MANAS TRANSIT CENTRE, Kyrgyzstan (Reuters) - Exhausted after a five-month stint in Afghanistan, Private Radek Michalak landed at the U.S. air base in Kyrgyzstan on his way home, only to find the country on the brink of civil war.
"I was surprised. It's a good country, very nice people. I couldn't believe it," said Michalak, a private with Polish troops fighting the Taliban alongside other NATO forces.
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