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More than just al Qai’da to Worry About
Monday, April 29, 2002
The Evening Telegraph

There is currently a $1000 bounty for anyone who hands over a live coalition soldier to the AQT and a $500 reward for a dead one.

Our reporter Andrew Jarret has returned from a trip to Afghanistan where he and nine other journalists spent three days in the company of Royal Marines from 45 Commando at their Camp Gibraltar base in Bagram.

Arriving at Kabul airport leaves you in no doubt that you are entering a theatre of war.

Bombed Russian jets and airliners litter the tarmac and the terminal building itself contains no glass and is peppered with bullet holes.

Although passenger jets from Pakistan have recently recommenced flights to Kabul, our transport from RAF Brize Norton was a C-17 Globemaster heavy lift jet which contained a precious cargo of chocolate desert, malt vinegar and mayonnaise for the mountain-based troops we were going to visit.

The gravity of the situation was immediately hammered home during a series of safety briefings at Kabul.

We were given all too graphic descriptions of the various different ways that we could die if we were not careful.
(More: The Evening Telegraph News Source)
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Dan