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3 October 2010

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Afghanistan Wartime Women September 2010 Part 4

Afghanistan Wartime Women September 2010 Part 4
Australia's Prime Minister Julia Gillard (R) meets Corporal Craig Turnball and his explosives detection dog during her visit to Multinational Base Tarin Kowt in southern Afghanistan October 2, 2010. Gillard made a surprise visit to Afghanistan, her first overseas trip as Prime Minister. Picture taken October 2, 2010. Reuters	An Afghan health worker (R) administers polio vaccine to a child on the first day of a vaccination campaign in Kabul on October 3, 2010. A new three-day nationwide immunisation campaign against polio began on October 3 in a joint operation with the Ministry of Public Health, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organisation (WHO). Afghanistan is one of only of a handful of countries in the world that still has the crippling polio virus with new cases reported every year, most often in areas where insurgent threats mean vaccinators are unable to reach all children. Getty
U.S. Army medial staff from the 31st Combat Support Hospital transport an Afghani man from a MEDEVAC helicopter after he was shot by Marines during a morning firefight September 29, 2010 near Marja, Afghanistan. The hospital is responsible for treating wounded Afghani and Coalition forces as well as local nationals in Helmand Province. Getty	Afghan children live in a refugee camp in Karti Parwan district on October 1, 2010 in Kabul, Afghanistan. Since 2001 more than a million Afghan refugees who fleed to Pakistan and Iran returned back to the country, most of whom remain homeless. Getty
Parents Thomas and Janet Manion, sister Ryan Manion Borek, and niece Maggie Manion Borek of the late Marine 1st Lieutenant Travis Manion, who was killed while supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2007, drop roses at his grave site during a reinternment ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery on October 1, 2010 in Arlington, Virginia. Manion was originally buried in West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania. His family made a decision to relocate his remains after they found out his roommate and best friend from the Naval Academy Brendan Looney was one of the nine troops who killed in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan last week. The two buddies who were killed fighting for their country will be buried side-by-side in Arlington after Looney's funeral on Monday, October 4, 2010. Getty	Supporters of Afghan parliamentary election candidate Farkhunda Zahra Naderi (not pictured), daughter of religious Afghan Shia Ismaili Muslim leader Sayed Mansoor Naderi, watch during a campaign rally in Kabul on September 3, 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
Afghan girls cast shadows as they carry bags with fruits and vegetables from a heigh ground to the city on October 1, 2010 in Feyzabad, Afghanistan. Germany has more than 4,500 military forces in Afghanistan as part of the US-led International Security Assistance Force. Getty	Patrick McLeod, left, a classmate of U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Anthony Rosa is comforted by Molly Bartlett, center, as they wait for Rosa's remains pass by in South Burlington, Vt. , Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010. The remains of the U.S. Marine from Swanton, Vt. , killed in Afghanistan, returned to Vermont on Wednesday. At right is Rosa's former English teacher, Yvette Gottshal. AP

New York Times, 3 October 2010

101002-A-4584J-7809. Gen. David H. Petraeus introduces Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard to members of his staff during an Oct. 2 meeting at International Security Assistance Force headquarters that also included Australia's Chief of Defence Gen. Angus Houston and Ambassador to Afghanistan Paul Foley. Petraeus, commander of NATO and ISAF troops, briefed the prime minister on the progress of operations here. He also praised the performance of Australia's military serving alongside U.S. and other allied nations, telling Prime Minister Gillard she can be proud of her troops. Gillard is on her first overseas trip since being sworn in as Australia's first female prime minister in June. (Photo by U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Lorie Jewell) (Released)

100929-F-2507B-078. KABUL, Afghanistan - Gen. Ann Dunwoody, the commander of Army Materiel Command and the first female four-star general in U.S. military history, greets an Afghan military member during a women's roundtable event at the U.S. Embassy here. (ISAF photo by U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. LuCelia Ball) [Note two women uniformed Afghan officers at right.]

Kabul, Afghanistan (Sept. 29, 2010) Afghan uniformed policewomen practice marksmanship techniques at Kabul Military Training Center. U.S. Navy photo by Chief Petty Officer Brian Brannon

100928-N-5208T-001. Lt. Gen. James Bucknall, deputy commander of NATO and International Security Assistance Forces in Afghanistan, went on his first battle field circulation, Sept. 25-28. Bucknall visited Provisional Reconstruction Teams in the Afghan provinces of Konduz, Balkh, Faryhab, and Wardak. Through PRTs, ISAF supports reconstruction and development in Afghanistan, securing areas in which reconstruction work is conducted by other national and international actors. Currently, there are 26 PRTs operating through Afghanistan. (Photo by U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer Joshua Treadwell) (Released)

