Afghanistan Wartime Architecture April 2010
Part 4
 

An Afghan boy removes brick from a wall of a building damaged in civil war in Kabul, Afghanistan Friday, April 30, 2010. Thousands of buildings in Afghanistan were damaged during Russian occupation and civil war, most of them have been cleared and rebuild. AP

U.S. Army Capt. Casey Thoreen, center, of Seattle, Wash. , Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry Regiment, 5th Stryker Brigade, shakes hands with district leader Obaidullah Bawari, left, after attending a shura , Thursday, April 29, 2010 in the Maiwand district of Afghanistan's Kandahar province. To the locals, he is the "King of Maiwand" district testimony to the fact that without the resources the young captain and others like him provide, local government in much of insurgency-ravaged southern Afghanistan could not function at all. AP

Afghan protesters burn tires and block a main road in Jalalabad April 29, 2010. U.S. troops raided the home of a female member of the Afghan parliament and killed a neighbour who was one of her relatives, the MP said on Thursday, an incident that sparked angry protests in the east. A spokesman for foreign forces in Afghanistan said Western and Afghan troops had raided a house in the area and shot dead an armed man but was not able to comment on whether the house belonged to a member of parliament. Scores of angry residents brought the dead man's body to a main road on Thursday, chanting anti-American and anti-government slogans. Reuters

In this April 29, 2010 photo, Sher Mohammed, right center, talks with U.S. Army Capt. Casey Thoreen, left center, of Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion 1st Infantry Regiment of the 5th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, outside the Maiwand district center, in Afghanistan's Kandahar province. Mohammed's 25-year-old brother was shot and killed in mid-March by a private Afghan security company escorting a NATO convoy. Reckless behavior by private Afghan security companies protecting NATO supply convoys in southern Kandahar province is hindering coalition efforts to build local support ahead of this summer's planned offensive in the area, say U.S. and Afghan officials. AP

An Afghan man enjoys a sunny day at a swimming pool in Kabul on April 28, 2010. Afghanistan has commemorated the 1992 toppling of a Soviet-backed regime, which led to bloody civil war and arguably to the rise of the Taliban, as the capital Kabul went under security lockdown. Helicopter gunships clattered overhead as the Afghan army staged a 21-gun salute at a sports stadium in central Kabul, used as a public execution ground by the 1996-2001 Taliban regime that emerged from the devastating civil war. Getty

Afghan men enjoy a sunny day at a swimming pool in Kabul on April 28, 2010. Afghanistan has commemorated the 1992 toppling of a Soviet-backed regime, which led to bloody civil war and arguably to the rise of the Taliban, as the capital Kabul went under security lockdown. Helicopter gunships clattered overhead as the Afghan army staged a 21-gun salute at a sports stadium in central Kabul, used as a public execution ground by the 1996-2001 Taliban regime that emerged from the devastating civil war. Getty

Afghan National Police take a break for a late morning tea, Wednesday, April 28, 2010 at their post in the city of Hutal in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan. AP

An Afghan woman passes by a shop in Farah city, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, April 28, 2010. AP

To go with Afghanistan-unrest-art-politics-graffiti,FEATURE by Lynne O'Donnell Afghan men walk past a wall spray-painted with grafitti of military hardware in Kabul on April 25, 2010. On walls around Afghanistan's scrappy capital, where million-dollar mansions line rutted, unmade roads, anonymous grafitti artists are daubing their disapproving take on the devastating cost of war. Getty

Afghan women walk past houses destroyed during the civil war in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, April 27, 2010. AP

U.S. Army Spc. Albert Rosario of Guam keeps watch on civilian movements with his scope while manning an observation post in the city of Hutal, Wednesday, April 28, 2010 in the Kandahar Province of Afghanistan. AP

In this April 28, 2010 photo, Sher Mohammed, left, waits outside the Maiwand district center with other Afghan men after holding a shura with the district leader, in Afghanistan's Kandahar province. Mohammed's 25-year-old brother was shot and killed in mid-March by a private Afghan security company escorting a NATO convoy. Reckless behavior by private Afghan security companies protecting NATO supply convoys in southern Kandahar province is hindering coalition efforts to build local support ahead of this summer's planned offensive in the area, say U.S. and Afghan officials. AP

Daulat Khan, an internally displaced Afghan boy looks out from a glass window of a shanty dwelling, in a refugee camp in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, April 27, 2010. According to UNHCR some 2.7 million registered Afghans refugees still remain in Pakistan and Iran. AP

Marziya, an internally displaced Afghan girl looks out from a mesh window of a shanty dwelling, in a refugee camp in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, April 27, 2010. According to UNHCR some 2.7 million registered Afghans refugees still remain in Pakistan and Iran. AP

A scene of Afghanistan's war against the former Soviet Union's army is portrayed in a diorama in People's Museum, or Manzar-e Jahad in Herat April 11, 2010. The bloodied corpses of Soviet soldiers slumped over an armoured tank. Burqa-clad Afghan women on a roof, cheering on fighters as helicopters burn in the sky above their heads. These are scenes from a panoramic pastiche of Afghanistan's war against the former Soviet Union's invading army, brought to life by plaster of Paris figures for the centrepiece of the country's first museum dedicated to the Mujahideen. Reuters

A scene of Afghanistan's war against the former Soviet Union's army is portrayed in a diorama in People's Museum, or Manzar-e Jahad, in Herat April 11, 2010. The bloodied corpses of Soviet soldiers slumped over an armoured tank. Burqa-clad Afghan women on a roof, cheering on fighters as helicopters burn in the sky above their heads. These are scenes from a panoramic pastiche of Afghanistan's war against the former Soviet Union's invading army, brought to life by plaster of Paris figures for the centrepiece of the country's first museum dedicated to the Mujahideen. Reuters

An Afghan man looks at an artillery weapon at People's Museum, or Manzar-e Jahad, in Herat April 11, 2010. The bloodied corpses of Soviet soldiers slumped over an armoured tank. Burqa-clad Afghan women on a roof, cheering on fighters as helicopters burn in the sky above their heads. These are scenes from a panoramic pastiche of Afghanistan's war against the former Soviet Union's invading army, brought to life by plaster of Paris figures for the centrepiece of the country's first museum dedicated to the Mujahideen. pict-ure taken April 11, 2010. Reuters

To go with Afghanistan-unrest-art-politics-graffiti,FEATURE by Lynne O'Donnell A man walks by a wall spray-painted with grafitti of poppy flowers in Kabul on April 25, 2010. On walls around Afghanistan's scrappy capital, where million-dollar mansions line rutted, unmade roads, anonymous grafitti artists are daubing their disapproving take on the devastating cost of war. Getty