Tag: Afghanistan

  • Behind Taliban Lines – PBS Frontline

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    PBS Frontline documentaries are usually very well done.  This looks like no exception. An Afghan journalist’s extraordinary 10 days living and filming with an insurgent cell allied with Al Qaeda to sabotage a key U.S./NATO supply route:  

  • Taliban Snipers in Marja Afghanistan

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    For several days, and in several places, competent and deliberate marksmen fired on Marine patrols. A video today presents one such event, a firefight between the Marines of Kilo Company, Third Battalion, Sixth Marines, and Taliban fighters, including at least one Taliban gunman the Marines considered to be a sniper. Full Story – HERE Very…

  • Guns For Hire – Afghanistan

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    This aired a couple of years ago on Skyone in the UK.  It’s about private military companies in Afghanistan: [googlevideo]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7363637773800999021[/googlevideo] I haven’t watched it yet, but It looks promising. Anyone that has seen it have any comments?

  • Training the Afghan Border Police

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    Since we are on the topic of the Afghans… Some jumping jacks: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdggP7rw0mg[/youtube] Looks like they are having a good time. Push ups: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ThUxg1hrrU[/youtube] The push ups video is especially priceless… “That was the worm man…. he was doing the worm” LOL Hat Tip: moi

  • More On Afghan Marksmanship

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    For several minutes they emptied their magazines into the darkness. It developed into a roaring crescendo of fire. What they were shooting at, no one could say. The Americans with night-vision equipment saw nothing. It took several minutes of shouting to get the firing to stop, and then it might have stopped because the Afghans…

  • The Distant Executioner – Vanity Fair

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    Another very well written article from Vanity Fair.  I started keeping an eye on their website ever since their article on Erik Prince of Xe (Blackwater) back in December of last year. You shoot one man, you terrify a thousand. That was the theory outside of Afghanistan. Through generations of warfare, it’s what sniping was…