Pics update:  Merkel visits troops on suprise visit  - Kunduz, April 6, 2009. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 A soldier of the German armed forces Bundeswehr listens to his walkie talkie as he patrols near wreckage from the Soviet-Afghan war, outside the German army camp in Kunduz, northern Afghanistan April 16, 2009.

 

 

 Members of the German armed forces Bundeswehr look out of a CH-53GS helicopter as they approach the German camp in Kunduz, on their transer flight from Mazar-e-Sharif, northern Afghanistan April 16, 2009.

 

 Soldiers of German armed forces Bundeswehr assemble ammunition and equipment outside their Dingo armoured personnel carrier before they go onto a patrol outside the German camp in Kunduz, northern Afghanistan April 16, 2009.

 

 

An Afghan contractor stitches name badges for German armed forces Bundeswehr and NATO allied forces at his shop at Camp Marmal, in Mazar-e-Sharif, northern Afghanistan April 15, 2009.