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14 September 2010

Afghanistan Wartime Architecture Series: http://cryptome.org/info/af-war-arch/af-war-arch.htm

Afghanistan Wartime Architecture September 2010 Part 2
Shia Muslim Hazara Afghan men and women arrive for parliamentary candidate Mohammad Mohaqiq's election campaign event in Kabul on September 13, 2010. Afghanistan, plagued by an increasingly deadly Taliban-led insurgency, is due to hold its second post-Taliban parliamentary elections on September 18 amid fears that attacks might disrupt the vote. Getty	An Iranian female prisoner stands with children of female prisoners in a kindergarten at a prison in Herat, western Afghanistan September 13, 2010. The prison houses approximately 2,000 male prisoners, 118 female prisoners and also has approximately 35 children living with their mothers who are serving their prison sentences. The prisoners are currently serving sentences for offences ranging from murder, smuggling of drugs and robbery and for some women, escape from home. Reuters
Prison commander Abdolmajid Sadeghi watches as relatives of prisoners stand in line for visitation in Herat, western Afghanistan September 13, 2010. The prison houses approximately 2,000 male prisoners, 118 female prisoners and also has approximately 35 children living with their mothers who are serving their prison sentences. The prisoners are currently serving sentences for offences ranging from murder, smuggling of drugs and robbery and for some women, escape from home. Reuters	An Iranian (L) and Afghan female prisoner stand along a corridor at a prison in Herat, western Afghanistan September 13, 2010. The prison houses approximately 2,000 male prisoners, 118 female prisoners and also has approximately 35 children living with their mothers who are serving their prison sentences. The prisoners are currently serving sentences for offences ranging from murder, smuggling of drugs and robbery and for some women, escape from home. Reuters
Mullah Tarakhel (Mohammadi), a Kuchi member of Parliament seeking re-election, addresses his supporters during an election campaign inside a room on the outskirts of Kabul September 13, 2010. Afghanistan will hold parliamentary elections on September 18. Reuters	Afghan female prisoners stand next to their cells at a prison in Herat, western Afghanistan September 13, 2010. The prison houses approximately 2,000 male prisoners, 118 female prisoners and also has approximately 35 children living with their mothers who are serving their prison sentences. The prisoners are currently serving sentences for offences ranging from murder, smuggling of drugs and robbery and for some women, escape from home. Reuters
An Afghan man squats in front of his half closed shop as he waits for customers during the last day of Eid al Fitr in Kabul, Afghanistan on Sunday, Sept. 12, 2010. AP	Afghan boys talk while sitting atop a hill overlooking Kabul city, September 12, 2010. Reuters
An Afghan girl and her brother (L) look on as they stand in the wind, in the village of Sefidbar, south of Herat, western Afghanistan September 12, 2010. Reuters	Afghan children are seen beside their tent in the village of Sefidbar, south of Herat, western Afghanistan September 12, 2010. Reuters
An Afghan boy (L) cries as his father tries to calm him in the village of Sefidbar, south of Herat, western Afghanistan September 12, 2010. Reuters	Afghan children sit in a house in the village of Sefidbar, south of Herat, western Afghanistan September 12, 2010. Reuters
Patients rest in the shade to take cover from the heat at a mental health centre in Herat, western Afghanistan, September 11, 2010. Reuters	A patient looks out from his room at a mental health centre in Herat, western Afghanistan, September 11, 2010. Reuters
In this photo taken Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010, an Afghan men talk to Canadian soldiers with the 1st RCR Battle Group, The Royal Canadian Regiment, as the soldiers patrol in Salavat, southwest of Kandahar, Afghanistan. Minutes later the soldiers were attacked by grenades while leaving the village. AP	A patient rests in his room at a mental health centre in Herat, western Afghanistan, September 11, 2010. Reuters
A US army soldier with the 101st Airborne Division Alpha Battery 1-320th takes cover as Combat Outpost Nolen on the outskirts of the village of Jellawar in the Arghandab Valley came under Taliban attack on September 11, 2010. The United States and NATO have 150,000 troops in Afghanistan fighting the Taliban-led insurgency, most of them in the southern hotspots of Helmand and Kandahar provinces. Getty	Smoke rises after NATO aircrafts conducted an air strike near the Arghandab river, south of Senjeray village, Kandahar province, where U.S. commanders had identified as insurgent positions Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010. AP
U.S. Marines from 1st Light Armoured Reconnaisance Battalion, Alpha Company take up positions while patrolling in Deevelak village in Helmand, Afghanistan September 11, 2010. Reuters	An Afghan girl pumps water from a wel as members of the Afghan National Army soldiers patrol the village of Saidon Kalacheh on the outskirts of the village of Jellawar in the Arghandab Valley on September 11, 2010. The United States and NATO have 150,000 troops in Afghanistan fighting the Taliban-led insurgency, most of them in the southern hotspots of Helmand and Kandahar provinces. Getty
