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08-29-2010, 07:11 AM
Guttenbergs lightning visit to Afghanistan
1. Visit to the battlefield






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Guttenberg (CSU, right) sits on Sunday in a helicopter on the way to Kunduz
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29.08.2010-12: 48 PM
By Julian Reichelt (currently in Afghanistan)

It was a historical visit under strictest security! For the first time a politician accompanied out Sunday his soldiers in Afghanistan at the front, well guarded Feldlagern!
Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg (38, CSU) in northern Afghanistan of Baghlan province, where in April, four German soldiers lost their lives. Guttenberg: "only in this way our soldiers will make significantly, the service is hard and unforgiving, the."



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By CH-53 helicopter Guttenberg flew in the front, situated on a dusty Hill high above a Green River Valley. The Minister is bullet-proof vest, helmet because Taliban fighters have entrenched in flat end can be seen from this hill. "We rarely see them", says one of Rotterdam that are stationed here. "But they observe us day and night." "You have us always."
Bundestag President Norbert Lammert (CDU), who accompanied Guttenberg after Afghanistan, flew Meanwhile continue to Kabul. There he wanted to meet with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and US General David Petraeus.
Guttenberg at the front! Sniper and machine gun positions ensure the Minister while the Commander tells him the terrain. "We have created a space us where we reasonably freely and safely can move." "But only a few kilometres further have the Taliban control."
Rows of trees, hedges, ditches and high grass offer here perfect coverage for the raids of the Taliban. Repeatedly Bundeswehr soldiers suffered in recent weeks. Guttenberg: "I am glad and grateful that we had to complain no losses since April." "The view here is so deceptively peaceful and green you can quickly forget that really is a front line."
The German soldiers here make the concept in Baghlan province, which will bring yet the turn in the tenth year of the Afghanistan war. Camping close to the Afghan people, patrol daily through the villages, talk to people - and try to train the Afghan national army, the one day to ensure even safety.
Guttenberg: "we have dreamed many unrealistic goals for Afghanistan us in the past." "But remains an objective: a terrorist threat to our security can never assume from this country." The biggest problem of the strategy of the West: Hard to her corruption in Afghanistan! From the simple Dorfpolizisten up to the President of the country are countless officials entangled in dark shops and activities, cash protection and bribes, provide their closest confidants and their families with the aid millions of the West.
"It's incredibly hard to convince that they can trust their army and their police simple Afghans," says an altered in the small outpost in Baghlan province. "And in many cases you can not trust them." Guttenberg also tried to convince the soldiers of his reform plans: "You must worry, there is no German armed forces coming from the use of home." "There will be still there must be still, and we want to make is prepared for the stakes of the future."