From the archives: Army colonel meets with a local leader in Afghanistan, 2012

Charkusa, Afghanistan, March 13, 2012: Col. Brian Mennes, who recently took over an insurgent-rich swath of Kandahar province, meets with Haji Ramitullah, a local leader in the province’s Zhari district. At a shura with U.S. troops, Ramitullah, like many villagers in the area, denounced the recent massacre in adjacent Panjwai district by an American soldier. Read more here.