Thursday, May 14, 2009
Three Looks at Afghanistan
Just some links today.
The first two links describe the same ambush on a patrol in Afghanistan's Korangal Valley, but from different perspectives.
The Taliban attacked by detonating a bomb after part of the patrol had passed the position of the bomb, thus dividing the patrol in half. The first link is to a film of the patrol made by a video team that was in the rear.
http://video.nytimes.com/video/2009/05/13/world/asia/1194840189965/stalemate-in-korangal-valley.html
The second link is to photos made by a photographer (Tyler Hicks) who was in the forward part of the patrol.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/04/19/world/20090420-aliabad-ambush/index.html?scp=7&sq=Tyler%20Hicks&st=cse
Last year Tyler Hicks also took these pictures of Kabul.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/07/06/weekinreview/kabul-multimedia/index.html?scp=3&sq=Tyler%20Hicks&st=cse
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Sad, frustrating situation. Brave people fighting on both sides. What will the answer ever be for Afghanistan.
From news reports of several years ago, I was struck by the beauty of the Afghan peoples' faces.
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