US Solders In Afghanistan

NURISTAN AFGHANISTAN - AUGUST 26: A local Nuristani elder listens as the local Afghan National Police chief addresses the district shura or council of elders, on security issues and the US Army's presence in Kamdesh, Nuristan August 26, 2006, eastern Afghanistan. The district shura requested the meeting with US Army officers following an armed attack on a nearby village elder with two local policemen being killed and a heavy rocket attack on the newly constructed Kamdesh Forward Operating Base (FOB). The 10th Mtn Division has been in Kamdesh since July 2006 employing hundreds of local Nuristanis on construction and road building projects. Two topics concern the district elders: Afghan militants kidnapping local officials who work with the American forces and the nearby US Army base attracting frequent rifle and rocket fire from the surrounding high ridges launched by Taliban and forces aligned with Gulbaddin Hekmatyar, a former mujihideen commander.(Photo by Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images)