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  • Alexander The Great invasion route to Kandahar <br />
Sep 09, 2009 - Golestan, Farah Province, Afghanistan - US Marines from the 2nd MEB of the 2/3 Marines patrol the mountains of the Black Pass after fighting the previous night. This is located by the Buji Bast Pass (aka Bhuji Bast) and "Fighting Mountain" aka "Kohe Tengay" which in Pashto means "Three Kings"  in Golestan, Farah Province, where US Marines have been deadlocked in a bitter counterinsurgency campaign and conflict with insurgents using mainly Improvise Explosive Devices (IED's).<br />
(© Louie Palu/Agence VU)
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  • Alexander The Great invasion route to Kandahar <br />
Sep 10, 2009 - Golestan, Farah Province, Afghanistan - A US Marine from the 2nd MEB of the 2/3 Marines searches holes dug into the ground which appear to be bunker systems during a patrol after sporadic fighting in the village of Gund located in a hostile region between the Black Pass, Buji Bast Pass (aka Bhuji Bast) and "Fighting Mountain" aka "Kohe Tengay" which in Pashto means "Three Kings"  in Golestan, Farah Province, where US Marines have been deadlocked in a bitter counterinsurgency campaign and conflict with insurgents using mainly Improvise Explosive Devices (IED's).<br />
(© Louie Palu/Agence VU)
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  • Alexander The Great invasion route to Kandahar <br />
Sep 10, 2009 - Golestan, Farah Province, Afghanistan - A US Marine from the 2nd MEB of the 2/3 Marines hands his interpreter (aka a linguist) a hand gun for his own self-defense during a patrol after sporadic fighting in the village of Gund located in a hostile region between the Black Pass, Buji Bast Pass (aka Bhuji Bast) and "Fighting Mountain" aka "Kohe Tengay" which in Pashto means "Three Kings"  in Golestan, Farah Province, where US Marines have been deadlocked in a bitter counterinsurgency campaign and conflict with insurgents using mainly Improvise Explosive Devices (IED's)..(Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press)
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  • Exhausted Canadian infantry from the Vandoos (R22R) Bravo Company sleeping  in a civilian compound (home) occupied during the second of three days of fighting before continuing an operation to clear the area of insurgents in the Siah Choy area of Zhari District in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan. Zhari District (aka Zharey) located west of Kandahar City has long been an insurgent stronghold and the birthplace of the Taliban movement lead by Mullah Mohammad Omar in the 1990's. Cpl. Christian Bobbitt (foreground 2nd from left) age 23 and Sapper Matthieu Allard (rear far right) age 21 were killed by an IED about a month after this operation.
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  • A rooster standing on the roof of an Afghan Army (ANA) truck at a Canadian Forward Operating Base (FOB) located in the Sperwan area of Panjway (Panjwai) District located west of Kandahar City, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan. Afghan soldiers have numerous pets and farm animals in their areas of most FOB's in this region.
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  • Afghan Army (ANA) soldiers exercising after prayer in their area at a Canadian Forward Operating Base (FOB) located in the Sperwan area of Panjway (Panjwai) District located west of Kandahar City, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan.
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  • Jul 08, 2009 - Kandahar Province, Afghanistan - An Afghan boy leads a flock of sheep through a village in the Pashmul area in the early morning hours. Due to the extreme poverty many children like this must work and have little time to attend school. Many boys at a minimum study at a religious school and that becomes the extent of their education, which is based on the Koran..(Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press)
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  • Jun 30, 2009 - Siah Choy, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan - US infantry  take cover behind a mud wall on the third of three days of fighting in the Siah Choy area of Zhari District in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan. Zhari District (aka Zharey) located west of Kandahar City has long been an insurgent stronghold and the birthplace of the Taliban movement lead by MULLAH MOHAMMAD OMAR in the 1990's..(Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press)
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  • Alexander The Great invasion route to Kandahar <br />
Sep 10, 2009 - Golestan, Farah Province, Afghanistan - A Chinook helicopter MEDEVACS injured US Marines after their vehicle hit a roadside bomb by the Buji Bast Pass (aka Bhuji Bast) in Golestan, Farah Province. US Marines from the 2nd MEB of the 2/3 Marines have been deadlocked in a bitter counterinsurgency campaign and conflict with insurgents using mainly Improvise Explosive Devices (IED's).
