U.S. special envoy James Dobbins (R) addresses reporters during a flag
raising ceremnoy in U.S. embassy in Kabul December 17, 2001. The United
States re-established a diplomatic presence in the Afghan capital,
Kabul, on Monday for the first time since its diplomats fled the city
shortly before the end of the Soviet occupation in 1989. On a cold and
drizzly afternoon, two U.S. Marines hoisted the same Stars and Stripes
on the same flagpole from which it was taken down on January 30, 1989.
REUTERS/Damir Sagolj

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