Category: War

  • More Apache Helicopter Reuters Photographer Incident Info

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    Yesterday when I reported on the leak of the video footage, for some reason I attached the edited video rather than the full one.  The edited video is more of a “highlights reel”. Here is the full 40 minute unedited video: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is9sxRfU-ik[/youtube] I stayed out of the discussion on the previous post, and I’m going…

  • WikiLeaks Publishes Disturbing U.S. Military Apache Helicopter Footage

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    WikiLeaks has released a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people (July 12, 2007) in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad — including two Reuters news staff. Reuters has been trying to obtain the video through the Freedom of Information Act, without success since the time of the attack.…

  • Mexico Drug Gangs Turn Weapons On Army

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    In coordinated attacks, gunmen in armored cars and equipped with grenade launchers fought army troops this week and attempted to trap some of them in two military bases by cutting off access and blocking highways, a new tactic by Mexico’s organized criminals. At least 18 alleged attackers were killed and one soldier wounded in the…

  • Why The Taliban Suck At Shooting

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    Data showed that while the Taliban can be canny and brave in combat their rifle fire is often remarkably ineffective. The factors at play: Limited knowledge of marksmanship fundamentals A frequent reliance on automatic fire from assault rifles The poor condition of many of those rifles Old and mismatched ammunition that is also in poor…

  • U.S. Marine Corp. Tattoos in Afghanistan

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    Check out the whole set – HERE Quite a few of the pictures show Marines who have tattoos all down their arms.    Judging by the Marine Corps. tattoo policy, June 1, 2010 is the cuttoff in order to be grandfathered in, because the most recent version of the policy strictly prohibits “sleeve” tattoos. I wonder…

  • War Through an iPhone Camera Lens

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    Associated Press photographer David Guttenfelder not only documents the war in Afghanistan with traditional digital cameras, he also used an iPhone camera, carried in his flak jacket pocket, coupled with a Polaroid film filter application to photograph the daily lives of Marines, Afghan soldiers and fellow journalists during the military offensive in Marjah, Afghanistan. Check…