posted on Oct, 18 2004 @ 05:45 PM
Debris from nearly a quarter of a century of war in Afghanistan lies strewn across the country. Some, like this armoured vehicle, has graffiti by
soldiers. (Pictures: Soutik Biswas)
Even the remains of the war with the Soviet Union have not been cleared - like this helicopter.
A writer once commented that much of Afghanistan is "like a scene from Mad Max or some futurist post-holocaust movie". This army truck has been
rusting in the desert for years.
A graveyard of Russian tanks on the outskirts of Kabul. Much of the surplus equipment was sold as scrap to dealers in neighbouring Pakistan.
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