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  • Alexander The Great invasion route to Kandahar <br />
Sep 11, 2009 - Golestan, Farah Province, Afghanistan - US Marines from the 2nd MEB of the 2/3 Marines Fox Company prepare to fight their way out of a valley in the Buji Bast Pass (aka Bhuji Bast) in Golestan, Farah Province, after several days of insurgent attacks, ambushes and roadside bombs. US Marines have been deadlocked in a bitter counterinsurgency campaign and conflict with insurgents using mainly Improvise Explosive Devices (IED's)..(Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press)
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  • Alexander The Great invasion route to Kandahar <br />
Sep 11, 2009 - Golestan, Farah Province, Afghanistan - US Marines from the 2nd MEB of the 2/3 Marines Fox Company try to find their way out of a valley littered with land mines and roadside bombs in the Buji Bast Pass (aka Bhuji Bast) in Golestan, Farah Province, after several days of insurgent attacks, ambushes and roadside bombs. US Marines have been deadlocked in a bitter counterinsurgency campaign and conflict with insurgents using mainly Improvise Explosive Devices (IED's)..(Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press)
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  • Aug 01, 2009 - Kandahar, Afghanistan - Afghan soldiers (ANA) sit on sand bags looking out over the Sperwan area from their Forward Operating Base just west of Kandahar City in Panjwai District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan. .(Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press)
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  • A dejected Afghan boy stands outside his home while Canadian and US soldiers with Afghan Police search his compound (home) during an operation designed to disrupt insurgent activity in the Pashmul area of Zhari District in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
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  • Jun 13, 2009 - Howz e Madad, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan - Canadian infantry search a school that was abandoned by civilians after threats from Taliban insurgents in Howz e Madad in Zhari (aka Zharey) District. Now empty, laden with land mines and booby traps few venture into the school. The school was built in 2001 with the aid of a relief organization when there were hopes of reconstruction in Afghanistan. Now schools have become frequent targets of a campaign of terror by insurgents in effort to discredit and destabilize any effort by the international community and the Afghan government to show progress in the country. This school is located only a short distance from where Mullah Mohammed Omar gave birth to the Taliban movement. (Credit Image: © Louie Palu/louie Palu/ZUMA Press)
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  • Canadian soldiers search for roadside bombs (IED's) on a path as they question young men by a mud wall in the impoverished farming village of Chalgower in Panjwaii District, Kandahar, Afghanistan. Over the summer a brutal insurgency took hold in Chalgower and in the surrounding villages resulting in injury and death to numerous civilians, insurgents and soldiers without completely expelling the insurgents influence in the area. (Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press/The Alexia Foundation).June 20, 2010.Photograph taken on film exact date estimated and not known.....
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  • A Canadian soldier walks up a narraow path between mud walls on what is known as "Route Nightmare" in a village in Panjwaii District, Kandahar, Afghanistan. The mud walls and unpaved paths and roads due to lack of development and reconstruction in almost all of the impoverished rural areas of Kandahar allows for the easy planting of land mines and road side bombs by insurgents. (Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press/The Alexia Foundation).June 20, 2010.Photograph taken on film exact date estimated and not known.....
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  • Canadian Soldiers lay in the heat taking cover behind a wall as engineers destroy multiple IED's (improvised explosive devices) set by insurgents targeting them during a multiple day operation aimed at attempting to clear the village of Chalgower in Panjwaii District, Kandahar, Afghanistan. Following this operation a brutal insurgency took hold in Chalgower and in the surrounding villages resulting in injury and death to numerous civilians, insurgents and soldiers without completely expelling the insurgents influence in the area. (Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press/The Alexia Foundation).June 20, 2010.Photograph taken on film exact date estimated and not known.
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  • A Canadian soldier stands watch beside a Taliban ambush point where farmers trees were blasted after insurgents continually used the tree line to attack a Canadian combat outpost in the village of Nakhonay in Panjwaii District, Kandahar, Afghanistan. Nakhonay has long been the location of the Taliban's shadow government for the province of Kandahar. (Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press/The Alexia Foundation).July 15, 2010.Photograph taken on film exact date estimated and not known.....
