Tillerson in Kabul? Two Photos Lead to Many Questions
But the version released by Mr. Ghani’s office erased the large digital clock showing “Zulu time” — the military term for Coordinated Universal Time —
and a red fire alarm behind Mr. Tillerson and Mr. Ghani, in what would be a giveaway that it was an American military facility.
Soon after a two-hour secret visit to Afghanistan by Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson on Monday was publicly disclosed, the American Embassy
and the office of President Ashraf Ghani made statements about their productive meeting in Kabul.
U. S. State Department
Office of the President of Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan — It was Kabul and it wasn’t Kabul.
The problem is that the meeting was not in Kabul, but in a windowless room in
Bagram, the heavily fortified American military base a 90-minute drive away.
