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Lance Corporal Mills, of D Company,
2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment,
at the start of the Paras' first joint
patrol in Kabul with the local police

Private Dawai, of D Company,
2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment,
on patrol in Kabul

Warrant Officer Graham Smith of 216
Air Assault Squadron, with Tiger, newly
adopted mascot of 16 Air Assault Brigade
Headquarters, which acts as ISAF's
operational command centre

Planning for the deployment - Major
Fraser, commanding 216 Signal
Squadron, and Yeoman of Signals
Wilson work on the plans for the
Force headquarters in Kabul

Soldiers from the UK, French, German,
Danish, Dutch and Austrian contingents
form an honour guard for a visit by
Fahim Khan, the Afghan Defence Minister

An Afghan and a British Para provide
security during Fahim Khan's visit

A paratrooper guards an ISAF facility
in Kabul

A soldier from 2 Para, on guard with
a light machine-gun

State of the art equipment: an RAF
Regiment gunner, armed with the new
SA-80A2 and equipped with the
Personal Role Radio

A Danish patrol drives through
the streets of Kabul

An RAF Regiment patrol and their
interpreter talk to local people

ISAF's HQ complex, seen in the
early morning light

A soldier from 7 Regiment Royal Horse
Artillery explains ISAF's mission to interested
local people with the help of an interpreter
and a loudspeaker system

The Canadian Deputy Prime
Minister arrives at Kabul Airport

An RAF Regiment gunner stops to
pay his respects at the graves of
British Servicemen from the
nineteenth century, buried at Kabul's
European cemetery

Lieutenant Oz Muhammed,
2 Para, on patrol in Kabul

An Afghan boy examines the telescopic
sight on a Paratrooper's sniper rifle

An important duty for patrols is the
distribution of leaflets explaining
ISAF's role in supporting the reconstruction
work of the Afghan Interim Authority

Major Fraser, 216 Signal Squadron,
explains the operation of a rebroadcast
system installed on a Kabul hilltop

Lance Corporal Wellburn repairs a
generator in freezing conditions at
the rebroadcast site

The view over Kabul in a snowstorm!

Geoff Hoon talking to soldiers from
the British 216 Signals Squadron

An ISAF vehicle negotiates the
narrow streets of Kabul

Sergeant Amir Khan, Royal Air Force,
a Pashtun speaker, greets an Afghan
elder in his native tongue

A Gurkha paratrooper of 2 PARA

Conflict for over two decades has
left parts of Kabul in ruin

Construction materials for the task
of rebuilding are stockpiled by the road

Maj Gen McColl inspects an old British
rifle, a prized trophy from the Second
Afghan War (1878-80)

An RAF medic with a young Afghan
girl at Kabul hospital. ISAF medics
are helping provide an Accident & Emergency
service in Kabul

Two Royal Marines of 40 Commando
patrol at Bagram airfield

Until the mines can be cleared and
the bridge made usable, a neighbouring
ford is the only safe option

A wreath is laid during the rededication
of the European cemetary in Kabul

A Romanian military policeman from
265 MP Battalion and a female
Lance-Corporal from the UK's 156
Provost Company on joint patrol in Kabul

Another joint UK-Romanian
Military Police patrol

British signallers install a new radio
system at an Afghan police station,
whilst colleagues stand guard

Soldiers from the Royal Anglians at
an Observation Post above Kabul

A Royal Anglian GPMG team
in an Observation Post

Major Alan Wylie, 1st Battalion
Royal Anglian Regiment, talks to
local children in District 7 of Kabul

orporal McHenry, on patrol, is asked
to check a schoolboy's English homework

Dr Hamid Karzai, seen with Major-General
McColl, Brigadier-General von Butler,
and senior Afghan officials during a
recent visit to ISAF headquarters to
be briefed on the progress being made
by ISAF and their Afghan colleagues