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  • US soldiers prepare to search a karez in Maywand (Maiwand) District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan. A karez is an underwater irrigation canal system that is widely used throughout Kandahar to irrigate the many lush green zones and farmland Kandahar is best known for.(Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press/The Alexia Foundation).August 25, 2010.Photograph taken on film exact date estimated and not known.....
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  • Young boys with wheelbarrows sit in front of shops selling produce in the Afghan border town of Wesh in Spin Boldak District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan.  As a buslting border town this border crossing connected to Kandahar City via Highway 4 sees millions of dollars of trade pass through it's streets most of which goes to rich warlords and corrupt government officials. These boys with the wheelbarrows can be hired to move goods and luggage cheaply in small amounts across the border with no passport required..(Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press/The Alexia Foundation).August 25, 2010.Photograph taken on film exact date estimated and not known.....
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  • Afghan children in Maiwand District, in Kandahar Afghanistan are seen on the narrow pathways in their village between compounds they live in which are all made of mud. The majority of all homes in Afghanistan are made of mud particularily in the rural regions. (Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press/The Alexia Foundation).August 25, 2010.Photograph taken on film exact date estimated and not known.....
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  • Young boys memorize the Qur'an (Koran) and bob their heads back and forth as they recite passages in Arabic in a Madrasah (Madrassa), which means school in Arabic. In the west a Madrasah usually refers to an Islamic religious school often misunderstood as a place that produces religious extrememists. A Madrasah is  a place where mostly young men go to learn the Qur'an, many go on to become Imam's which are spiritual leaders in mosques and communities. (Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press/The Alexia Foundation).Sept. 15, 2010.Photograph taken on film exact date estimated and not known.....
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  • Rickshaws sit parked under a canopy in downtown Kandahar City, Kandahar, Afghanistan. The rickshaws are a common form of cheap transport for hire as taxi's for Kandahari's in place of a more expensive traditional four wheeled automobiles. (Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press/The Alexia Foundation).Sept. 15, 2010.Photograph taken on film exact date estimated and not known.....
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  • Afghan children swim, bath and play in a canal in the heart of Kandahar City, Afghanistan. Most residents of Kandahar have no runing water and rely on canals and wells for their water needs. Many residents in Kandahar have very little access to basic utilities as the infrastructure of the city has collapsed under the weight of years of conflict and poverty. (Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press/The Alexia Foundation).Sept. 15, 2010.Photograph taken on film exact date estimated and not known.....
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  • An Afghan man sleeps by the final check point manned by Afghan Border Police (ABP) by the border between the city of Chaman, Pakistan and Wesh, Afghanistan located in Spin Boldak District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan. The route through Spin Boldak is a significant ancient trade route and one of the most significant economic coorridors in the country as it leads south to the Port of Karachi. This contraversial modern border was created in 1893 by the British Empire and reflects what is known as the Durand Line which split the ethnic Pashtun Lands. (Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press/The Alexia Foundation).....
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  • Afghan boys play on swings in Dand District South of Kandahar City, Afghanistan. In 2009 this district teetered on the verge of collapse as insurgents operated freely intimidating and terrorizing the local population and government officials. Although it is not completely secure, a long term counterinsurgency (COIN) operation implemented by Canadians turned the area around. (Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press/The Alexia Foundation).....
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  • Flying over the harsh landscape of Panjwaii (Panjwa'i) District south of Kandahar City, Afghanistan. The harsh landscape of Kandahar has made living and fighting in this region more difficult than in almost any other place in the world. (Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press/The Alexia Foundation).....
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  • Afghans bake bread aka Nan-e Afghani in a bakery in Kandahar City, Afghanistan. This oval shaped bread is baked in a tandoor, which is a cyndrical clay oven. Bread is a staple food for all Afghans and the center piece of each meal. (Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press/The Alexia Foundation).....
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  • A woman in a burqa walks amongst vendors stalls in one of the many bazaars in the sprawl of Kandahar City, Afghanistan. Kandahar City is the second largest city in the country and one of the main economic engines of the country. (Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press/The Alexia Foundation).....
