Photo Gallery Dying for Kabul
Southern Afghanistan is far from having been pacified -- a bloody war with the Taliban has erupted there. German troops have picked a relatively comfortable spot for themselves in the north of the country. Because they have avoided deadly fighting, they have been labeled "cowards" by the Americans and Brits. But are they?
Doctors from Germany's military, the Bundeswehr, treat an Afghan child in Kabul.
Foto: Knut Müller
A Bundeswehr patrol near Kabul: The level of disappointment Afghans feel about their Western liberators is enormous.
Foto: Knut Müller
The opium fields: If the Taliban regains control in Afghanistan, the terrorists will return and use money generated from drug cultivation and smuggling to finance weapons and terror attacks in the West.
Foto: REUTERS
Militia leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar: No one is safe in Afghanistan anymore.
Foto: AFP
British elite troops in the southern Afghanistan province of Helmand: "That's the worst place I've ever been."
Foto: REUTERS
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