An in-flight guide to Afghanistan's sites, dangers

Published March 10, 2010

At the time of writing this column, I had just concluded the second of two back-to-back research trips into Afghanistan.

The first was a DND-sponsored visit to the Canadian Embassy in Kabul and the NATO military base in Kandahar. This was not officially an embedded media tour, and the briefings we received were all to be treated as off-the-record background material.

After departing the...