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  • Flying over the agricultural green zone of Panjwaii (Panjwa'i) District south of Kandahar City, Afghanistan west towards Maywand Districts Band e Timur running along the Arghandab River. The harsh landscape of Kandahar has made living and fighting in this region more difficult than in almost any other place in the world. (Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press/The Alexia Foundation)....
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  • Flying over the harsh landscape of Kandahar Province somewhere between Spin Boldak District and Kandahar City, Afghanistan. The harsh landscape of Kandahar has made living and fighting in this region more difficult than in almost any other place in the world. (Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press/The Alexia Foundation).....
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  • Afghan men stroll by shops in a bazaar in Kandahar City. Many small retail businesses such as this have grown and spread throughout the city since the end of the civil war and the end of the Taliban regime. However many basic needs such as electricity and running water have failed to materialize for the citizens of Kandahar. (Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press/The Alexia Foundation).....
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  • Afghan menride a bike and push a cart on one of the main roads on the east end of Kandahar City in District 4 passing shops on the roadside. Kandahar City is zoned into 10 districts with Highway 1 cutting straight East West through the middle of it connecting Kabul to Herat, with roads to Uruzgan and south to the key border crossing of Spin Boldak. (Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press/The Alexia Foundation).....
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  • An Afghan prison guard stands watch as prisoners in the infamous Sarpoza prison look out past the bars of their cell. This prison is the largest facility of it's kind in the south and has criminal and political wings to separate insurgents from common criminals. In 2008 the Taliban launched a spectacular attack on the prison breaching the walls with a bombing, freeing hundreds of criminals and insurgents. (Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press/The Alexia Foundation).....
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  • Shop keepers in Kandahar City nap on a rug outside their vegetable stand containing melons, tomatoes, onions and okra in a bazaar in Kandahar City, Afghanistan. MOst of this produce is grown in the surrounding farming districts around Kandahar City. (Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press/The Alexia Foundation).....
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  • Women in burqas seen by the road side in Kandahar City, Afghanistan. Despite all the claimed advances for Afghans over the years, women seem to always benefit the least. Most women keep themselves covered up with the repressive burqa for fear of reprisals from men and do not wear the burqa by their own choice as a cultural manner of dressing. (Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press/The Alexia Foundation).....
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  • The main road to the Pakistan border and Durrand Line in the Afghan border town of Wesh in Spin Boldak District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan. The Durrand Line named after a British cartographer was set by the British in 1894 dividing the Pashtun lands with a border most Pastun's do not recognize. The dominant ethnicity of Kandahar are Pashtun's. (Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press/The Alexia Foundation).....
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  • Afghan men of mainly of Pashtun ethnicity gather at a busy animal market in the largest town in Maiwand District, Kandahar, Afghanistan.  Animal husbandry is one of several of the local forms of argicultural practice in the region and significant part of the local economy. (Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press/The Alexia Foundation).....
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  • Kandahari's see in downtown Kandahar City from inside a taxi cab in Kandahar, Afghanistan. (Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press/The Alexia Foundation).....
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  • Seen from an Afghan civilians automobile, a heavily armed US armored vehicle rumbles down the main highway through Kandahar City, Afghanistan. Due to the violence armored vehicles have become a necessity for US military personel. However they also alienate Afghan civilians from soldiers and  dominate the roads in Kandahar City as every NATO convoy going west must travel through the city angering and frustrating Kandahari's. (Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press/The Alexia Foundation).....
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  • The skeletons of stripped vehicles sit in a laneway behind mudwalled buildings in the city of Wesh, Spin Boldak District, Kandahar, Afghanistan. Anything and everything has value in Afghanistan and is sold, traded, reused and or transformed into something of use.(Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press/The Alexia Foundation).....
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  • An abandoned Toyota automobile by a grapefield suspected of being booby trapped by insurgents in the Sperwan area of Panjwaii District, Kandahar, Afghanistan. (Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press/The Alexia Foundation).....
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  • One of several irrigation ditches constructed by Afghan villagers to bring running water into their community from a larger nearby water source in Maiwand District, Kandahar, Afghanistan. This is the only manner rural Afghans can bring running water into their communities and many of these irrigation ditches can be centuries old. (Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press/The Alexia Foundation).....
