In the Land of the Stoner Cops
See a photo essay about the teams of Afghans who risk their lives to disable explosives here. MAJOR JIM CONTRERAS was awaiting his marching orders. Literally. Stuck in Lashkar Gah, the capital of the Afghan province of Helmand, he was supposed to take his troops, along with a unit of an elite Afghan police force known as ANCOP, to secure the area around Nawa, so the people there could vote. It was part of the past year's biggest US offensive against the ... Full Story »
Posted by Kaizar Campwala - via NewsRack (World), NewsRack (Afghanistan), Mother Jones
