Afghanistan: February 2012

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21 February, there were reports that copies of the Koran were burned at the Bagram airbase. Anti-American demonstrations immediately began, despite statements by NATO and the US presidential administration that the burning was not intentional. As a result of the riots, several dozen people have already died, including four American soldiers. This incident markedly overshadowed the procedure for withdrawing Coalition troops from Afghanistan. According to the Pentagon, from May 2007 to January 2012, NATO lost 70 people killed as a result of attacks by “insiders” from the Afghan army.
This collection contains a photo of The Atlantic from Afghanistan over the past month.





1. A CH-47 Chinook helicopter lands in the Shah Joey area of ​​Zabul Province, Afghanistan, February 8 2012. (US Navy / Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jon Rasmussen)



2. An Afghan boy looks at a paramedic Gul Farukh from the 2 th border police regiment during a search during a joint patrol with US marines, 30 January 2012. (USMC / Cpl. Reece Lodder)



3. Afghans warm their hands over a fire in Kabul, February 9 2012. For the first time in the last 15 years, the temperature has dropped to -16C. (AP Photo / Musadeq Sadeq)



4. Sergeant Guillermo Floresmartinez crosses a canal in the village of Shre Kala in Helmand Province, February 16 2012. (USMC / Cl. Alfred V. Lopez)



5. The local elder asks a question to the head of the Garmsir district, Muhammad Fahim, who came to ask the elders to support efforts to maintain order in the country. Now they will have to manage with their own forces, without the help of the Coalition. (USMC / Cpl. Reece Lodder)



6. A boy selling peas on Kabul Street, February 19 2012. (AP Photo / Ahmad Nazar)



7. Senior Sergeant Rogelio Martinez, technician of the 76 Rescue Squadron, inspects the camera in the nose of the HC-130 "King" search and rescue aircraft. (USAF / Tech. Sgt. Beth Del Vecchio)



8. Refugees from Helmand Province in Charkhi Kambar camp on the outskirts of Kabul, February 6 2012. Thousands of Afghans fled from their homes to escape the intimidation of the Taliban and NATO bombings. From the new scourge - an unusually cold winter - there is nowhere to run. (Shah Marai / AFP / Getty Images)



9. The notorious copies of the Koran, which, according to the Afghans, the American soldiers tried to burn. Demonstrators show books to everyone during a protest action at the gates of Bagram 21 air base in February 2012. (Shah Marai / AFP / Getty Images)



10. Police are trying to deter the onslaught of the mob during the 24 anti-American demonstration of February 2012 of the year. (AP Photo / Jawed Basharat)



11. The guy looks at the demonstrators through the window of the bakery in which he works. 23 February in Kabul during a riot 12 people were killed. (Reuters / Ahmad Masood)



12. Demonstrators at the base of Bagram, February 21 2012 year. Discontent with the burning of the Koran came to express about 2000 Afghans, and some of them shot in the air. (AP Photo / Musadeq Sadeq)



13. Afghan police near the US military base are preparing to deter demonstrators, February 23 2012. (AP Photo / Rahmat Gul)



14. Protesters are trying to stone the water at the entrance to the US military base in Kabul, February 22 2012. (Reuters / Ahmad Masood)



15. A man aims at Americans from an air rifle near the gate of the Bagram airbase, February 21 2012. Afghans armed with Molotov cocktails and slingshots literally laid siege to the largest US base in the country. Sentries on the towers answered them with rubber bullets. (Shah Marai / AFP / Getty Images)



16. Afghan policemen amid smoke from a NATO fuel tank set on fire by demonstrators, Jalalabad Province, February 22. (Reuters / Parwiz)



17. The riots in Kabul 24 February 2012 of the year. On this day, the police shot and killed two demonstrators in different parts of the city. (Reuters / Ahmad Masood)



18. Afghan police officer confiscated from the demonstrators American flag. The Taliban share the indignation of the masses and propose killing people from the West and attacking all NATO bases. (Reuters / Omar Sobhani)



19. Supposedly dead demonstrator surrounded by comrades in Kabul, February 24. (Reuters / Ahmad Masood)



20. A policeman shoots into the air to disperse a crowd of 23 demonstrators February 2012 of the year. The US apologized for burning the Quran and stated that it was not intentional. (AP Photo)



21. Pallets loaded with dropped from the C-130J. The navigation system on each pallet controls the parachute so that the cargo will land at the designated place without harming buildings or people and saving the troops from unnecessary movement and search. (USAF / SrA Tyler Placie)



22. Afghan refugee from Helmand province in a camp in Kabul, February 7 2012. Every day, camps are replenished with hundreds of new refugees fleeing the cold and fighting. (AP Photo / Musadeq Sadeq, File)



23. People expect the issuance of sheets and winter jackets in a refugee camp in Kabul, February 20 2012. The unusually cold winter for Afghanistan has already led to the death of 40 people. (AP Photo / Musadeq Sadeq)



24. A refugee girl awaits the delivery of UN humanitarian aid in Kabul, February 12 2012. (AP Photo / Musadeq Sadeq)



25. F-15E "Strike Eagle" from 335 Fighter Squadron near Bagram Air Base, February 13. (USAF / Tech. Sgt. Matt Hecht)



26. Sergeant Aaron Sweeney and Staff Sergeant Robert Novak of the 377 Parachute Artillery Regiment are watching the fire support call exercise near the Salerno Operational Base, February 3. (US Army / Spc. Ken Scar)



27. Junior sergeant of the staff company of the battalion of special forces 3-th brigade of the 25-th infantry division at the operational base Fenty, Nangarhar province, 20 February.