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  • US soldiers patrolling down a path in a small rural farming village in Maiwand District, Kandahar, Afghanistan following up on Afghan civilian reports on insurgent activity. (Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press/The Alexia Foundation).....
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  • Jun 13, 2009 - Howz e Madad, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan -  Afghan farmers ride on the back of a tractor after a day of working in the fields in the Howz e Madad in Zhari (aka Zharey) District in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan. This area just west of Kandahar City is considered a green zone with huge areas of agricultural activity in vicinity to the Arghandab River. The complex irrigation system which could double if improved is tied to the Dahla Dam which is a major reconstruction project funded by the Canadian government..(Credit Image: © Louie Palu/louie Palu/ZUMA Press)
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  • Aug 8, 2009 - Panjway District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan - A hilltop graveyard in the Adamzai and Khenjakak area of Panjway (aka Pajwaii) in a rural area on the outer rim of Kandahar City, Afghanistan. According to the local Afghan Police (ANP) the Taliban holds a high court here where anyone opposed to Taliban rule including Afghan Police are judged and executed by hanging from the trees. Recently the local school's principal and several elders were killed by the Taliban, according to local civilians and the school was subsequently ordered closed as insurgents exerted their control over the area..(Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press)
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  • Aug 19, 2009 - Panjway District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan - An Afghan Police officer (ANP) is seen in a Police Sub Station (PSS) with pet birds in the Panjway (aka Pajwaii) by the New District Center (NDC) just past Bazzar-e-Panjway  just west of Kandahar City, Afghanistan. .(Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press)
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  • Aug 21, 2009 - Kandahar City, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan - Corroded and abandoned Russian T-62 series tanks in a Russian military vehicle graveyard located in the Afghan Army (ANA) 2 Corp area in Kandahar City, Afghanistan. The Afghan landscape is littered with the remains of Russian military vehicles after the decade long war with the Soviets in the 1980's resulted in them withdrawing in defeat fueling the legend that Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires..(Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press)
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  • Aug 21, 2009 - Kandahar City, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan - A corroded and abandoned Russian artillery piece in a Russian military vehicle graveyard located in the Afghan Army (ANA) 2 Corp area in Kandahar City, Afghanistan. The Afghan landscape is littered with the remains of Russian military vehicles after the decade long war with the Soviets in the 1980's resulted in them withdrawing in defeat fueling the legend that Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires..(Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press)
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  • Aug 21, 2009 - Kandahar City, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan - Afghan children play amongst corroded and abandoned Russian military vehicles and weapon systems in a Russian military vehicle graveyard located in the Afghan Army (ANA) 2 Corp area in Kandahar City, Afghanistan. The Afghan landscape is littered with the remains of Russian military vehicles after the decade long war with the Soviets in the 1980's resulted in them withdrawing in defeat fueling the legend that Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires..(Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press)
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  • Aug 19, 2009 - Panjway District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan - A Canadian armored vehicle is seen passing Soldiers from the Afghan Army  in Bazzar-e-Panjway in Panjway (aka Pajwaii) District just west of Kandahar City, Afghanistan just two days after the election..(Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press)
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  • Alexander The Great invasion route to Kandahar <br />
Sep 11, 2009 - Golestan District, Farah Province, Afghanistan -  The sunsets behind the Black Pass where Fox Company of the US Marines from the 2nd MEB of the 2/3 Marines after sporadic fighting in near the village of Gund located in a hostile region and IED corridor between the Black Pass, Buji Bast Pass (aka Bhuji Bast) and "Fighting Mountain" aka "Kohe Tengay" which in Pashto means "Three Kings"  in Golestan, Farah Province, where US Marines have been deadlocked in a bitter counterinsurgency campaign and conflict with insurgents using mainly Improvise Explosive Devices (IED's)..(Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press)
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  • Afghan Police (ANP) kill a sheep by cutting it's throat the night before an operation in the Adamzai and Khenjakak area of Panjway (aka Pajwaii) in a rural area on the outer rim of Kandahar City, Afghanistan. Lamb is a delicacy in Afghanistan and very expensive for the avergae Afghan.
