Posted on 12/16/2001 5:27:19 AM PST by Diogenesis
GOTTA SEE THIS -- OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM 12/16/01
Taking of Tora Bora, End of Main Afghan Land War, Afghan Freedom, Food Maldistribution
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REPORT FROM THEATRE 1 - AFGHANISTAN
WAR FOR ENDURING FREEDOM 12/16/01
Eastern and Northern Alliances and Special Forces takeTora Bora
Usama missing as Al Qaida fighters killed or taken prisoner in the White Mountains.
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Aboard the USS Antietam, near India,
radar watches the perimeter including the rest of the USS aircraft carrier Carl Vinson's battle group.
USS Antietam and USS Okane are two destroyers of
the USS aircraft carrier Carl Vinson's battle group.
USS Okane, left, USS Antietam, right.
On the USS Th. Roosevelt, control "bubble" shown.
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Target: Final multiprong attack against Usama, at Tora Bora..
Continued Fireworks over Tora Bora supplied by the USAF.
On the ground, pro-US forces and special forces take Tora Bora.
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The final report. Usama missing. Taliban taken or dead.
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Capitalism and freedom in Kabul.
In Kabul, more Afghan Northern Alliance soldiers, former prisoners of war, wait to
receive money after being freed from, or for freeing, the Taliban-prison in Kandahar.
Others ask for payments or land
In Kabul, Afghan soldier and their families.
In Kabul, a public bath area for women
In Kabul, at the tailor.
In Kabul, at the barber shop, previously illegal shaves are seen.
In Kabul, at the bake shop, cookies are made.
In Kabul, at the bazaar, women shop.
In Kabul, at the US Embassy.
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At the Kandahar airport, U.S. Marines remain in control and
create a controlled explosion of the found Taliban rockets.
The debris is a Russian chopper.
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40 miles North of Mazar-e-Sharif, food distribution continues
on the Amu Darya at Hairaton port.
Food distribution in Hairaton.
People are happy to get the food. Each grain is precious.
In Hairaton, woman holds a handmade flyer which instructed her to come and receive food.
In Hairaton, "drive-through" food is bought. Is it really any different from a drive-through in the West?
In Hairaton, a young man listens to a --previously forbidden-- radio.
At the Mazar-e-Sharif airport, the French stand guard and watch repair of the runway.
At the Mazar-e-Sharif airport, NA Afghans also stand guard.
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ELSEWHERE -- Terrorism in India
Blood stains and shattered window from the Indian vice president's convoy
outside the Parliament House complex in New Delhi during the attack.
Caskets of the security officials killed in Parliament in New Delhi, India.
Half a dozen armed men killed 12.
In the Akhnoor sector on the border with Pakistan, in the northern state of Kashmir,
an Indian soldier examines militants after grenade attacks.
The Shiv Sena party, a Hindu fundamentalist group, demands that Pakistan should be declared a terrorist state.
Indian activists from the All India Anti-Terrorist Front agree.
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REPORT FROM THEATRE 2 - NEAR ISRAEL 
ENDURING FREEDOM 12/16/01
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In their attempt to stop terrorism, the Palestinian police use graffiti and red tape.
Here they grafitti the doors of an office of the Islamic association and Hamas.
Here red tape is used.
In Ramallah, meanwhile, undetered by grafitti, gunmen from Arafat's Fatah march.
The Israeli Army responds to the terrorism and searches Beit Hanoun for the source of mortar fire.
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PERP UPDATE .
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Mohammed Afroz on trial in Bombay, India.
He trained as a commercial pilot to carry out attacks in Australia, the United Kingdom
and elsewhere.
Somewhere near Camp Rhino
A C-130 removes Walker.
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END OF TRANSMISSION 12/16/01 .......... K
GOD Bless us in our endeavor to put an end to terrorism and terrorists.
#4 Value Meal and Super Size it, would'ya?
Great job as usual, thanks
COB1 and you other Marines out there in FReeperland - that sailor on board the USS OKANE who carrying a weapon at sling arms sure looks to have an M-14, or maybe it's just my poor eyesight.
What say you?
I will copy some of these pics and send them to Trish.
Semper Fidelis
Norb
Scuttlebutt from Spikey Mikey Isikoff this morning: Walker was being trained as a terrorist by Al Qaeda, thus wasn't just a harmless loser who wandered into the wrong area.
