The
Darulaman Palace - a seemingly good symbol of current Afghanistan. Once beautiful,
now destroyed and will remain that way for some time to come.
Darulaman Palace - Originally
Darulaman Palace - July
2003
The
security guard wouldn't let us in, claiming that four weeks previously, two
Taliban had laid a mine at the entrance and had blown themselves up. We thought
he just wanted money, but my Afghani/American friend convinced him to let us
in - he accompanied us.
We
went in, and yes, at the entrance was the evidence of the explosion (which was
laid under a tile) with pock-marked walls and pieces of cloth embedded in the
walls. I didn't want to go in after that, but followed in their footsteps (and
at greater than six metres range...).
Inside the Darulaman Palace
...there
is no moral to the story, it's just a bunch of stuff that happened...
