Afghanistan March 2012

March was replaced by a difficult February, and it turned out to be even harder for the Coalition forces. 11 March US Army Sergeant Robert Bales killed 17 civilian Afghans, including 9 children. Bales is now in custody and is likely to be sentenced to death. The passions after the burning of the Koran had not yet subsided when Bales staged a massacre, thereby aggravating the already tense situation in Afghanistan. In the US, fewer and fewer people support the presence of troops in Afghanistan, but the administration of President Barack Obama is in no hurry to change the timetable for their withdrawal. According to this schedule, the last unit should return home in 2014 year. In this collection - a photo from Afghanistan for the past month.

1. A local resident looks after the police at a control point where Afghans and soldiers from the 2 Infantry Regiment of the Blackhawk Group, Yosef Khel, 9 in March 2012 are on duty together. . (US Army / Spc. Ken Scar)

2. E-3 refueling "Sentry" from the flying tanker KS-10 from the 908 squadron of tankers over Afghanistan, 3 March 2012. In 2011, 908-I refueled spent more than 28000 refueling, spending 390 millions of pounds of fuel on this during 4600 tasks. (USAF / Staff Sgt. Greg Biondo)

3. A lone man in a newly planted field near the US base in Jalalabad, 22 March 2012. (Reuters / Erik De Castro)

4. Afghan Special Forces are waiting for a cable to be launched from a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter to evacuate the wounded. The teachings of the coalition forces in Nangarhar, March 3 2012. (Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force / Petty Officer 2nd Class Clayton Weis)

5. Officers of the Afghan National Army at the layout in the Shahin camp near Mazar-i-Sharif, 26 March 2012. (Qais Usyan / AFP / Getty Images)

6. A refugee girl is crying: her coupon was stolen for groceries while she was standing in line for a humanitarian aid truck in Kabul, 4 March 2012. (AP Photo / Anja Niedringhaus)

7. A fighter of the Afghan National Army during a night sweep operation in Wardak province, 6 March 2012. (US Army / Spc. Savoy Anderson)

8. A doorknob made from a mortar mine tail, based on the 13 Cavalry Regiment in Laghman province, 24 March 2012. (Reuters / Erik De Castro)

9. Soldiers of the 172 Infantry Brigade on patrol in the village of Yahya Kel, March 10 2012. (US Army / Spc. Ken Scar)

10. French soldiers at the ceremony before being sent home at Surobi base in Kabul province, 18 March 2012. By the end of March, about 200 military personnel departed to France, and the number of troops based at the contingent was reduced to 600 people. (Shah Marai / AFP / Getty Images)

11. French soldiers at the ceremony before being sent home at Surobi base in Kabul province, 18 March 2012.

12. Residents of the village of Mohamad Khan are going to receive humanitarian aid, 17 March 2012. (ISAF Media)

13. The wife of the Italian soldier Michel Silvestri at the airport near Rome, sobs at the sight of the coffin with the body of her husband, 26 March 2012. Sergeant. Michel Silvestri was killed in a battle when his squad came under mortar fire in the province of Farah in Afghanistan. (AP Photo / Pier Paolo Cito)

14. Soldiers of the 172 Infantry Brigade on patrol in the village of Yosef Kehl, 10 March 2012. Soldiers from Company A of the 1 Battalion of the 2 Regiment helped the Afghan military and police to set up checkpoints on leaving the village. One of the cars was stuck in the mud. (US Army / Spc. Ken Scar)

15. The Black Hawk UH-60 helicopter takes off, landing eight soldiers of the 1 Cavalry Regiment in Daman district, Kandahar province. They worked as observers during the air strikes by the Afghan 1 air wing March 2012. (1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team)

16. The girls from the Afghan Olympic basketball team play against the ISAF team in Kabul, 7 March, 2012. Changes in the rights of women since the US invasion of Iraq are simply colossal: then the Taliban forbade women to go to school and work. But despite the progress that is so strongly felt in the cities, in remote areas of the country almost nothing has changed. (Shah Marai / AFP / Getty Images)

17. Former Taliban fighter, who later, along with 11 rebels, sided with government forces, Herat, 26 in March 2012. (Aref Karimi / AFP / Getty Images)

18. In the right mirror of the armored "Boxer" - a reflection of the German tanker, 28 March 2012. (Johannes Eisele / AFP / Getty Images)

