Afghanistan Wartime Architecture February 2010
Part 1
 

An elderly Afghan woman walks in a market with a basket on her head in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010. AP

Afghan police officers and government officials stand near food items to be distributed to the villagers, in Marjah, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010. AP

Afghan police investigate the site of a blast in Lashkar Gah city of Helmand province February 23, 2010. A remote-controlled bomb killed at least seven Afghan civilians and wounded 14 in front of a government building in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday, a government official said. Reuters

Afghan police investigate the site of a blast in Lashkar Gah city of Helmand province February 23, 2010. A remote-controlled bomb killed at least seven Afghan civilians and wounded 14 in front of a government building in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday, a government official said. Reuters

Afghans take part in a drawing competition during a mine awareness ceremony organized by the Mine Action Coordination Centre of Afghanistan (MACCA) in Kabul February 23, 2010. Reuters

Afghan children attend a mine awareness class organized by the Mine Action Coordination Centre of Afghanistan (MACCA) in Kabul February 23, 2010. Reuters

An Afghan man feed pigeons outside a mosque in a market in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Feb. 22, 2010. A NATO air strike in Afghanistan killed as many as 33 civilians, triggering a government protest over noncombatant deaths that undermine a stepped-up offensive to defeat Taliban insurgents. AP

A young Afghan boy covers his head with his jacket at a market as it rains in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Feb. 22, 2010. A NATO air strike in Afghanistan killed as many as 33 civilians, triggering a government protest over noncombatant deaths that undermine a stepped-up offensive to defeat Taliban insurgents. AP

A U.S. soldier of the 1st Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment, 5th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, searches for enemy presence as father Carl Subler, U.S. Cpt. Chaplain from Versailles, Ohio celebrates a mass service in an outpost in the Badula Qulp area, West of Lashkar Gah in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, Sunday, Feb. 21, 2010. AP

U.S. soldiers of the 1st Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment, 5th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, kneel as father Carl Subler, U.S. Cpt. Chaplain from Versailles, Ohio celebrates a mass service in an outpost in the Badula Qulp area, West of Lashkar Gah in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, Sunday, Feb. 21, 2010. AP

U.S. Marines from Bravo Company of the 1st Battalion, 6th Marines watch over the area during an operation in Marjah, Helmand province, February 19, 2010. NATO and Afghan troops have hit pockets of stiff resistance in Marjah, the Taliban's main stronghold in southern Afghanistan, and may need another month to fully secure the area, a NATO commander said on Thursday. Reuters

A U.S. soldier of the 1st Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment, 5th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, looks into a building 's window during a dismounted patrol in the Badula Qulp area, West of Lashkar Gah in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, Friday, Feb. 19, 2010. AP

U.S. Marines from Bravo Company of the 1st Battalion, 6th Marines look for a Taliban sniper from inside a cotton workshop in Marjah, Helmand province, February 19, 2010. NATO and Afghan troops have hit pockets of stiff resistance in Marjah, the Taliban's main stronghold in southern Afghanistan, and may need another month to fully secure the area, a NATO commander said on Thursday. Reuters

U.S. Marines gear up early in the morning in Marjah, Helmand province, February 19, 2010. NATO and Afghan troops have hit pockets of stiff resistance in Marjah, the Taliban's main stronghold in southern Afghanistan, and may need another month to fully secure the area, a NATO commander said on Thursday. Reuters

USAF Tech. Sgt. Efren D. Lopez,4th Combat Camera Squadron, 43, from Petaca , Guatemala, attached to 1st Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment, 5th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, arranges his sleeping place at an U.S. Army outpost in an abandoned mudhouse in the Badula Qulp area, west of Lashkar Gah in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, Thursday, Feb. 18, 2010.

U.S. Army Capt. Michael Kovalsky of Fords, N.J. , 26, of the 1st Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment of the 5th Stryker Brigade, points at a drawn image of an American Chinook helicopter inside an abandoned Taliban compound in the Badula Qulp area, west of Lashkar Gah in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2010.

U.S. Marines with NATO forces put barbed wires on top of the protective walls around a newly setup joint Afghan National Army and NATO military base in north of Marjah city of Helmand province Afghanistan , Thursday Feb. 18, 2010.

An Afghan soldier carries a child and escorts his family through a market in Marjah in Helmand province, south Afghanistan February 18, 2010. The family's home was destroyed during a major NATO operation on Marjah the day before. Reuters

A local tea shop is seen reflected in a mirror in Kabul, Afghanistan on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2010. AP

U.S. Soldiers with 4th Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment meet with an Afghan National Army (ANA) soldier at an ANA checkpoint in Helmand province, Afghanistan, Feb. 15, 2010. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Christine Jones/Released). Date Posted: 2/17/2010