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Kabul: Inside the Foreigners' Bubble { 28 images } Created 16 Nov 2008

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  • Sunday morning at the pool in the UN compound in central Kabul, Afghanistan.
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  • Kabul City Center, Kabul's first indoor shopping mall at the Sufti  Landmark Hotel, Kabul, Afghanistan.
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  • Foreign resident of Kabul enters garden cafe, closed to ordinary Afghanis by armed security at the front gate, in Kabul's Shahr-i-Nau district, Afghanistan.
    Delano_Kabul_Bubble_003.jpg
  • Transportation bubble.  White SUV vehicle convoy fitted with a long distance antenna, favored by foreign aid organizations, conspicuously navigates city streets of Kabul, Afghanistan.
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  • Pedestrians, bicycles and vehicles pass through gauntlet between walls protecting the Kabul Serena Hotel and the Republican Palace, Kabul, Afghanistan.
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  • Employee makes his way into the lobby of the Kabul Serena Hotel where months later a Taliban-sympathetic terrorists would penetrate and bring spray the lobby in a hail of bullets, Kabul, Afghanistan.  At least six people died in the attack which shattered the illusion of safety inside the foreigners' bubble.
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  • The military bubble meets the expat bubble: A convoy of armoured humvees from the ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) negotiates Pashtunistan Square before entering the walled gauntlet that protects the Kabul Serena Hotel (background center right), Kabul, Afghanistan.
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  • UN vehicle is most vulnerable to terrorist attack while stuck in a traffic jam in central Kabul as pedestrians and bicycles freely thread their way between stopped cars, Afghanistan.
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  • Vehicles carrying foreign nationals, like this one, are most vulnerable to terrorist attack while stuck in a traffic jam in central Kabul because vendors, pedestrians and bicycles freely thread their way between stopped cars, Afghanistan.
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  • Nervous armed private security guard left his vehicle in a traffic jam on a narrow road to determine the cause of the traffic jam because vehicles are most vulnerable to terrorist attack while stuck in traffic, Kabul, Afghanistan.
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  • Bucolic gardens at the Kabul Serena Hotel, where months later a Taliban-sympathetic terrorists would penetrate and bring spray the lobby in a hail of bullets, Kabul, Afghanistan.  At least six people died in the attack which shattered the illusion of safety inside the foreigners' bubble.
    Delano_Kabul_Bubble_011.jpg
  • Elevators Transports guest up to rooms at the Sufti Landmark Hotel from the Kabul City Center, Kabul's first indoor shopping mall, Kabul, Afghanistan.
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  • Man doing callisthenics on a Sunday morning on the peaceful grounds of the UN compound in central Kabul, Afghanistan.
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  • Private Mughal style garden in the main courtyard of the fortress headquarters for foreign NGO, Kabul, Afghanistan.
    Delano_Kabul_Bubble_014.jpg
  • Foreign resident of Kabul using PC in garden of a cafe, closed to ordinary Afghanis by armed security at the front gate, in Kabul's Shahr-i-Nau district, Afghanistan.
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  • Interior of elegant restaurant, which is closed to ordinary Afghanis by armed security at the front gate, Kabul, Afghanistan.
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  • Wartime outside the barred hotel window: Afghan soldier dispatched onto the streets of Kabul seen outside hotel window fitted with bars, Kabul, Afghanistan.
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  • Gardener on the grounds of a cafe, closed to ordinary Afghanis by armed security at the front gate, in Kabul's Shahr-i-Nau district, Afghanistan.
    Delano_Kabul_Bubble_018.jpg
  • Military activity is never far away from the cloistered garden of a cafe, closed to ordinary Afghanis by armed security at the front gate, in Kabul's Shahr-i-Nau district, Afghanistan.
    Delano_Kabul_Bubble_019.jpg
  • Tense exchange when the ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) bubble intersects with Kabulis waiting to cross a busy street outside a new mosque, Kabul, Afghanistan.
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  • Children running along an alleyway lined with walls and barbed wire near the wall compound of a foreign NGO in Karta Parwan district of Kabul, Afghanistan.
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  • Afghani employee sweeps secured, private grounds of the fortress headquarters for foreign NGO, Kabul, Afghanistan.
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  • Old ways of life mingle with signs of new wealth behind high walls in Karta Parwan district of Kabul, Afghanistan.
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  • Truckload of armed policemen outside the police headquarters in central Kabul, Afghanistan.
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  • Alcohol, which is supposed to be banned for sale to Afghanis, offered at one of the few excursions destinations outside the bubble frequented by expats, Ghargha Lake, Afghanistan.
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