Posted on 01/11/2014 2:28:38 PM PST by Zhang Fei
Nearly a decade after Mohammad Gulab and his fellow villagers rescued and protected wounded Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell, they remain Taliban targetsbut theyve never regretted their kindness.
Nearly eight-and-a-half years after Mohammad Gulab and his fellow villagers harbored and saved the life of a gravely wounded U.S. Navy SEAL, they say they are still proud of their courageous action and would do it again in spite of the disappointments and troubles that have followed. In the face of point-blank Taliban threats to overrun the small village of Sabray in remote Kunar Province, along the porous and mountainous frontier with Pakistan, the villagers bravely protected, gave first aid to, fed, and clothed Marcus Luttrell, the wounded Special Warfare Operator, the only survivor of a four-man SEAL patrol.
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Lets start there. And then clean out the Taliban. Come on you strategery mongers of Washington! Get with it Obama!!/S
I was there for two years as a contractor. They are capable of kindness at times but for the most part are liars, beggars and thieves. Of course they smelled a payday - I would expect the same for risking my life and my family’s.
That area is serious Indian country. Many of the local Afghani’s in Kunar hate the Pakistani’s (i.e. Taliban), who come from the Paki tribal area’s and attempt to destroy what little infrastructure they have(the just got electricity). They hate the Arabs who come the even worse than the Paki’s. The Arabs treat the locals like they are pieces of crap.
Book is really good, looking forward to the movie
yes it did
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