A US army soldier with the 101st Airborne Division Alpha Battery 1-320th takes cover as Combat Outpost Nolen on the outskirts of the village of Jellawar in the Arghandab Valley came under Taliban attack on September 11, 2010. The United States and NATO have 150,000 troops in Afghanistan fighting the Taliban-led insurgency, most of them in the southern hotspots of Helmand and Kandahar provinces. Getty	A US army soldier with the 101st Airborne Division Alpha Battery 1-320th throws a fragmentation genade as Combat Outpost Nolen on the outskirts of the village of Jellawar in the Arghandab Valley came under Taliban attack on September 11, 2010. The United States and NATO have 150,000 troops in Afghanistan fighting the Taliban-led insurgency, most of them in the southern hotspots of Helmand and Kandahar provinces. Getty
Afghan men walk outside the Eid Gah mosque for Eid al-Fitr prayers in Kabul on September 10, 2010. The Eid festival, marking the end of the fasting month of Ramadan, has been declared on September 10 for most parts of the world including Afghanistan. Eid al-Fitr celebrates the purification achieved by a month of sunrise-to-sunset fasting, one of the five pillars of Islam, and is marked by several days of festivities. Getty	An Afghan soldier looks through a window into the Eid Gah mosque during Eid al-Fitr prayers in Kabul on September 10, 2010. The Eid festival, marking the end of the fasting month of Ramadan, has been declared on September 10 for most parts of the world including Afghanistan. Eid al-Fitr celebrates the purification achieved by a month of sunrise-to-sunset fasting, one of the five pillars of Islam, and is marked by several days of festivities. Getty
Cpt Jeff Thomasson, commander of 101st Airborne Division Alpha Battery 1-320th, fires a mortar at insurgents from Combat Outpost Nolen as one of his platoons came under Taliban attack on the outskirts of Arghandab valley's Jellawar town on September 9, 2010. The United States and NATO have 150,000 troops in Afghanistan aiming to quell the insurgency that began soon after the Taliban regime was overthrown in a US-led invasion in late 2001. Getty	An Afghan National Army (ANA) soldier reads a magazine with a portrait of late resistance leader Ahmad Shah Masood during a ceremony to mark the ninth anniversary of his assassination, in Kabul on September 8, 2010. Masood, nicknamed the 'Lion of the Panjshir' for his armed struggle against the Taliban that ruled Afghanistan at the time, died September 9, 2001 when two Tunisians posing as journalists with fake Belgian passports detonated a bomb hidden in the camera as they pretended to interview him. His death, just two days before the September 11 attacks in New York and Washington, has been linked to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network by US officials. Getty
Red Army soldier and his dog Natacha sits on Russian-made armoured personnel vehicle (BMPE) 05 February 1986 as he guards Afghan military airport of the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif during Red Army withdrawal from Afghanistan. The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in December 1979 to shore up the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul and maintained more than 100,000 troops in the country until completing their phased withdrawal in 1989. Getty	Afghan Dervishes pray at a religious ritual to mark the final day of the holy month of Ramadan before the festival of Eid-al-Fitr at the Khajeh Abdolah Ansari holy shrine in Herat, western Afghanistan September 9, 2010. Reuters
An Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers and US army soldiers with the 101st Airborne Division Alpha Battery 1-320th pose at Lugo patrol base on the outskirts of Arghandab Valley's Jellawar village on September 8, 2010. US President Barack Obama has recently appeared to step back from a pledge that US forces would begin withdrawing from Afghanistan in July 2011 and has already deployed 30,000 extra troops as part of Washington's new counter-insurgency strategy. Getty	Afghan Sunni Muslims prepare for prayer in Jamee mosque in Herat, western Afghanistan September 8, 2010. Taliban threats, shuttered polling centres and warnings of widespread fraud are clouding hopes for Afghanistan's Sept. 18 parliamentary election, a key test of an already fragile democracy, observers have warned. Reuters
A view of an old damaged house in the village of Mohajerin, west of Herat, western Afghanistan September 8, 2010. Taliban threats, shuttered polling centres and warnings of widespread fraud are clouding hopes for Afghanistan's Sept. 18 parliamentary election, a key test of an already fragile democracy, observers have warned. Reuters	An Afghan boy fills up gallons of drinking water in the village of Mohajerin, west of Herat, western Afghanistan September 8, 2010. Taliban threats, shuttered polling centres and warnings of widespread fraud are clouding hopes for Afghanistan's Sept. 18 parliamentary election, a key test of an already fragile democracy, observers have warned. Reuters