19. Sergeant Headquarters Robert Bales in Fort Irvine, Calif., August 23 2011. In March, 2012 he shot 16 Afghans, including 9 children. (AP Photo / DVIDS, Spc. Ryan Hallock)

20. Anar Ghul (right) next to the body of her grandson, allegedly killed by Robert Bales in Panjway, Kandahar Province, 11 March 2012. (AP Photo / Allauddin Khan)

21. The expert examines the liner at the scene of the killing of civilians by the American soldier Robert Bales. Americans paid compensation in the amount of 50 thousand dollars for each dead and 11 thousand dollars for each wounded. These sums considerably exceed the size of ordinary compensations - in this way the USA is trying to save a precarious situation and smooth its guilt before the inhabitants of the country. (AP Photo)

22. Prayer over the graves of 16 victims of the Panjwai massacre, 24 March 2012. Muhammad Wazir now can not even drink water - it reminds him of the death of his seven-year-old daughter. Shortly before the tragic accident, Muhammad asked his wife to give him water, but Masuma’s daughter did it instead of her mother. (AP Photo / Allauddin Khan)

23. The girl carries the collected brushwood to her house, Bagram, 27 March, 2012. Her family, shepherding sheep and leading a nomadic lifestyle, uses fuel for heating and cooking. (Reuters / Erik De Castro)

24. A police helicopter flies over the Hazrat Ali mosque in Kabul during the celebration of the Afghan New Year, 20 March 2012. Afghans use a special calendar, where chronology starts from the vernal equinox of the year 621, when the Prophet Mohammed set off from Mecca to Medina. Now is the 1391 year. (Reuters / Omar Sobhani)

25. Afghan policemen on the road leading to the Sahi Mosque in Kabul, 20 March 2012. (Massoud Hossaini / AFP / Getty Images)

26. Soldiers of the Afghan National Army at the exercises in the training center of Kabul, 8 March 2012. (AP Photo / Anja Niedringhaus)

27. The container with the body of Junior Sergeant Dakain Rivers from Marianna, Florida, is unloaded from the plane in Delaware, 17 March 2912. (AP Photo / Jose Luis Magana)

28. Thirty-five marines from the 2 March 9 division returned home after seven months in Afghanistan. (USMC / Staff Sgt. Brittany E. Jones)

29. Militiamen and German infantry march to the bridge in Baghlan, 27 March 2012. (Johannes Eisele / AFP / Getty Images)

30. Afghan girl in the country's first internet cafe for women, Kabul, March 8 2012. Here women can go online without fear of insult from fellow countrymen of the opposite sex. (Reuters / Mohammad Ismail)

31. Transportation howitzer М777 from the operational base of Salerno to Chamkani outpost, 28 in March 2012. (US Army / Spc. Eric-James Estrada)

32. Afghans escort a Taliban fighter who was caught disguised as a woman in Mechterlam, Laghman province, 28 March 2012. (AP Photo / Rahmat Gul)

33. The policemen cover the man’s leg with a cloth at the site of the attack. 5 March 2012 suicide bomber blew himself up at a checkpoint in Jalalabad: a 1 man was killed, 11 was injured. (AP Photo / Rahmat Gul)

34. cooking rice in the dining room at the base of Shahin, Mazar-i-Sharif, 24 in March 2012. (Johannes Eisele / AFP / Getty Images)

35. A boy from the village of Yosef Kel, 8 March 2012. (US Army / Spc. Ken Scar)

36. A fighter of the special squad of the coalition forces collects firewood in the village of Sayagaz, Argandab district, 11 in March 2012. (US Navy / Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jacob L. Dillon)

37. Afghan police at the wreckage of a Turkish helicopter that fell on the outskirts of Kabul 16 March 2012. A fighting helicopter crashed right into the house, killing people on board and two girls on the ground. (AP Photo / Musadeq Sadeq)

38. Turkish Guardsmen at the coffins with the bodies of soldiers killed in the crash of the helicopter, Ankara, 20 March 2012. (Reuters / Umit Bektas)

39. A child near the father's shop in the old part of Kabul, 3 March, 2012. (AP Photo / Anja Niedringhaus)

40. Local residents gather for a veterinary seminar, which will be conducted by representatives of the Agricultural Committee in Zabul. The committee includes servicemen from the Minnesota and Mississippi National Guard. (US Army National Guard / 1st Lt. Davin Fischer)

41. Graffiti on a wall in Kabul, 5 March, 2012. One of the many works of street artists in Kabul devoted to the problem of humiliation and violence against women. Despite significant progress since the fall of the Taliban regime ten years ago, the struggle for women's rights is still in its infancy. (Reuters / Mohammad Ismail)

Comments

[Lech e-mine]

You don’t have to go into a strange monastery with your charter.

