Visiting strange countries whose governments engage in, for my views, controversial activities, seems to be something I have spent a lot of time doing lately. After the illegal occupant Israel, and Russia at bloody civil war, the turn came to the greatest source of evil on this earth in these times. To make it worse, my destination turned out to be the southern state of Texas - the place where a lot of this evil came from, in the form of Bushes, for example ...

It is always interesting to observe what this kind of countries look like on the inside. While their governments rampage through the rest of the world, imposing their ruthless will on helpless people in poor countries, largely ignored by the media of the Western world, what do their own citizens think of this? Are they at all aware of it?

Airport security escapades part 1

"... once great cities whose centers have largely rotted out ..."

The 'great victims' of 'inexplicable evil'

Some additonal photographs

Airport security escapades part 2

Everything written by Tinet Elmgren in September 2002, and all pictures taken by Tinet Elmgren & Alexandre Tchekhovskoi.