100913-A-1182G-0087. U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Charles White, maintenance non-commissioned officer in charge with the Civil Military Support Team and a Oak-Harbor, Wash. residents, provides security during a visit to Charikar, Parwan province, Afghanistan, Sept. 13. Members of CMST and Republic of Korea Provincial Reconstruction Team visit the city of Charikar to conduct a key leader engagement with the mayor to address his concerns on a project to clean the city trash. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Kristina Gupton)

100912-M-8957B-001. A squad of Marines cross the Helmand River after Forward Operating Base Zeegrugge in Kajaki was attacked with indirect fire, Sept. 12. Marines with India Battery, 3rd Battalion, 12th Marine Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 2, pushed a patrol out to search for possible spotters involved in the enemy mortar attack. The patrol, led by Sgt. Philip Percesepe, the squad leader for 1st Platoon, 3rd Squad, India Battery, entered several compounds searching for evidence of Taliban, and any weapons, or improvised explosive materials left behind.

100912-M-8957B-005. A squad of Marines cross the Helmand River after Forward Operating Base Zeegrugge in Kajaki was attacked with indirect fire, Sept. 12. Marines with India Battery, 3rd Battalion, 12th Marine Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 2, pushed a patrol out to investigate any suspicious activity. The patrol, led by Sgt. Philip Percesepe, the squad leader for 1st Platoon, 3rd Squad, India Battery, entered several compounds searching for weapons, improvised explosive materials and Taliban. Each Marine returned to the FOB that afternoon uninjured.

100912-A-3011W-9340. Officials from the Afghan National Security Forces and Combined Team Uruzgan finalize polling sites and security issues during a meeting Sunday 12 September 2010 at the Operations Coordination Center in Tarin Kot.

