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Suspect DC Shooting Linked to Terror Group (none / 0)

Tough times in Afghanistan 2001-2021

Embedded With Special Forces in Afghanistan | Black Rifle Coffee Company |

Coffee or Die Magazine's Marty Skovlund Jr. was given exclusive access to embed with a Special Forces team in the mountains of Afghanistan, and accompany them on a combat mission into ISIS-held territory. [Location Nangarhar Valley]
These Green Beret's fit the common tropes associated with Special Forces: beards, long-ish hair, and relaxed attitudes along with a few sleeve tattoos sprinkled in for good measure.
Although they sport ball caps and Glocks in lieu of cowboy hats and six-shooters, they are frontiersman all the same -- charged with taming the Mohmand Valley.
The team operates out of COP Blackfish, an isolated outpost in the Mohmand Valley and only a short walk from where the controversial "MOAB" was dropped last year.

Amnesia and Gaza Genocide

by Oui on Thu Nov 27th, 2025 at 05:40:55 PM EST

Re: Suspect DC Shooting Linked to Terror Group (none / 0)

Suspect in Washington DC national guard shooting had ties to CIA, agency confirms | The Guardian |
Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, worked with agency-backed military units during US war in Afghanistan
The suspected shooter of two national guard members in Washington DC on Wednesday worked with CIA-backed military units during the US war in Afghanistan, the agency has confirmed.
The alleged gunman, identified as Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, came to the US in September 2021 under an Operation Allies Welcome program that gave some Afghans who had worked for the US government entry visas to the US.

U.S. Military Police walk past Afghan refugees at the Village at the Ft. McCoy U.S. Army base on Sept. 30, 2021, in Ft. McCoy, Wis. (Photo: Barbara Davidson/Getty Images)
Lakanwal's ties to the Central Intelligence Agency, which worked alongside US special forces in Afghanistan, were confirmed by the CIA director, John Ratcliffe, to media outlets on Wednesday evening.
The New York Times reported that the shooting suspect had worked for several US government agencies in Afghanistan, including a CIA-backed unit in the southern province of Kandahar, a stronghold of the Taliban.

War Talk: Mad Dogs and Generals and Iraq | Posted by Jeff Huber @BooMan on 24 Oct 2006 |

Amnesia and Gaza Genocide

by Oui on Thu Nov 27th, 2025 at 05:41:33 PM EST
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You Die, You Die ... Worm Dirt ... Atheism (none / 0)

I watched Henry Waxman's hearings today on Pat Tillman and Jessica Lynch | by Martin Longman - 24 April 2007 |

In a transcript of his interview with Brig. Gen. Gary Jones during a November 2004 investigation, Lt. Col. Ralph Kauzlarich said he'd learned Kevin Tillman, Pat's brother and fellow Army Ranger who was a part of the battle the night Pat Tillman died, objected to the presence of a chaplain and the saying of prayers during a repatriation ceremony in Germany before his brother's body was returned to the United States.
Kauzlarich, now a battalion commanding officer at Fort Riley in Kansas, further suggested the Tillman family's unhappiness with the findings of past investigations might be because of the absence of a Christian faith in their lives.
In an interview with ESPN.com, Kauzlarich said: "When you die, I mean, there is supposedly a better life, right? Well, if you are an atheist and you don't believe in anything, if you die, what is there to go to? Nothing. You are worm dirt. So for their son to die for nothing, and now he is no more -- that is pretty hard to get your head around that. So I don't know how an atheist thinks. I can only imagine that that would be pretty tough."

Christian dying on the Afghan battlefield have a pass for heaven?? WTF ... idiocy unlimited.