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Afghanistan?

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about 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Afghanistan?
Profile pic. Should you be interested. Lakhsen, on the right, lost touch with him.
Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's now living in Agadez, Niger. More focused on his animals now as tourism has dried up. Is active with a co-op promoting local goods, leather work and bijouterie, into Europe. 
20/5/20

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about 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Not wanting to argue the pros and cons of NZ's presence in Afghanistan, I wonder if anyone else is as puzzled as I am but the relative absence of news coverage of that presence?  New Zealand is, I guess, at war and our media, be that TV, radio or newspapers, has very little coverage.
A new arrival to NZ would probably have no idea we were present there.

As far as I know no NZ media outlet has any kind of presence in Afghanistan.



Profile pic. Should you be interested. Lakhsen, on the right, lost touch with him.
Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's now living in Agadez, Niger. More focused on his animals now as tourism has dried up. Is active with a co-op promoting local goods, leather work and bijouterie, into Europe. 
20/5/20

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about 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
the SAS are our only presence there aren't they? Which usually the govt will barely go beyond confirming let alone reporting on, may be the answer. Although the herald did have some coverage this morning actually

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about 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
NZ still has the Provincial Reconstruction Team there... 
As well as having the SAS in Kabul, about 140 New Zealand Defence Force personnel are leading the provincial reconstruction team in Bamyan province, which will be slowly replaced by civilian development staff.
Profile pic. Should you be interested. Lakhsen, on the right, lost touch with him.
Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's now living in Agadez, Niger. More focused on his animals now as tourism has dried up. Is active with a co-op promoting local goods, leather work and bijouterie, into Europe. 
20/5/20

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about 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
And Apiata of course.  Plenty of coverage of his presence there.

I let my guitar speak for me

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about 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Pretty much a one off though in terms of overall coverage, don't you think?
Profile pic. Should you be interested. Lakhsen, on the right, lost touch with him.
Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's now living in Agadez, Niger. More focused on his animals now as tourism has dried up. Is active with a co-op promoting local goods, leather work and bijouterie, into Europe. 
20/5/20

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about 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Twitter account on stuff.  Tis a piss-take tho.

I let my guitar speak for me

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about 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
there has been adequate coverage of our reconstruction team over thiere i think
 
theres only so many times you can show a story of them building a school though so maybe they just recap it every month or so im not sure
 
but can understand why there is little coverage of the sas work in afghanistan
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