100911-A-1728-003. U.S. Army Pfc. Thomas Wade from Stafford, Va., pulls security from a dug out position in the Marawara province of Afghanistan, Sept. 11. (U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Cameron Boyd)

100911-F-8920C-034. FORWARD OPERATING BASE BULLARD, Afghanistan -- U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Jack Williams, left, a medic assigned to Provincial Reconstruction Team Zabul, uses an interpreter to communicate with medical workers during an inspection at Shah Joy District Hospital, Shah Joy District, Zabul Province, Sept. 11, 2010. The PRT inspected the hospital to assess the repair needed for an upcoming renovation. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Nathanael Callon/Released)

100911-F-8920C-004. Medics assigned to the Shah Joy district support team from the Zabul Provincial Reconstruction Team inspect the emergency room at a hospital in Shah Joy district, Zabul province, Afghanistan, Sept. 11, 2010. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Nathanael Callon/Released)

100911-F-4338B-142. A wreath stands at the site of a ceremony held Sept. 11, 2010, at the Transit Center at Manas, Kyrgyzstan, to honor the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States and the coalition forces who have died in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Nathan Bevier/Released)

U.S. EMBASSY COMMEMORATION OF SEPTEMBER 11. KABUL, AFGHANISTAN. SEPTEMBER 11, 2010

Adraskan, Afghanistan (September 10) A graduation ceremony took place for 450 ANCOP agents in Adraskan´s NATO training Centre.

100909-A-4584J-5246. Col. Jim Johnson, commander of the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team, gives Gen. David H. Petraeus on overview of the combat team's area of responsibility in Wardak Province. Petraeus, commander of NATO and International Security Assistance Force troops in Afghanistan, visited a forward operating base and two combat outposts in the area Sept. 9 to get first-hand updates on operations and to thank troops. (Photo by U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Lorie Jewell) (Released)

100909-A-4584J-5390. U.S. Army Lt. Col. Matthew McFarlane gives Gen. David H. Petraeus, commander of NATO and International Security Assistance Force troops in Afghanistan, an overview of the area surrounding Combat Outpost Carwile in Wardak Province. McFarlane, commander of 1st Battalion, 503rd Infantry and Task Force Talon, escorted Petraeus on a tour of forward operating bases and combat outposts in the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team's area of responsibility Sept. 9. The general met and thanked Afghan and international partners while getting a first-hand look at how operations are progressing. (Photo by U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Lorie Jewell) (Released)

100907-F-9208L-003. [Above and below.] A crowd of Afghan men watch a shura, or meeting, take place between village elders and members of the Kapisa Provincial Reconstruction Team in Kapisa province, Afghanistan, Sept. 7, 2010. The meeting was held to discuss a road project in the area. (DoD photo by Tech. Sgt. Joe Laws, U.S. Air Force/Released)

100907-M-1558F-018. NAWA, Helmand province, Islamic Republic of Afghanistan — Pfc. Gabe French and Sgt. Garrett W. Burner, a team leader and a squad leader with Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, walk through the halls of Khalaj High School in Nawa, Afghanistan, while conducting a security sweep Sept. 7, 2010. The school year began Sept. 5 and the Marines and their Afghan counterparts throughout 3/3’s tactical area of responsibility have provided security in Nawa District’s schools each day. French is from Nampa, Idaho. Burner is from Albany, Oregon. (Official Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Mark Fayloga)

100906-F-3322D104. Farah Provincial leadership eat Date fruits to break their fast for the day at an Iftar Dinner held at Forward Operating Base Farah in Afghanistan, Sept. 6, 2010. Dignified leaders in Farah Province, Coalition forces and United States Agency for International Development representatives gathered to take part in an Iftar Dinner hosted by The Department of State. The dinner was hosted to keep with Islamic traditions, as a gesture of respect and hospitality to Provincial Government partners. (ISAF photo by U.S. Air Force 1st Lt. Christine A. Darius)

[Above and below] Ambassador Karl Eikenberry made a visit to Kandahar, Dand and Malajat with Ghulam Jilani Popal 6 September 2010. They met with Gov. Tooryalai Wesa and a group of elders, held a press conference, and walked through the village of Malajat. US Embassy Kabul.

