Daily Life in Afghanistan - In Pictures!

[ColdBlooded]

Snapshots of life in Afghanistan, as seen by press photographers over the past two months.

An Afghan Special Forces policeman walks through a poppy field as he searches for Taliban fighters in the village of Sanjaray in Zhari district early April 26, 2008. (REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic)

An Afghan soldier takes a break as coalition forces search for Taliban fighters in the village of Sanjaray in Zhari district early April 26, 2008. (REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic)

An Afghan policeman adjusts his Kalashnikov rifle in the village of Sanjaray in Zhari district, some 35 km west of Kandahar, April 27, 2008. (REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic)

Coalition forces cross a river during a mission near the village of Siah Choy west of Kandahar in Zhari district May 1, 2008. (REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic)

A U.S. Marine, from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, has a close call after Taliban fighters opened fire near Garmser in Helmand Province of Afghanistan May 18, 2008. The Marine was not injured. (REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic)

A U.S. Marine, from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, has a close call after Taliban fighters opened fire near Garmser in Helmand Province of Afghanistan May 18, 2008. The Marine was not injured. (REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic)

Corp. James Davis of the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit is covered in desert dust after dismounting from his vehicle as he arrives at a forward operating base in southern Afghanistan Thursday, April 24, 2008. Some 3,500 U.S. Marines arrived in Afghanistan to help NATO's increasingly bloody fight against the Taliban. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)

British troops from 13th Air Assault Regiment and a U.S. Marine from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit watch as palettes of water bottles drift to the ground on parachutes as NATO planes make a resupply airdrop to a forward operating base in southern Afghanistan Saturday, April 26, 2008. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)

Taliban militants stand with faces covered near the administrative department of Roshidan district, after capturing it in Ghazni province, Afghanistan on Friday May 30, 2008. Taliban militants attacked and captured a remote town from the Afghan government overnight, taking captive the district's government leader and eight police, militants and officials said. (AP Photo/Rahmatullah Naikzad)

An Afghan woman begs for alms, as a man rides past, with a backdrop of the Darul Aman's palace which was destroyed during the civil war of 1992 in the city of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Wednesday March 23, 2008. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

An Afghan boy sits on a donkey as he carries grass for cattle to his home on the outskirts of Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan, Wednesday, May 7, 2008. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Afghan girls swing in the old part of Kabul, Afghanistan on May 23, 2008. (MASSOUD HOSSAINI/AFP/Getty Images)

 

[Formaldehyde Rx]

Its fucked up how the UN will tell them its illegal to grow opium and then turn around and finance its production in Tasmania and Turkey.

 

[Fucky McFuckerson]

Awwww...Afghanistan's number one export to the US...POPPY!

 

[JoMoDo]

But w/ rising food prices, it's bout to wheat, grains, and other food, b/c they can now get chipped off in almost comparable prices (not quite yet), and they don't have to worry about getting thrown in the can.

 

[2-0-Sixx]

dope pictures, thanks.

 

[Fucky McFuckerson]

dope pictures, thanks.

Pun intedended?

 

[InfamousICON]

Here's a few with me in them from 2006, the ones in the village really show daily life in Afghanistan with their trashed garbage villages....

Me standing in front of the village of Nangalam, out in the middle of nowhere in northeast Afghanistan, notice the women in the backround who aren't even allowed to show their eyes

Walking through the village of Nangalam, that's me standing across the street by the white truck

Another one walking through the village

Here's one walking straight up one of their crazy ass mountains

Different mountain, later that day


I got a few hundred more from the 16 months I spent there lol but unfortunately most of them are in an external harddrive back in the states.

 

[mq66]

cool pictures man

 

[lil pk]

Surprising those Taliban have new Bulgarian Aks

 

[coondogg26]

^ya but look at their shoes, LMAO. this fool got work shoes on out in the fuckin desert

 

[lil pk]

Some forces are known for wearing regular shoes in a warzone...alot of Spetsnaz commandos wear addidas.

 

[HUERO''909]

heres some pics from a ny times article...the unit is the 173rd airborne brigade in the korengal valley...

Lt. Matt Piosa rests inside a bunker. The 173rd airborne brigade Battle Company established the bunker after a difficult battle with insurgents to control the strategic high grounds near the Korengal Outpost.

Soldiers with the battle company take shelter from a mortar barrage in a bunker at the Korengal Outpost.

Capt. Dan Kearney bows his head in frustration after the denial of his request for an air strike against men walking nearby with weapons. Above his head, the laser of an AC-130 plane tracks a potential target.

Sgt. Tanner Stichter tends to a wounded Specialist Carl Vandenberge.

Soldiers take shelter behind a tree trunk as they await the arrival of a medevac helicopter. The helicopter will airlift the body of Staff Sgt. Larry Rougle, who was killed in the insurgent ambush.

Specialist Carl Vandenberge, right, and Staff Sgt. Kevin Rice, left, are assisted as they walk to a medevac helicopter after being shot by insurgents in the ambush.

U.S. troops carry the body of Staff Sgt. Larry Rougle, who was killed when the insurgents ambushed their squad in the Korengal Valley.

A soldier sits alone in the dust of a medevac helicopter as it departs with the body of his comrade Staff Sgt. Rougle.