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Projects and Stories: Afghanistan, October 2006

Afghanistan Oct. 2006 

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  • Afghanistan Five Years Later-Past Battles-A bullet and shrapnal riddled front gate of a school serves as a reminder of past battles in Kabul.  Here a US Army officer photographs the school as possible reconstruction project.
  • Afghanistan Five Years Later-Hearts and Minds-To win hearts and minds of locals the U.S. Army built this $87,000 mosque outside Kabul at the request of the village elder.  The military hopes the mosque will sway religous and community leaders to have more positive view of the American's presence in their county.
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  • Five years after the United States decleared war on Afghanistan the country has made progress while other things remain unchanged.  Instablity in the southern part of the country, corruption and warlords lammenting their new diminished roles in society threaten to again destablize the Afghanistan. The Americans have spent billions to prop the county but the battle in Iraq is draining attention, money and troops away from Afghanistan.-------------------------Afghanistan Five Years Later-Scales--Simple scales are still in use during market day as life continues as it has for a thousand of years in Dasht'e Qal'eh in Northeastern Afghanistan.  The relative stablity of the last five years have helped to grow the size of the markets the variety of items available.
  • Afghanistan Five Years Later-Afghan National Army--Members of the Afghan National Army gather outside their barracks in Kandahar. Training the Afghan Army to stand on its own is a priority for United States but desertion and retention plague the Afghan Army.
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  • Afghanistan Five Years Later-Health Care--A family brings their child to be treated at Sina District Hospital in northeastern Afghanistan. Before the war the hospital was only a tiny, poorly supplied clinic, now an NGO has build a large well supplied hospital that is a regional hub for healthcare.
  • Afghanistan Five Years Later-Down Time-Members of the Missouri National Guard relax during some down time from their mission of training of the Afghan National Army in Kandahar.  The Americans fight side by side with Afghans but sleep and live on their own base seperate from the Afghans.
  • Afghanistan Five Years Later-Power--A guard performs his prayers bathed in the glow of an electric light in  Dasht-e Qal'eh, a small town in northestern Afghanistan.  While the town only receives three hours of power a night, five years ago there was none.
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