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  • Jul 09, 2009 - Zhari District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan - Afghan civilians sit outside their homes and on a bridge in the center of one of several villages that sit along irrigation canals in the Pashmul area of Zhari District in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Numerous irrigation canals such as this get their water from the Arghandab River which have been greatly damaged by years of disrepair of the water system, Dala Dam due to the conflict. The Arghandab, Panjwai and Zahri Districts outside Kandahar City are major green agricultural zones..(Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press)
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  • Jun 12, 2009 - Kandahar Province, Afghanistan - Afghan troops socialize over tea before evening prayer in their forward operating base after a day of fighting in the village of Howz E Madad west of Kandahar City, Afghanistan..(Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press)
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  • Sep 17, 2009 - Kandahar, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan - A US Air Force Reaper (Drone) which is an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)seen in a secret location at an air base in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan loaded with Hellfire missiles and guided 500 lb bombs. The Reaper is a hunter-killer UAV and is a larger and newer aircraft than it's predecessor known as a Predator. These aircraft are frequently used to cover Canadian Operations in Kandahar.Years ago this aircraft was originally used for surveillance and eventually was designed to carry weapons systems as it does now. This frequently used aircraft has become a major part of the strategy to destroy militants around Afghanistan and the border regions of Pakistan.  Reporters often refer to these aircraft as "Drones"..(Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press).
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  • Sep 20, 2009 - Kandahar Province, Afghanistan - Lumps of dirt and rocks painted white sit as markers on land mines in Kandahar province, Afghanistan. After decades of war and continuous de-mining efforts, millions of land mines exist throughout the country constantly claiming victims. Insurgents have been known to dig up old land mines and place them in areas where NATO troops operate and also use old land mines to build improvised explosive devices (IED's) claiming the lives of western troops and Afghan civilians..(Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press)
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  • Jul 13, 2009 - Zhari District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan - A poor Afghan family packing their belongings in a truck as they prepare to move elsewhere due to lack of work in Zhari District, west of Kandahar City in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan. One of the longest ongoing problems in the country is the high unemployment, poverty and lack of reconstruction of the country which further fuels the insurgency..(Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press)
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  • Jul 17, 2009 - Kandahar, Afghanistan - US soldiers and  Afghan police move through the village of Nakhonay just west of Kandahar City on an operation to clear insurgents in Panjwai District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan. .(Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press)
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  • Jul 23, 2009 - Kandahar, Afghanistan - The body of a young Afghan man a seen in a Canadian front line hospital after he was fatally shot during a battle between the Afghan Army and Taliban insurgents in Zhari District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan. The medics at this front line army hospital worked desperately to save and revive him, but the wounds were too severe for him survive..(Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press)
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  • Sep 11, 2009 - Golestan, Farah Province, Afghanistan - A US Marine from the 2nd MEB of the 2/3 Marines searches for insurgents on "Fighting Mountain" aka "Kohe Tengay" which in Pashto means "Three Kings" after his unit was ambushed by insurgents near the Buji Bast Pass (aka Bhuji Bast)  in Golestan, Farah Province, where US Marines have been deadlocked in a bitter counterinsurgency campaign and conflict with insurgents using mainly Improvise Explosive Devices (IED's).<br />
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  • Sep 11, 2009 - Golestan, Farah Province, Afghanistan - A crater and pile of rubble in a ditch where a US Marine Humvee hit a roadside bomb injuring several marines in the Buji Bast Pass (aka Bhuji Bast) in Golestan, Farah Province, after several days of insurgent attacks, ambushes and roadside bombs. US Marines have been deadlocked in a bitter counterinsurgency campaign and conflict with insurgents using mainly Improvise Explosive Devices (IED's).(Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press)
