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Photos of Another Time: When U.S. troops liberated the U.S. Embassy in Kabul in 2001, they found a scene from the Twilight Zone -- a place stuck in a time warp -- a kitchen uncleaned in 12 years since the Embassy was abandoned in 1989, cigars still in their ashtrays, ashtrays neatly placed on the staff dining room table, prices in the cafeteria from another era, portraits of a long-gone Secretary of State and a DCM's office certainly not quite ready to be re-occupied. And this was before "the wall" so there still was a view of Afghanistan from inside the compound. These photos capture that moment.
Photos (c) 2001, by Richard Mackenzie, Mackenzie Productions.
Before Later Security Needs Stole Their View
The Marines Arrived...
...Along With OGAs
... To Reclaim the US Embassy to Afganistan
To Find a Time Warp
And Prices of Yore, Now Only Wishful Thinking
From the Time George Shultz Was Sec. of State
Twelve Years Took a Toll on the Kitchen
And Files Went Unfiled
Ambassador Dubbs Assassinated
And Memories of Dubbs’ Memorial
Assoc. Producer Amanda Fox Also Arrived
Letting in the Light
Under the Gaze of Former Ambassadors
Files of Yore Awaited
Along With Evaporated Soda
Unappealing Leftovers
The DCM’s Office
And a Dusty Library
...With Orders Intact
New Officials Arrived in 2001
Hoping for Happier Days Ahead
