Afghanistan in picture (43 photos total) Saturday, November 27th marked a
milestone in Afghanistan - after that day passed, the United States and its
allies have now been in Afghanistan longer than the Soviet Union had been when
it withdrew in 1989. Recent announcements by the U.S. appear to show that it
plans to remain at least another four years. In the south, U.S. forces are
increasingly encountering abandoned buildings that are heavily booby-trapped
as they pursue the Taliban, leading them to systematically destroy the
structures. Arghandab district governor Shah Muhammed Ahmadi said "In some
villages where only a few houses were contaminated by bombs, we called the
owners and got their agreement to destroy them, In some villages like Khosrow
that were completely empty and full of IED's, we destroyed them without
agreement because it was hard to find the people - and not just Khosrow, but
many villages. We had to destroy them to make them safe." Collected here are
images of the country and conflict over the past month, part of an ongoing
monthly series on Afghanistan.
20Afghan boys take aim with toy guns as they enact a scene of gun battle on
the second day of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, or Feast of the
Sacrifice, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2010 (AP Photo/Altaf
Qadri)
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