100905-F-3322D-080. [Above and below] The Judicial Building undergoes construction in Farah, Afghanistan, Sept. 5, 2010. Provincial Reconstruction Team engineers monitored the progress of the Judicial Building and mentored Afghan labourers on construction techniques. The Judicial Building will provide needed office space for provincial judges and construction is scheduled to be complete in the coming months. (ISAF photo by U.S. Air Force 1st Lt. Christine A. Darius)

050910 384. Qal´eh-ye Now, Afghanistan (September 05, 2010) The participants dropped flowers on the scene where the events occurred in Qala-e-Naw, Badghis province

100904-A-4834W-167. Afghan men work on an improvement project Sept. 4, 2010, at the Pul-e-Alam district hospital in Logar province, Afghanistan, which is small, overcrowded and understaffed. (U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Donald Watkins/Released)

100903-N-0696M-126. U.S. Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and U.S. Army Gen. David Petraeus, commander of International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), depart ISAF headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sept. 3, 2010. (DoD photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Chad J. McNeeley, U.S. Navy/Released)

100903-F-6655M-003. U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates, seated at left, and U.S. Army Lt. Gen. David Rodriguez, far right, deputy commander of the International Security Assistance Force Afghanistan, attend a meeting with Regional Command South personnel on Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, Sept. 3, 2010. (DoD photo by Master Sgt. Jerry Morrison, U.S. Air Force/Released)

100902-F-6655M-010. Afghan President Hamid Karzai, left, walks to a press conference with U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates at the Presidential Palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sept. 2, 2010. (DoD photo by Master Sgt. Jerry Morrison, U.S. Air Force/Released)

100902-F-4473M-001. U.S. Air Force 1st Lt. Katherine Roling, public affairs officer with the Ghazni Provincial Reconstruction Team, hands pens and papers out to Afghan reporters Sept. 2, 2010, at an iftar, a meal at sunset to break the fast during the month of Ramadan, at Forward Operating Base Ghazni, Afghanistan. (U.S. Air Force photo Tech. Sgt. J.T. May III/Released)

100902-F-9208L-153. Jim Morris, left rear, the U.S Department of State representative to Kapisa Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT), talks with Abdul Hakim Akhundzadah, right, the district governor of Tagab, Afghanistan, in the governor's office Sept. 2, 2010. The PRT performed missions throughout the province to interact and engage with Afghan leaders. (DoD photo by Tech. Sgt. Joe Laws, U.S. Air Force/Released)

100902-A-4584J-4485. French Army Col. Benoit Goisque, Task Force Bison commander, escorts International Security Assistance Force Commander Gen. David H. Petraeus to a conference room on Forward Operating Base Tora in eastern Afghanistan, where the colonel briefed the general on the state of affairs in Surobi District. The ISAF Commander visited French troops in Regional Command-East Sept. 2, where he received updates on operations and thanked the troops for their service. (Photo by U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Lorie Jewell) (Released)

100902-F-8920C-128. FORWARD OPERATING BASE BULLARD, Afghanistan -- Shah Joy District Police Chief Sardar Mohammed speaks to local elders during a shura near Forward Operating Base Bullard, Shah Joy District, Zabul Province, Sept. 2, 2010. Mohammed spoke about security in the area during the shura. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Nathanael Callon/Released)

Afghan soldiers and French soldiers from Task Force BISON conducting a search between Rodbar village and Bazhkel village during opération BUFFER II (between the 29th and the 31th Aug.), Uzbeen valley, Surobi district, Kabul Provence.

Afghan soldier keeps watch on the roof while French soldiers from Task Force BISON search a house during opération BUFFER II (between the 29th and the 31th Aug.), Uzbeen valley, Surobi district, Kabul Provence.

100831-F-1029W-003. Afghan contractors lay fresh asphalt on Section 3 of the main road running through the Panjshir Province. Provincial Reconstruction Team Panjshir and U.S. Agency for International Development teamed up to pave the main road in order to connect remote areas of Panjshir to the province. (Photo by U.S. Air Force 1st Lt. Holly Hess, PRT Panjshir Public Affairs)