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  • Afghan children tending to their sheep look over the ashes from a fire to burn off military food packaging used by Canadian soldiers in the impoverished farming village of Chalgower in Panjwaii District, Kandahar, Afghanistan. Over the summer a brutal insurgency took hold in Chalgower and in the surrounding villages resulting in injury and death to numerous civilians, insurgents and soldiers without completely expelling the insurgents influence in the area. (Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press/The Alexia Foundation)
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  • Sep 05, 2009 - Delaram, Nimroz Province, Afghanistan - Black smoke billows from the charred remains from a suicide attack on a civilian convoy on Highway 1 outside the US Marine Forward Operating base Delaram, a strategic and economic crossroads in South Eastern Afghanistan located in Nimroz Province. The suicide attack was made using a Vehicle Borne Improvised Explosive Device (VBIED) killing three Afghans and injuring several others.<br />
(Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press)
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  • Sep 05, 2009 - Delaram, Nimroz Province, Afghanistan - A US Marine from the 2nd MEB of the 2/3 Marines stands in a bunker following a suicide attack on a civilian convoy on Highway 1 outside the US Marine Forward Operating base Delaram, a strategic and economic crossroads in South Eastern Afghanistan located in Nimroz Province. The suicide attack was made using a Vehicle Borne Improvised Explosive Device (VBIED) killing three Afghans and injuring several others. (Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press)
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  • Sep 06, 2009 - Golestan District, Farah Province, Afghanistan - A US Marine from the 2nd MEB of the 2/3 Marines takes cover behind trees just outside a village in Golestan in Farah Province, where US Marines have been locked in a bitter counterinsurgency campaign and conflict with insurgents using mainly Improvise Explosive Devices (IED's). (Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press)
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  • Sep 06, 2009 - Golestan District, Farah Province, Afghanistan -US Marines from the 2nd MEB of the 2/3 Marines patrol through farmland just outside a village in Golestan in Farah Province, where US Marines have been locked in a bitter counterinsurgency campaign and conflict with insurgents using mainly Improvise Explosive Devices (IED's). (Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press)
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  • Sep 07, 2009 - Farah Province, Afghanistan -  US Marines prepare to continue a patrol after questioning an Afghan boy about insurgents in a village during a clearing operation in Golestan just before entering the dreaded Buji Bast Pass (aka Bhuji Bast) in Farah Province, Afghanistan.<br />
(Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press)
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  • Sep 09, 2009 - Golestan, Farah Province, Afghanistan - A US Marine from the 2nd MEB of the 2/3 Marines stands watch as two Air Force engineers plant explosives to destroy a Taliban rocket found after fighting in the Black Pass in a hostile region by the Buji Bast Pass (aka Bhuji Bast) and "Fighting Mountain" aka "Kohe Tengay" which in Pashto means "Three Kings"  in Golestan, Farah Province, where US Marines have been deadlocked in a bitter counterinsurgency campaign and conflict with insurgents using mainly Improvise Explosive Devices (IED's).<br />
(Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press)
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  • Sep 10, 2009 - Golestan, Farah Province, Afghanistan - US Marine Lcpl Zonell Westfield age 21, from Tennessee of the 2nd MEB of the 2/3 Marines sits by a machine gun in the turret of his humvee after sporadic fighting in the Black Pass, Buji Bast Pass (aka Bhuji Bast) and "Fighting Mountain" aka "Kohe Tengay" which in Pashto means "Three Kings"  in Golestan, Farah Province, where US Marines have been deadlocked in a bitter counterinsurgency campaign and conflict with insurgents using mainly Improvise Explosive Devices (IED's).<br />
(Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press)
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  • Sep 10, 2009 - Farah Province, Afghanistan - The foot prints of US Marines following the tire tracks of their armored vehicles as they attempt to avoid land mines planted by insurgents in the Buji Bast Pass, where insurgents have planted numerous roadside bombs, mines and IED's in Golestan, Farah Province, Afghanistan.<br />
(Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press)
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  • Sep 12, 2009 - Golestan, Farah Province, Afghanistan - US Marines from the 2nd MEB of the 2/3 Marines Fox Company work out in a makeshift gym at Forward Operating Base Goleston in, Farah Province, after several days of insurgent attacks, ambushes and roadside bombs. US Marines have been deadlocked in a bitter counterinsurgency campaign and conflict with insurgents using mainly Improvise Explosive Devices (IED's).<br />
(Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press)
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  • Alexander The Great invasion route to Kandahar.<br />
One of several parts of an armored vehicle shattered by a roadside bomb sits by a stopped US Marine armored vehicle as they attempt to take a new path to avoid numerous land mines planted by insurgents in the Buji Bast Pass, where insurgents have planted roadside bombs, mines and IED's in Golestan, Farah Province, Afghanistan.
