Last Days of the Taliban - Afghanistan

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if only it were true

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For some reason, I couldn't post an explanation of this photo along with the photo itself.

Photo taken with Sony D770 in Spin Boldak, Afghanistan (Nov. 2001)

Although the Taliban banned photographs, they were delighted with the digital image of themselves and before this sequence was finished, I had dozens of shots.

They wanted an image of themselves, armed and dangerous, as a last record of their notoriety.

These fellows were remarkably polite.

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