U.S. Army Spc. Michael Leone walks with Afghan kids while providing security on patrol in the Purchaman district in Afghanistan's Farah province, Sept. 26, 2011. Leone is assigned to Company C, 1st Battalion, 182 Infantry Regiment, security force for Provincial Reconstruction Team Farah. The team attends shuras throughout the province to demonstrate support for the shura elders, the district governor and provincial governance. U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airmen Alexandra HoachlanderTaliban Stalks Outskirts Of Calm Afghan City -- Washington Post
MAZAR-E SHARIF, Afghanistan — On the outskirts of one of Afghanistan’s safest cities, the Taliban commander stepped from a copse of plane trees, skirted a cotton field and slipped into the back seat of a car parked on a dirt road. He glanced as a man swathed in white robes drove by slowly on a motorcycle.
“Did you see that man? He is one of my people. He is maintaining security in this area,” said the commander, Mawlavi Hejran. “These gardens are our havens.”
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