[Yarbay]

long-suffering people !!

[TAN_a_TOS]

There were British, then Russians, then a coalition ...
Everyone wants to control heroin.

[Rashid]

Sorry for the girl whose coupons were stolen, but all these Italians, Turks and other "peacekeepers" are not at all sorry. What they came for, they got it. I don't believe in the version that the massacre was staged by one Bales, most likely, there were several people there (the brave marines are unlikely to go out alone at night from the territory of the base), they just made one extreme.

[Kazak_30]

Cruel you Rashid! These are the same people as you and I who were sent to die for the interests of the ruling cones! I feel sorry for them!

[virm]

41 photos. Antifa and sneaked into Afghanistan?

[ISO]

The "peacekeepers" will dump them, too, feel sorry for themselves, but the mess will continue, since no one will pump finance into Afghanistan like Chechnya ...

[sergey69]

The Soviet Union also fought in Afghanistan, and our fighters were also hated around the world like you Americans. They are soldiers and carry out the order of senior management.

[arhipelag]

He not only fought, but also built schools and much more.

[CC-18a]

Here is what the USSR built in Afghanistan: 1. Hydroelectric power station Puli-Khumri-II with a capacity of 9 thousand kW on the river. Kungduz 1962 2. TPP at a nitrogen fertilizer plant with a capacity of 48 thousand kW (4x12) 1st stage - 1972 Stage II - 1974 (36 MW) Extension - 1982 (up to 48 MW) 3. Dam and HPP "Naglu" on the river. Kabul with a capacity of 100 thousand kW 1966 extension - 1974 4. Power lines with substations from the Puli-Khumri-II hydroelectric station to the city of Baghlan and Kunduz (110 km) 1967 5. Power transmission line with a 35/6 kV substation from a thermal power plant at a nitrogen fertilizer plant to the city of Mazar Sheriff (17,6 km) 1972 6-8. An electrical substation in the northwestern part of Kabul and a 110 kV transmission line from the Vostochnaya electrical substation (25 km) 1974 9-16. 8 tank farms with a total capacity of 8300 cubic meters. m 1952 - 1958 17. A gas pipeline from a gas production site to a nitrogen fertilizer plant in Mazar Sheriff 88 km long and with a capacity of 0,5 billion. cu. m of gas per year 1968 1968 18-19. The gas pipeline from the gas field to the USSR border is 98 km long, 820 mm in diameter, with a throughput of 4 billion. cu. m of gas per year, including an air passage through the Amu Darya river with a length of 660 m in 1967, an air passage of the gas pipeline -1974. 20. Looping on a 53 km 1980 gas main 21. Power lines - 220 kV from the Soviet border in the area of Shirkhan BC Kunduza (first stage) 1986 22. Expansion of the oil depot in the port of Hairaton by 5 thousand cu. m 1981 23. Tank farm in Mazar Sheriff with a capacity of 12 thousand cu. m 1982 24. Oil depot in Logar with a capacity of 27 thousand cu. m 1983 25. Tank farm in Bullets - Khumri with a capacity of 6 thousand cu. m 26-28. Three trucking companies in Kabul for 300 Kamaz trucks each 1985 29. Motor transportation truck service company in Kabul 30. Service station for Kamaz vehicles in Hairaton 1984 31. Arrangement of gas production in the area of Shibergan with a capacity of 2,6 billion. cu. m of gas per year 1968 32. Arrangement of a gas production facility at the Dzharkuduk field with a complex of facilities for desulfurization and gas preparation for transportation in the amount of up to 1,5 bln. cu. m of gas per year 1980 33. Booster compressor station at the Khoja-Gugerdag gas field, 1981 34-36. Nitrogen Fertilizer Plant in Mazar-Sheriff with a capacity of 105 thousand tons of urea per year with a residential village and a construction base in 1974 37. Car repair plant in Kabul with a capacity of 1373 overhauls of cars and 750 tons of metal products in the year 1960 38. Airport "Bagram" with a runway of 3000 m 1961 39. International airfield in Kabul with a runway of 2800x47 m 1962 40. Shindand airfield with a runway of 2800 m 1977 41. Multichannel communication line from Mazar Sheriff to Hairaton 1982 42. Stationary satellite communication station "Intersputnik" of the "Lotos" type 43. House-building plant in Kabul with a capacity of 35 thousand sq m of living space in the year 1965 44. Expansion of the house-building plant in Kabul up to 37 thousand sq. m of living space in the year 1982 45. Asphalt-concrete plant in Kabul, asphalting of streets and delivery of road cars (equipment and technical assistance were supplied through the MVT) 1955 46. River port Shirkhan, designed for processing 155 thousand tons of cargo per year, including 20 thousand tons of oil products 1959 1961 extension 47. Road bridge across the river. Khanabad near the village of Alchin, 120 m long 1959 48. The Salang highway through the Hindu Kush mountain range (107,3 km with a 2,7 km tunnel at an altitude of 3300 m) 1964 49. Reconstruction of technical systems of the Salang tunnel 1986 50. Kushka-Herat-Kandahar highway (679 km) with cement-concrete pavement 1965 51. Doshi-Shirkhan Highway (216 km) black-plated 1966 52-54. Three road bridges in the Nangarhar province across the river. Kunar in the areas of Bisuda, Kame, Asmar, 360 m, 230 m and 35 m long, respectively, 1964 55. Kabul-Jabel-us-Seraj highway (68,2 km) 1965 56-57. Two road bridges across the Salang and Gurband rivers, 30 m each, 1961 58. Central repair shops for the repair of road-building equipment in Herate 1966 59. 