An Air Traffic Controller from the
Royal Air Force's highly mobile
Tactical Communications Wing -
one of the specialists deployed to
help return Bagram airport to use |
RAF personnel from 5131 Bomb
Disposal Squadron seen at Bagram airfield.
They are normally based at RAF
Wittering in Cambridgeshire |
The young woman in the wheelchair
suffered 45% burns when she fell into
a firepit used for the traditional baking
of bread in Afghanistan. Major Bailey,
an Army doctor serving with 40 Commando
Royal Marines, found her close to death in
a hospital in Bamian and arranged for her
transfer by British helicopter to a
specialist Italian hospital in Kabul. Her
mother and a physiotherapist from the
Italian hospital are also pictured
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Hamid Karzai, head of the Afghan Interim
Authority, welcomed Mr Blair during a visit
to Bagram airfield on 7 January 2002,
the first by a Head of Government since
the AIA took office on 22 December 2001.
(Photo courtesy Jimin Lai, AFP)
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The Prime Minister met members of
the multinational advance military team
at Bagram during his visit on 7 January.
Major General McColl is to his left
(Photo courtesy Jimin Lai, AFP) |
German, Austrian and Dutch officers
deployed with ISAF at Bagram airport
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