Talk Bronx New York

Kandahar city’s north side, Loya Wala, is about as tough and low-down dirty as it gets. One fellow I know calls it The Bronx.

  I had an opportunity to walk through it the other day, with Canadian troops and an RCMP officer from Surrey, B.C. We arrived at a police substation and were briefed by the Afghan cop in charge, whose rank, I was told later, is equivalent to a Canadian military corporal.

The Taliban are all around, he said. This is their turf. Local residents don’t rat them out because if they do, they will die. The insurgents are the local Mafia and they rule The Bronx. Read more..

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