100927-N-5208T-002. Lt. Gen. James Bucknall, deputy commander of NATO and International Security Assistance Forces in Afghanistan, went on his first battle field circulation, Sept. 25-28. Bucknall visited Provisional Reconstruction Teams in the Afghan provinces of Konduz, Balkh, Faryhab, and Wardak. Through PRTs, ISAF supports reconstruction and development in Afghanistan, securing areas in which reconstruction work is conducted by other national and international actors. Currently, there are 26 PRTs operating through Afghanistan. (Photo by U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer Joshua Treadwell) (Released)

100927-F-7713A-020. Pam Fessenden, United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Team Leader, Office of Agriculture, speaks at the groundbreaking ceremony of the Farah Wholesale Market in Farah, Afghanistan, Sept. 27. The market, a joint Government Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (GIRoA) and USAID project, will cover 2,880 sq. Meters, will accommodate up to 80 traders and will facilitate the sale of a wide variety of fruits and vegetables throughout Afghanistan. USAID estimates an 8-10% annual increase in produce movement and volume as a result of the new market and its ability to hold more traders and goods than the current market. (ISAF photo by U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Rylan K. Albright)

100926-N-5208T-002. Lt. Gen. James Bucknall, deputy commander of NATO and International Security Assistance Forces in Afghanistan, went on his first battle field circulation, Sept. 25-28. Bucknall visited Provisional Reconstruction Teams in the Afghan provinces of Konduz, Balkh, Faryhab, and Wardak. Through PRTs, ISAF supports reconstruction and development in Afghanistan, securing areas in which reconstruction work is conducted by other national and international actors. Currently, there are 26 PRTs operating through Afghanistan. (Photo by U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer Joshua Treadwell) (Released)

Soldiers of the 10th Mountain, stationed at Camp Mike Spann, and Afghan National Army soldiers from Camp Shaheen, visited Aliabad school in the Nahr-e Shahi District, Afghanistan September 26, 2010, to deliver school supplies during a humanitarian mission. Before the supplies were distributed, several distinguished guests gave speeches about the future of Afghan education. Religious Cultural Advisor, Col. Ahmad Sha Ariawi, ANA 209th Corps, stated that it is the ANA’s responsibility to provide freedom and peace to the region so that Afghan children can pursue a meaningful education. The ceremony also included a blessing from an imam before participants placed the first foundation stones at the site where the school will undergo construction for an expansion. The 10th Mountain donated several chalk boards, writing paper and pencils.

100925-A-3603J-119. Afghanistan women and children are brought to a secure and safe location as a cordon and searched is conducted in the vllage of Bala in the Masamute Valley of Laghman province, Afghanistan, Sept. 25, 2010.

On September 22, 2010, a small group of U.S. Embassy employees and female military troops, all of whom played college soccer, brought a soccer clinic to a girls’ school in a remote area of Logar province. More than 50 girls came out to play ball, uninhibited by their headscarves and sandals. The soccer “field” was a walled off plot of land, mostly rocks and dirt, but it didn’t stop the girls from running, kicking, and laughing. The event evolved as a joint effort between the PRT, RSO, the military, the Political Section, and PAS. Participants were given soccer balls donated by the Houston Dynamo professional soccer team.

A village girl huddles near her home after an attack on Forward Operating Base Thunder, one of three bases insurgents attacked in eastern Afghanistan Sept. 24, 2010. One Afghan security contractor and five insurgents were killed when a squad-sized element of insurgents attacked three bases near Gardez, Paktya province. At least two others were injured. The attack began when insurgents opened fire on the FOB Goode (Gardez) entry control point with AK-47 rifles at about noon. One insurgent was killed and a truck belonging to a respected village elder was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade and set aflame in this initial attack.

The Sarco Abad management team from left to right: 19-year-old Arzoo, floor supervisor; Sharifa, manager; and Deputy Managing Director, 29-year-old Angela, September 23, 2010. Together, the team of junior businesswomen are striving to make the new Afghanistan a better place for all Afghans.

100921-A-8113L-006. Villagers in the town of Chalgor, Panjwa'i District, Kandahar Province, step outside their homes to take a look at operations being conducted by Afghan National Army Commandos and Soldiers from Special Operations Task Force -- South, Sept. 21, 2010. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Jesse LaMorte / Special Operations Task Force -- South).

While visiting the Maimaneh Women's Center, Capt. Maria Gregory, the Golf Company Commander, from 3rd Battalion, 6th Field Artillery, of the 10th Mountain Division's 1st Brigade Combat Team, shakes the hand of a local woman and introduces herself Sept. 17, 2010. Gregory and 1st Lt. Anna Ko, a maintenance control officer with G Company, brought computers, desks and chairs to the center.