Friend or foe?

September 1 2012 - 3:00am
War zone ... an Afghan soldier (top left) and an Australian counterpart on patrol in the Mirabad Valley; Commander Mohammad Feroz and his men keep watch as troops conduct searches.
War zone ... an Afghan soldier (top left) and an Australian counterpart on patrol in the Mirabad Valley; Commander Mohammad Feroz and his men keep watch as troops conduct searches.

Every night, as the evening call to prayer ends its slow passage across the dusty Afghan army training centre on the outskirts of Kabul, hundreds of Afghan army recruits tread a weary path from the drill fields to the prefabricated barrack houses where they sleep.

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