I still want to know how many terrorists were recruited HERE IN THIS COUNTRY. I hope they wring this information out of Walker.
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Leni
The following was read on the Sully and Scooter (Radio KOGO in San Diego) Show on Nov. 17:
Just outside of Ab Gach, in the northwest panhandle of Afghanistan between Tajikstan and Pakistan, November 11, 2001.
Bizarre, It's (expletive) freezing here. I'm sitting on hard, cold dirt between rocks and shrubs at the base of the Hindu Kush mountains along the Dar 'yoi Pomir River watching a hole that leads to a tunnel that leads to a cave. Stake out, my friend, and no pizza delivery for thousands of miles. I also glance at the area around my ass every ten to fifteen seconds to avoid another scorpion sting. I've actually given up battling the chiggers and sand fleas, but them (expletive) scorpions give a jolt like a cattle prod. Hurts like a bastard. The antidote tastes like transmission fluid but God bless the Marine Corps for the five vials of it in my pack.
The one truth the Taliban cannot escape is that, believe it or not, they are human beings, which means they have to eat food and drink water. That requires couriers and that's where an old bounty hunter like me comes in handy. I track he couriers, locate the tunnel entrances and storage facilities, type the info into the handheld, shoot the coordinates up to the satellite link that tells the air commanders where to drop the hardware, we bash some heads for a while, then I track and record the new movement. It's all about intelligence.
We haven't even brought in the snipers yet. These scurrying rats have no idea what they're in for. We are but days away from cutting off supply lines and allowing the eradication to begin. I've said it before and Ill say it again: This country blows, man. It's not even a country. There are no roads, there's no infrastructure, there's no government. This is an inhospitable, rockpit (expletive) ruled by eleventh century warring tribes. There are no jobs here like we know jobs.
Afghanistan offers two ways for a man to support his family: join the opium trade or join the army. That's it. Those are your options. Oh, I forgot, you can also live in a refugee camp and eat plum-sweetened, crushed beetle paste and squirt mud like a goose with stomach flu if that's your idea of a party. But the smell alone of those "tent cities of the walking dead" is enough to hurl you into the poppy fields to cheerfully scrape bulbs for eighteen hours a day.
And let me tell you something else. I've been living with these Tajiks and Uzbeks and Turkmen and even a couple of Pushtins for over a month and a half now and this much I can say for sure: These guys, all of em, are Huns. Actual, living Huns. They LIVE to fight. Its what they do. Its ALL they do. They have no respect for anything, not for their families or for each other or for themselves. They claw at one another as a way of life. They play polo with dead calves and force their five-year-old sons into human cockfights to defend the family honor. Huns, roaming packs of savage, heartless beasts who feed on each other's barbarism. (Expletive) cavemen with AK 47's.
Then again, maybe I'm just cranky. I'm freezing my (expletive) off on this stupid (expletive) hill because my lap warmer is running out of juice and I can't recharge it until the sun comes up in a few hours.
Oh yeah! You like to write letters, right? Do me a favor, Bizarre. Write a letter to CNN and tell Judy and Bernie and that awful, sneering, pompous Aaron Brown to stop calling the Taliban "smart." They are not smart. I suggest CNN invest in a dictionary because the word they are looking for is "cunning." The Taliban are cunning, like jackals and hyenas and wolverines. They are sneaky and ruthless and, when confronted, cowardly. They are hateful, malevolent parasites who create nothing and destroy everything else.
Smart.
Pfft.
Yeah, they're real smart.
They've spent their entire lives reading only one book (and not a very good one, as books go) and consider hygiene and indoor plumbing to be products of the devil. They're still figuring out how to work a Bic lighter. Talking to a Taliban warrior about improving his quality of life is like trying to teach an ape how to hold a pen; eventually he just gets frustrated and sticks you in the eye with it. OK, enough.
Snuffle will be up soon so I have to get back to my hole. Covering my tracks in the snow takes a lot of practice but I'm getting good at it. Please tell my fellow Americans to turn off their TV sets and move on with their lives. The story line you are getting from CNN is utter (expletive) and designed not to deliver truth but rather to keep you glued to the screen through the commercials. We've got this one under control.
The worst thing you guys can do right now is sit around analyzing what we're doing over here because you have no idea what we're doing and, really, you don't want to know. We are your military and we are doing what you sent us here to do. You wanna help? Buy some (expletive) stocks, America.
Saucy Jack, USMC
So unfortunate.... :-(
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