You might like Left Right The future home of the Afghan Cash and Carry Superstore on the road between the foreign embassies and Kabul airport. Simon Norfolk 2011 A watchtower guarding a street of foreign embassies in central Kabul. For the British army these improvised fortifications are called ‘sangars’, although the term is Dari for ‘barricade’ and is one of the few words the British brought home form the Anglo- Simon Norfolk 2011 Entrance to the vast City Star Hall complex of wedding halls, on the new bypass out near Kabul Airport. Simon Norfolk 2011 The whole eastern side of Kabul, for miles along both sides of the Jalalabad Road is one huge logistics yard capable of supplying the foreign military and rapidly growing embassies with everything they might need from a single cup of coffee right through Simon Norfolk 2011 Kabul ‘Pizza Express’ restaurant behind the Kabul municipal bus depot. Simon Norfolk 2011 A view of Kabul city centre from Bala Burj. Simon Norfolk 2011 The Political Staff of the British Embassy. Simon Norfolk 2011 At a music school on Kabul, boys are taught the traditional Afghan instrument the rubab. Difficult to play, it is a skill which nearly became extinct due to the Taliban prohibition on secular music. Simon Norfolk 2011 Accommodation units, known as ‘pods’, for lower ranking diplomats of the British Embassy. Simon Norfolk 2011 The armoury of the British Embassy. The Embassy has a guard force of five hundred. Simon Norfolk 2011 The tennis court of the British Embassy. Simon Norfolk 2011 There are 16,000 US Marines aboard Camp Leatherneck spread over 1,600 acres. Empty shipping containers are used as storage, wind breaks or blast walls. In May 2010 a mysterious fire, that may have been sabotage, destroyed 9 acres of containers. It burned Simon Norfolk 2011
