Posted AT 12:21 PM EDT on 29/11/05
Canadians leave Camp Julien
Ottawa — It was once a verdant garden nestled between two palaces, but then it became a battlefield, the garden was reduced to dust and the palaces were turned to ruin.
In the spring of 2003, Canadian military engineers moved onto the site on the southwest edge of Kabul, levelled it, gravelled it and began turning it into Camp Julien, the envy of every military in Afghanistan.
On Tuesday, the last of the Canadians left.
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