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Article: Shootout with Taleban
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- The Press
- Article date:
- October 10, 2009
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In all its years in Afghanistan, the Kiwi provincial
reconstruction team has only once had to fire its weapons in self-
defence. The 'contact' with the enemy took place in the restive
northeast town of Du Abe in June, when Taleban fighters attacked
with rocket-propelled grenades. Press reporter ALEX van WEL went
into the badlands of Bamiyan to find out what happened.
Few Hollywood producers would be able to create a scene to rival
the setting of Du Abe. The town sits unperturbed in a fertile
valley, a swiftly flowing river separating the transient and filthy
bazaar from the genteel homes on the opposite bank. All around are
the sheer, dry and uninviting mountains that define Afghanistan - ...