Posted on 12/12/2001 3:43:50 AM PST by Diogenesis
GOTTA SEE THIS -- OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM 12/12/01
Milawa Valley, Tora Bora, Freedom, Continued Food Maldistribution, Brave Military
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REPORT FROM THEATRE 1 - AFGHANISTAN
WAR FOR ENDURING FREEDOM 12/12/01
Multiprong final attack on Usama - War at Tora Bora
Milawa Valley Battles into More Caves, Omar's Home Taken, Continued Freedom in Afghanistan
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Somewhere near the North Arabian Sea, on the USS Peleliu,
antiTaliban soldiers recover after surgery.
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Camp Rhino - 15 MEU 26 MEU Resting, Weapons cleaning, and Alert.
Marines Returning from reconnaissance
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Target: Multiprong attack against Usama, located near Tora Bora and Waziri Gorge.
Pro-US forces near Tora Bora, in the White Mountains, continue advancing ridge to ridge
taking caves, munitions, and supplies left behind.
Pro-US fighters in, and looking across, Milawa valley.
After the "daisy cutter" and other bombs, what remains are the skeleton of an Afghan forest.
Near an ex-Al Qaida building and a firing range,
a cave is filled with useful munitions.
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Far North of Kabul, at, Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, a US Air Force C-17 Globemaster III lands relief at the airport.
This large cargo of food supplies was bought by the children of the United States for the freed children of Afghanistan.
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North of Kabul, a soldier stands guard.
Near Rabat, Northern alliance fighters smile victorious.
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In Kabul, Marines hold the US Embassy.
In Kabul, continued serious food distribution problems result from the single-point ticketed system.
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In Kandahar, Omar's House and the Airport are thoroughly taken.
In Kandahar, Mullah Omar's family compound bombed [12/11/01].
Inside Omar's residence, an Afghan soldier surveys the family area, as crowds look into his bedroom.
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Somewhere near Kandahar airpport, the SAS arrives making this a D notice situation.
At Kandahar airport, Afghan fighters loyal to Gul Agha arrive.
Some of the Afghan fighters loyal to Gul Agha take control of the governor's mansion.
At Kandahar airport, a fighter loyal to Hamid Karzi also arrives. Ordnance lies on the ground.
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In Herat : Art Flourishes with Poetry reading as just-freed ex-prisoners Arrive
In Herat, a Poetry reading to the Literature Society, the first since the demise of the Taliban.
In Herat : Return of 800 Prisoners held by the Taliban until Kandahar fell.
Released 2 days ago from the Kandahar prison,
a Northern Alliance man, held for five years, now receives a flower.
Deputy Governor Deputy of Herat, Haj Mirabdolkhalegh,
shakes hands with a Northern Alliance fighter returning to Herat after his liberation from a Kandahar Taliban prison
by the United States of America and its allies.
Another freed-prisoner is awarded money, perhaps as compensation after his 4 year imprisonment.
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In Mazar-e-Sharif, a Northern Alliance warrior kicks a fallen Taliban brought to justice.
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REPORT FROM THEATRE 2 - NEAR ISRAEL 
ENDURING FREEDOM 12/12/01
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Near south Gaza, home owner inspects mortar shell damage,
which wounded two children at the Israeli settlement of Neve Dekalim [southern Gaza].
Palestinian police inspect retaliation damage to their police post hit by missiles
fired by Israeli helicopter gunships near Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza following the mortar shell damage in Gaza.
Vigilant Israeli sentry at the Kalandia checkpoint between Ramallah and Jerusalem.
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WAR FOR ENDURING FREEDOM
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Remember why we are there:
1) TODAY:
2) FOR ENDURING FREEDOM:
So far, some of those freed by the United States of America and its allies.
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END OF TRANSMISSION 12/12/01 .......... K
Ammo in sealed metal cans.
Re: Picture number 4, Can that be one of those short barrelled shotguns that the Supreme Court could not take judicial notice of as being of military/militia utility or of being issued to a military force? Maybe the good Justices think the Marines are not a military force. :)(Marines were using not so very different shotguns down in Central Amercia about the time the law in question was written back in the 1930s)
Probably not slugs, but rather buckshot. That is unless it's to be used to blow off door hinges and such, but then it would probably have a longer barrel. Marines have long favored the shotgun as a weapon of war in close quarters. Maybe this guy is intending to do a little cave exploration and clearing?
Actually I think it does, 3 maybe 5 if the two on top aren't just attachment holes, but none are in the black. Having some holes shows that some Taliwacker or Al-Quesy at least shot at it, or tried to at any rate.
Probably 7.62X39 for their AKs, unless they've got some of the newer ones, in which case 5.45x39. I think bin Laden's "Krinkov" model maybe be chambered for the latter. Maybe 7.62X54R for the machine guns. Anything larger would likely be packaged differently. Those are all Russian/Soviet/Russian calibers, with the 7.62X54R dating back to the days of the Czars, the 7.62X39 dating to just after WW-II, and being something of a knockoff of the 7.92 Kurtz that the German's developed for the first true Assault Rifle. 5.45X39 came out just before the Soviet involment in Afghanistan, and was not widely deployed even their. They use the 7.62X54R (rimmed case) in their sniper rifles too, but you wouldn't have that much ammo for snipers... well maybe for Arab ones who can't hit anything anyway.
Wish I could answer your request for help but I don't have the needed skills.
You make good points El Gato!
Sara Brady can kiss my a$$!
There are over 35,000 flight per day. That number is more than the total employees of the FBI and Secret Service put together. The cost will be enormous to fund these marshalls.
Simple solution:
Allow the flight crew to arm themselves. We trust them with our lives to fly us from point A to point B, but we don't trust them to defend us with weapons? What sick/twisted logic is this?
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