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  • Afghan girls begging outside shops in Kandahar City, Afghanistan. Despite the amount of money invested in rebuilding Afghanistan, poverty remains one of the number one issues affecting Afghans on a daily basis. (Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press/The Alexia Foundation)
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  • Alexander The Great invasion route to Kandahar <br />
Sep 11, 2009 - Golestan, Farah Province, Afghanistan - Under fire from insurgents US Marines from the 2nd MEB of the 2/3 Marines Fox Company fight their way out of a valley in the Buji Bast Pass (aka Bhuji Bast) in Golestan, Farah Province, after several days of insurgent attacks, ambushes and roadside bombs. US Marines have been deadlocked in a bitter counterinsurgency campaign and conflict with insurgents using mainly Improvise Explosive Devices (IED's).<br />
(Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press)
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  • Sep 12, 2009 - Golestan, Farah Province, Afghanistan - After several days of fighting US Marines from the 2nd MEB of the 2/3 Marines Fox Company shave each others heads at Forward Operating Base Goleston in, Farah Province, after several days of insurgent attacks, ambushes and roadside bombs. US Marines have been deadlocked in a bitter counterinsurgency campaign and conflict with insurgents using mainly Improvise Explosive Devices (IED's).<br />
(Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press)
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  • Aug 19, 2009 - Panjway District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan - One of several mountains surrounded by a barren and desolate desert like landscape outside of Kandahar City in Panjway District, Afghanistan.<br />
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  • Aug 10, 2009 - Kandahar Province, Afghanistan - A sandbagged building on top of a defensive wall at a NATO and Afghan forward operating base on the front lines in the insurgent stronghold of Panjway District outside Kandahar City, Afghanistan.<br />
(Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press)
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  • Aug 10, 2009 - Kandahar Province, Afghanistan - A trench system at a NATO and Afghan forward operating base on the front lines in the insurgent stronghold of Panjway District outside Kandahar City, Afghanistan.<br />
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  • Canadian Infantry from the Royal Canadian Regiment (RCR) take cover behind a mud wall after an improvised explosive device (IED) blast ahead of them while on a clearing operation in the Sperwan area of voltile Panjwaii District in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Canadian Forces have been conducting a bloody counterinsurgency campaign in this region since 2006 when the insurgency made it's return to the region.(Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press/The Alexia Foundation)
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  • Sep 20, 2009 - Kandahar Province, Afghanistan - An abandoned section of NATO's Kandahar Airfield (KAF) which was once a section of where the Russians operated in the 1980's. Now mined and full of unexploded ordinance (UXO) it is fenced in with old Russian barbed wire.<br />
(Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press)
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  • Alexander The Great invasion route to Kandahar <br />
Sep 09, 2009 - Farah Province, Afghanistan - A US Marine sits by his armored vehicle (HUMVEE) eating a military ration after several days of fighting in the Buji Bast Pass, where insurgents have planted numerous roadside bombs, mines and IED's in Golestan, Farah Province, Afghanistan.<br />
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  • A US soldier covers a patrol through a field with a machine gun in an area where Alexander the Great built a fortress and the British fought a significant battle in Maiwand District, Kandahar Afghanistan. (Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press/The Alexia Foundation)
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  • Jul 16, 2009 - Kandahar Province, Afghanistan - A Taliban weapons cache consisting of AK-47's, PKM machine gun RPG's (Rocket Propelled Grenades), ammunition and materials for making IED's seen in Nakhonay located in the volatile Panjway District just west of Kandahar City in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan. <br />
(Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press)
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  • Jun 14, 2009 - Kandahar Province, Afghanistan - Afghan children seen by their homes as a patrol of Canadian troops passes by in the Pashmul area of Zhari District west of Kandahar City, Afghanistan.<br />
(Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press)
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  • An Afghan man detained as a suspected insurgent by Afghan and Canadian troops is lead away with his hands bound in the village of Salavat in the insurgent stronghold of Panjwaii District in Kandahar, Afghanistan. (Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press/The Alexia Foundation)
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