329 km long Puli-Khumri-Mazar-Sheriff-Shibergan road with black coating 1972 60. The highway from the Puli-Khumri-Shibergan highway to the Khairaton point on the bank of the river. Amu Darya 56 km long 61. Road-rail bridge over the river. Amu Darya 1982 62. Complex facilities transshipment base on the left bank of the river. Amu Darya in the area of ​​Hairatona 63. Kindergarten for 220 children and a nursery for 50 children in Kabul 1970 64. City electric networks in Jalalabad 1969 65-66. City electric networks in years. Mazar-Sheriff and Balkh 1979 67-68. Two microdistricts in Kabul with a total area of ​​90 thousand sq. m 1978 69-74. 6 weather stations and 25 posts in 1974 75-78. 4 weather stations 79. Mother and Baby Center for 110 visits per day in Kabul 1971 80. Geological, geophysical, seismic, and oil and gas drilling operations in Northern Afghanistan 1968-1977 81. Integrated exploration for solid minerals 82. Polytechnic Institute in Kabul for 1200 students in 1968 83. College for 500 students for the training of oil specialists and miners-geologists in Mazar Sheriff 1973 84. Automotive College for 700 students in Kabul 85-92. 8 vocational schools for the training of skilled workers 1982 - 1986 93. Boarding school based on the orphanage in Kabul 1984 94. Bakery in Kabul (elevator with a capacity of 50 thousand tons of grain, two mills - 375 tons of grinding per day, a bakery 70 tons of bakery products per day) 1957 95. Elevator in Puli-Khumri with a capacity of 20 thousand tons of grain 96. Bakery in Kabul with a productivity of 65 tons of bakery products per day 1981 97. Mill in Puli-Khumri with a capacity of 60 tons per day 1982 98. Bakery in Mazar-Sheriff with a productivity of 20 tons of bakery products per day 99. Mill in Mazar-Sheriff with a productivity of 60 tons of flour per day 100. Jalalabad irrigation canal with a node of the head water intake facilities on the river. Kabul 70 km long with a hydroelectric power station with a capacity of 11,5 thousand kW 1965 101-102. Dam "Sarde" with a reservoir with a capacity of 164 mln. cu. m and irrigation networks at a dam for irrigation of 17,7 thousand hectares of land 1968 - 1977. 103-105. Two agricultural diversified farms "Gazibad" with an area of ​​2,9 thousand hectares, "Khalda" with an area of ​​2,8 thousand hectares and irrigation and reclamation preparation of land in the zone of the Jalalabad canal on an area of ​​24 thousand hectares. ha 1969 - 1970 106-108. Three veterinary laboratories to combat infectious animal diseases in the cities. Jalalabad, Mazar Sheriff and Herat 1972 109. Citrus and Olive Processing Plant in Jalalabad 1984 110. Grain Control and Seed Laboratory in Kabul 111-113. 3 soil and agrochemical laboratories in the cities. Kabul, Mazar Sheriff and Jalalabad 114-115. 2 cable cranes in the area of ​​Khorog and Kalaya Humb 1985 - 1986 116. Power transmission line-220 kV "State border of the USSR-Mazar-Sheriff" 1986 117. Integrated Solid Mineral Analysis Laboratory Kabul 1985 118. Elevator with a capacity of 20 thousand tons of grain in Mazar Sheriff 119. 4 truck service station in g. Puli-Humrm 120-121. 2 cotton seed laboratories in the cities. Kabul and Balkh 122. Clinic of the insurance company of civil servants for 600 visits per day in Kabul 123-125. Artificial insemination stations in the cities. Kabul (Binigisar), Mazar-i-Sheriff (Balkh), Jalalabad 126. Institute of Social Sciences under the Central Committee of the PDPA 1986 127. Development of a feasibility study for the feasibility of creating two state farms on the basis of the Sardé irrigation system 128. A power transmission line of 10 kV from the state border in the Kushki region to the station. Turgundi with substation - "- 129. Gas filling station in Kabul with a productivity of 2 thousand tons per year 130. Base of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Hairaton for unloading and storage of special cargoes (on contract terms) 131. Reconstruction of the Turgundi railway station in 1987 132. Restoration of the bridge over the river. Samangan 133. Gas filling station in Hairaton with a capacity of 2 thousand. tons of liquefied gas 134. Looping 50 km of the USSR-Afghanistan gas pipeline 135. Repair and restoration works on main roads 136. Secondary school for 1300 students in Kabul with the teaching of a number of subjects in Russian 137. Installation for the processing of gas condensate into diesel fuel with a processing capacity of 4 thousand Tons per year at the Dzharkuduk gas field 138. The MGB base in the port of Hairaton 139-141. Three concrete pads in Hairaton 142. The company for the progressive assembly of bicycles with a capacity of 15 thousand pieces per year in

