Northern Alliance soldiers stand in front of T-55 Russian tanks in a
military base in the suburbs of capital Kabul on January 10, 2002.
Grimy Afghan mechanics and unarmed soldiers scurried arround a former
Siviet military base in Kabul on Thursday preparing a fleet of battered
Russian-made tanks to withdraw from Kabul in a plan to demilitarise the
city. REUTERS/Oleg Popov

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