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Kabul remembered

Posted on August 16, 2021 in the Blog category

With the Taliban taking power in Kabul, I share this  memory of a visit to the presidential palace with other British journalists and Tony Blair in November 2006.  We were visiting the region on the fifth anniversary of the liberation of Kabul from Taliban control. The visit had begun with an abrupt descent to Kabul airport in a Hercules transport to diminish the risk of   being hit by hostile ground to air fire.  On landing, the rear access to the military aircraft opened like the mouth of a whale and …

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