola on a hilltop overlooking Bamiyan province on Nov. 9, 2009. Bamiyan, located some 200 kilometres northwest of Kabul, stands in a deep green and lush valley stretching through central Afghanistan, on the former Silk Road that once linked China to Central Asia and beyond.

Afghan spectators pour water onto a pair of duelling dogs during a dog fighting match in Kabul on Jan. 2, 2009. Previously, outlawed under Taliban rule, dog-fighting is now legal and very popular in Afghanistan. From November to March, thousands of Afghans gather on the western outskirts of Kabul each Friday to watch the spectacle.

Afghan Shiite men beat themselves with chains and blades during a Muslim ritual part of Ashura celebrations in Kabul on Jan. 7, 2008. Shiites, in crowds numbering in the hundreds, crowd the streets of Kabul during the annual Ashura ceremonies. Ashura is a period of mourning in remembrance of the seven-century martyrdom of Prophet Mohammad's grandson Imam Hussein who was killed in a battle in Karbala in Iraq, in 680 AD.

Afghans leave after receiving donations in Kabul on Jan. 23, 2009.

A burqa-clad Afghan woman walks past an elderly man sitting in the sunshine in the old city of Kabul on Jan. 29, 2009.

 

[Bhushan]

A young girl who lost her arm during a U.S. attack watches her father pray at a refugee camp on Feb. 12, 2009 in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Afghans walk down a snowy street during a snowstorm in Kabul on Feb. 13, 2009.

In this picture taken on Feb. 7, 2009, U.S. soldiers talk with Afghan children during a patrol in the village of Narizah in Khost province, southeast of Kabul.

Afghan men walk among the remains of Russian military vehicles on the outskirts of Kabul on Feb. 14, 2009 on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the Soviet troop withdrawal from Afghanistan.

A young Afghan girl waits in a line for distribution of food by the Afghan National Army during a Civil Military Cooperation operation in Dawlatkhel on Feb. 16, 2009.

 

[Bhushan]

A U.S. Army soldier with the 1-6 Field Artillery division takes a retina scan of an Afghan man while patrolling an area in Gandalabog, Afghanistan on Feb. 18, 2009.

A member of the U.S. Army 1-6 Field Artillery division rests on his vehicle while conducting a joint military exercise with the Afghan National Army on Feb. 23, 2009 in Nuristan Province, Afghanistan.

U.S. soldiers sit inside a plane at a U.S. airbase outside Bishkek in Manas on February 26, 2009. The soldiers, who had been serving with ISAF forces in Afghanistan, make a layover on their way to Germany.

A man holds his child in the morning chill as the U.S. Army 1-6 Field Artillery division patrols his village on Feb. 26, 2009 in Pigal, Afghanistan.

A set of security lights illuminate the landscape at Bagram Air Base on March 2, 2009 in Bagram, Afghanistan.