You might like Left Right Wasteland at the back of shops used as stabling for draught horses. In the distance is the Bala Hissar citadel, now home to an Afghan army base and mooring for one of the American blimps that carry electronic surveillance gear and cameras. Simon Norfolk 2011 Historically, Kuchis were strongly pro-Taliban; feelings made more intense by being bombed by NATO off their traditional grazing lands in Helmand. They are allowed to set up camp here on Kabul’s periphery only because it is below a large, new Afghan Army Simon Norfolk 2011 A de-mining team from the Mine Detection Centre in Kabul with a member of the German Police who is mentoring them. Simon Norfolk 2011 The crew and ground staff of the new independent operator, ‘Safi Airways’. Simon Norfolk 2011 Afghan Police being trained by US Marines, Camp Leatherneck. Simon Norfolk 2011 Afghan police trainees being taken to the firing ranges by US Marines, Camp Leatherneck, Helmand. Simon Norfolk 2011 Accommodation units, known as ‘pods’, for lower ranking diplomats of the British Embassy. Simon Norfolk 2011 Watchtowers on the perimeter of Camp Bastion. Simon Norfolk 2011 A shaded rest area built by helicoptor re-fuelling crews at Camp Bastion. Simon Norfolk 2011 Security lights and communications antennae at Camp Leatherneck. Simon Norfolk 2011 The seemingly endless number of helicopter pads and hangars at Camp Bastion. 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