What did pin * dos build? despite the fact that they are there longer than us. (rhetorical question)

[CC-18a]

There is a significant difference between the SA (Soviet Army) and the pin * dos army. We had soldiers! and they mercenaries.

[755962]

The time will come to collect stones.

[ward]

I just don’t understand so much ... they have torn themselves off from reality ... or to them on the drum .... this is especially done ... we must try very hard ...

[dodil]

Created, create and will continue to create ...
And they will be creative in this
Entertainment Inc.

[AK-74-1]

There’s nothing to say. Nothing more than death, devastation and hunger. There is nothing worse than seeing your own children hungry and ragged.

[SectoR]

Quote: ward

I just don’t understand so much ... they have come off reality ...

there is now 1391

[dred]

What a pity the Afghan people. How they still endure NATO and sov.

[chukapabra]

Quote: dred

What a pity the Afghan people. How they still endure NATO and sov.

They live in the 12th century and let them live, no one goes to the Papuans to cultivate them. Let them boil in their own boiler, and you can destroy poppy from helicopters. By the way, when the Taliban was poppy almost never grown. They extinguished each other there on the sly, cut the noses of the women, but we don’t see where we’re going to poke our woman’s nose, we can’t even see the ears, so that I wouldn’t overhear them. they may not like it, but they are high. Leaving them alone, there is nothing to help, forcibly will not make happy. We need to block the border with Tajiks and Uzbeks, all the drugs from there

[beech]

17 photos. Such a look, I would not want to meet him in a dark alley !!!

[Ahmar]

harsh and beautiful land and long-suffering people

[darkman70]

Thanks to the author for the impressive photos.
The former Taliban in photo 17 really looks like a "good-natured" and is extremely repentant for his past behavior ..)) It is quite possible that he sometimes goes out at night to do some business of his own.))

[NickitaDembelnulsa]

The horror is simply horror, what’s going on there, I bet that if the civil war in Afghanistan went on without US participation, we would not have seen half of these photographs. Americans are suffering, losing fighters, and it seems like a vain feeling.