Posted on 12/20/2001 4:49:17 AM PST by Diogenesis
GOTTA SEE THIS -- OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM 12/20/01
Freedom, Buzkashi. Omar and Usama bin Hiding. More cave booty. Some special forces leave. US Embassy.
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REPORT FROM THEATRE 1 - AFGHANISTAN
WAR FOR ENDURING FREEDOM 12/20/01
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REPORTS:
WASHINGTON, 12/19/01
Osama bin Laden is "either dead in some tunnel, or he's alive," Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said.
"If he's alive, he's either in Afghanistan or he isn't," Rumsfeld said at a Pentagon briefing today. But, the secretary said, the point is "it does not matter. We'll find him one day."
The Al Qaeda leader's demise or capture will not end the threat of global terrorism, because, Rumsfeld said, Bin Laden is not "the entire problem."
"The Al Qaeda is the entire problem, and the other terrorist networks are the problem." Rumsfeld said he believes Bin Laden will be found. "We'll get him," he said.
Asked what the U.S. officials would do if Bin Laden turned up "thumbing his nose at you," Rumsfeld replied, "We will go see about that thumb."
Bin Laden is only one of the terrorist chiefs capable of leading Al Qaeda. The terrorist group has cells in 50 to 60 countries, Rumsfeld said.
"We have made it very clear for a period of months that if these people go somewhere else, we'll go find them," Rumsfeld said.
Bin Laden is One of Many Terrorist Chiefs, Kozaryn
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In Tora Bora, fighters continue to remove tools, weapons, munitions, and booty from the caves.
Near Tora Bora, two things are needed to take out the hiding Al Quada.
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Kabul
In Kabul, the Embassy is cleaned and restored. Materials from the '80s are found.
In Kabul, Afghans guard the Bagram airport
In Kabul at the airport, security is helped by the British Royal Marines ....
..... and the US Army 10th Mountain Division.
In Kabul at the airport, a Russian chopper flys by.
In Kabul, British Royal Engineers and explosive experts help demine the airport.
In Kabul at the airport, finally, at night, prisoner are moved into the detention center.
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In Kandahar, Marines guard the airport.
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In Mazar-e-Sharif, more pics of the Buzkashi event with US special forces.
In Mazar-e-Sharif, US special forces say goodbye to grateful Afghans.
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In Mazar-e-Sharif, backstage at a movie theatre -- open for the first time in four years.
In Mazar-e-Sharif, the French let a humanitarian plane land.
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In Termez, Uzbekistan, residents are informed of U.S. rewards for Al Qaida leaders.
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Meanwhile, on the USS Th. Roosevelt, planes are packed.
On the USS Th. Roosevelt, an E-2C reflects control structures.
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On the USS Kittyhawk, the crew spells "FREEDOM".
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In India
In the Pallanwala Chhamb sector near JammuIndian, and at the Nowshara Sector, Indian soldiers patrol the line of control.
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In New Delhi, the Hindu Nationalist party protests terrorism.
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In Bombay, Nationalist Youth Congress holds an anti-terrorism demonstration.
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END OF TRANSMISSION 12/20/01 .......... K
I especially liked the pictures of the 10th Mountain men with the British Royal Marines. They're all BAD and seem to be enjoying each other. What great looking men. It just killed me to hear of those marines that hit the land mines. Pray, pray all the time.
LOL!
How can that be? His first tour as SecDef was for Ford, who followed Nixon.
Your whole post blessed me. I do pray alla time for our guys (all military, whether male or female = guys to me!). One prayer I pray every day is for God's strongest angels to be with our forces and allies, and that our honchos and soldiers (every branch of the military tree) will have wisdom and protection. Lately I've been asking God to push things together so that Osama and his buds rise to the top and can be picked off.
Handguards and front sight post are a little different, but that could be a model variation thing.
Go ahead,shoot that recoilless rifle,make my day!
Hmmmm.no ammo can on that gun either????
1. JFK, LBJ = Viet Nam
2. Nixon = ended Viet Nam war
3. Nixon impeached; Ford ascends to presidency
4. Ford elevates Rumsfeld to Defense Secretary and he proceeds to do a darn good job of reversing the JFK-LBJ effects on the military.
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