28. Afghan troops on patrol during the operation to disarm the Taliban’s production and storage network weapons and Ammunition, Wardak Province, February 24. (US Navy / MC3 Sebastian McCormack)



29. Afghan commando with a grenade launcher at shooting practice in the district of Tarin Kovt, province of Uruzgan, February 2. (US Navy / Petty Officer 2nd Class Jacob Dillon)



30. One of the twenty Taliban militants who went over to the side of the government forces in Herat, 18 February. (Aref Karimi / AFP / Getty Images)



31. Boys on a frozen lake in Kabul, February 2. (Reuters / Mohammad Ismail)



32. Addict near the Kabul River, January 18 2012. The number of drug addicts in the country has greatly increased, but because of corruption, the spread of methadone for treatment is impossible. (Shah Marai / AFP / Getty Images)



33. Addict smokes after injection, Kabul, January 18 2012. (Shah Marai / AFP / Getty Images)



34. firefighter washes away blood stains at the site of the bomb blast, Helmand province 9 February 2012. The blast killed two policemen, and one was injured. (AP Photo / Abdul Khaleq)



35. Detonation by American sappers of unexploded ordnance in Pul-e Khumri district, Bahlan province, February 8. (US Army / Spc. Robin Davis)



36. Junior Corporal Brandon Mann and Ty's Service Dog between the villages of Shre Kala and Paygel in Helmand Province, February 17. Mann and Ti, trained to find homemade bombs, serve in the first reconnaissance battalion of the Marine Corps. (USMC / Cl. Alfred V. Lopez)



37. Three-year-old Gunnar Ferrer hugs his father - Sergeant Denton Ferrer, who returned home from Afghanistan, February 17.



38. Sergeant Jamie Gerbot, injured by an Afghan sniper, arrives at Philip Billard Airport in Topeka, Kansas. 17 February 2012 of the year. (AP Photo / The Topeka Capital Journal, Anthony S. Bush)



39. Andrew and Laura Johnson at the memorial service for their son, Senior Lt. Devil Johnson, February 15 of the year 2012. Johnson died on patrol from a homemade bomb blast. (AP Photo / Elaine Thompson)



40. Afghan border guards and US marines are loaded into the CH-53D "C Stellion" helicopter before the operation "Shah Tofan", February 10 2012 of the year. (USMC / Cpl. Reece Lodder)
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    1. grizzlir
      +3
      11 March 2012 09: 13
      I wonder how much the current Afghan leadership will last without the support of American troops. Even in better times, the government was not able to control most of Afghanistan.
      1. Altergo
        0
        29 March 2012 09: 45
        Yes, the Americans should leave at all, and the Taliban will again steer.
    2. +3
      11 March 2012 10: 05
      Shocked the eyes of ordinary Afghans. In the eyes - pain, anxiety, hatred. And not just one calm.
      1. 0
        11 March 2012 15: 49
        And compare them with the eyes of a boy from the USA
    3. 755962
      0
      11 March 2012 10: 35
      The violent protests of the Afghans once again demonstrate to the United States the true attitude towards them in Afghanistan: "They are tired of the American military presence and peacekeeping." The commander of the Iranian units of the Basij militia, Brigadier General Muhammad Reza Nakdi, said: “Only the burning of the White House can heal such a wound. In order for us to accept the apologies of the Americans, they must hang those who burned the Qur'an, as well as their commanders. Then we will understand that they really apologize. "
      1. Force 75
        0
        11 March 2012 11: 29
        And why Russia apologize for burning the Koran? I do not need them
        1. 755962
          0
          11 March 2012 12: 35
          Quote: Force 75
          Then we will understand that they really apologize. "

          Continuation of the quotation of the general. But not how you understood.
          1. 0
            11 March 2012 13: 01
            Sorry, no, I quickly read it.
    4. Force 75
      0
      11 March 2012 11: 27
      And why Russia apologize for burning the Koran? I do not need them.
    5. +4
      11 March 2012 13: 04
      In photo No. 10, the young man in the center of the photograph more closely resembles our native village boy than the Afghan. And the look is painfully dear and familiar .... like before a fight ...
    6. Railways
      -2
      11 March 2012 13: 43
      It’s hard to kill with rubber bullets, it’s strange how people could die there. . .
      1. 0
        12 March 2012 21: 13
        With proper skill and idle banging you can, most importantly skillfully!
    7. +2
      11 March 2012 15: 06
      here no one is touched by amers or Afghans
      1. Anatoly
        0
        11 March 2012 16: 20
        Rather, a little respect for the Afghans - for so many years to bind the American military machine in guerrilla wars ...! it is worthy of respect.
    8. lars
      +1
      11 March 2012 17: 19
      The classic remains - "If you want to be in the dust - go to Puli-Khumri, if you want a bullet in the ass - go to Jalalabad!"
    9. Kazak_30
      +1
      15 March 2012 13: 46
      It’s a pity for peaceful Afghans and their children ... I don’t know if I could live like this when they constantly shoot, there’s no work, nothing! Sorry for the soldier, a purely human pity. They are just cannon fodder, which were lured by benefits, a green card, and as a result, either a disability or death! I can’t look into the eyes of Afghan children ... my son is growing! Thank you photographer, I shot everything well, without pre-decoration, don’t bring the Lord of War !!!!

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