It is on the west bank of the Nile River,opposite Luxor.
VOA: special.2011.03.08
And it appears that the Taliban, at least this morning, were operating on the western bankof a river that cuts through this valley of dense fruit orchards while the Afghan army was setting up on the eastern bank.
Then the white barrels, the wooded hills on the far bankof the river, and beyond the hills the other side of Connecticut, the trip to the whaling ship at Mystic Seaport, somewhere out there Cape Cod, the Atlantic Ocean, Africa.