Sen. Cory Booker calls for action in online War vs ISIS

Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., backed his colleague’s appeal. “Look at their fancy memes compared to what we’re not doing,” Booker said, displaying examples of jihadist online postings.

“There’s an obvious piece of legislation that we need to start working on,” Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wisc., said during a Homeland Security Committee hearing on “Jihad 2.0“.
“Let’s face it: We invented the Internet. We invented the social network sites. We’ve got Hollywood. We’ve got the capabilities… to blow these guys out of the water from the standpoint of communications.”

Booker is a prolific user of Twitter and a former viral sensation in his own right, as mayor of Newark. He said he knows “something about memes,” and added that “there are easy tactics how to get more voice, virality to messaging that we’re not using as a government.”
Instead, he lamented, the U.S. is spending “millions and millions of dollars on old school forms of media,” like Voice of America.

Sen. Cory Booker,, R-N.H., said that the private sector could play a greater role working with the government in any counter-recruitment initiative.
Here’s a clip from the hearing:
Also at the hearing, Peter Bergen, a senior New America Foundation national security expert, testified in favor of more lenient treatment for would-be fighters who reverse course before fully committing themselves.

He noted that Muslim families who see a son or daughter radicalizing online are deterred from reporting the matter to the FBI out of fear that he or she will be thrown in jail for more than a decade.
 “If somebody is not actually indicted for a potential act of terrorism, but merely for trying to go to Syria, we should be thinking about off-ramps that aren’t 15 years in prisons,” Bergen said.
Sam Sacks is a writer and reporter living in Washington, D.C. He is the co-founder of the watchdog 

news site The District Sentinel. 
Photo: Screengrab of Cory Booker at Senate hearing

Email the author: samsacks@districtsentinel.com

Kurds clash with Islamic Road Show and Anjem Choudary runs scared to his Mum

This is excellent. Seems like everyday the Kurds do something new to win our admiration. It sick that Britain allows these ISIS supporting Islamist to spread their BS in the streets. Thankfully the Kurdish peopel have doen what we all should have done long ago. - Ian Bach

Members of the Kurdish community clashed with demonstrators at an Islamic Roadshow stall in High Road, Wood Green, yesterday at around 5pm.

Police were called to the town cente as arguments broke out between the two groups when the Kurdish people walked through Wood Green to the Kurdish Community Centre as part of Newroz - the traditional Iranian new year celebration.

Muslim activist Anjem Choudary was among groups hosting the Islamic Roadshow stall, who were heard promoting Sharia Law and urging Muslims not to vote while handing out leaflets from their tent outside Boots.

Video footage, filmed by a boy who appears to have been above The Mall shopping centre at the time, shows police separating demonstrators, while racially motivated slurs can be heard coming from the crowds.

Shoppers looked on as several police cars and a riot van arrived on scene, pushing the Kurdish community back down the high street away from The Mall, while men and women fled from the roadshow stand.

Police can confirm that no arrests were made during the incident and the Kurdish prosession arrived at the community centre at 6.11pm.

The Drone Wars in Iraq and Syria

by Ian Bach   3-21-15
The Wars in Iraq and Syria have been the first Wars that the enemy is also using drones in. So far it seems like everyone has drones. Jabhat al-Nusra has used them in Syria, the FSA has them in Aleppo and Damascus, ISIS has used them in Syria and Iraq, Iraqi Shia militias have Iranian ones, Iranians have theirs, and the U.S. of course has them. It seems like the only people without drones are the Kurds. 

The western media and the blogger community has fell in love with the Kurds and their struggle. Yet the governments of the West have not properly backed them. The governments in the Middle East are not about to arm the Kurds for various reasons most of which is their own fears. 

The U.S. gives weapons and ammo directly to the Iraqi Gov and will not give them directly to the Kurds. Meanwhile Iraq Gov is dragging their feet in giving those arms and ammo to the Kurds. The Germans, Danish and Italians have supplied limited amounts of light and medium weapons and ammo, and they are also offering training to the Kurdish forces, but it is not nearly enough when you consider the amount of work the Kurds have done in the fight against the #Daeshbags of the so called (rolls eyes) Islamic State. - Ian Bach

Here is some excerpts of a few News Articles regarding Drones:
From "War is Boring"

A Bunch of Iranian Drones Have Crashed in Iraq

"Shortly after Mosul fell to Islamic State forces in June 2014, Iran began flying Ababil-3 UAVs out of Baghdad’s Al Rasheed air base in order to track the jihadists, according to The New York Times."
Iran’s Drones Are Back in Iraq
"In recent years Iran’s drones have buzzed into action over Israel, Syria and Lebanon. And now Iranian drones are returning to the scene of their birth—the skies of Iraq, where Tehran’s flying robots saw their combat debut during the 198os Iran-Iraq war."
"Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps is deploying the Mohajer-4 surveillance drone and its cousins—descendants of the country’s first Mohajer-1—in its bid to halt Islamic State jihadists in Iraq."
Iran Has a Dogfighting Drone

"Hatami told the assembled press that the air-defense Mohajer can shoot down enemy fighter jets, helicopters and even cruise missiles. But a closer look at the air-to-air drone reveals that it’s not quite the engineering marvel the good general would have you believe."

The Guardian - US drone shot down by Syrian Gov over Latakia a beach resort city relatively untouched by the War.

"Syria’s state news agency, SANA, has published a video purportedly showing the wreckage of a “hostile” surveillance plane and said it was shot down in the same area where the Pentagon confirmed contact was lost with a Predator drone."

"SANA said the Syrian military had downed the plane in northern Latakia and the authorities were conducting an investigation to determine who it belonged to."

"In a statement on Tuesday, the Pentagon said it had lost contact with an unarmed Predator drone but could not confirm whether it was shot down."

US Says It Struck Islamic State Drone in Iraq

"Associated Press | Mar 19, 2015

WASHINGTON — The U.S. military says it bombed an Islamic State drone aircraft in Iraq that was being used for battlefield surveillance."

"A spokesman for the U.S. military command in charge of the conflict against the Islamic State said Wednesday that the drone was a small, unarmed hand-held type of the sort that can be purchased commercially."

"The spokesman, Maj. Kim Michelsen, said that Islamic State fighters had been flying the drone for a short time before placing it in a vehicle. A U.S. airstrike hit the vehicle near the city of Fallujah in western Iraq. He said the drone was targeted because it was being used for surveillance along IS front lines."

It seems like Unmanned Vehicles UAV's / Drones are here to stay and it is not just the USA using them anymore the cat is out of the bag and what is next is anyones guess - I.B.

Another False Flag attack in Syria

The rebels seem to do the False Flag ops like clockwork. Every time there is talks on Syria they use it to try and manipulate the talks, the american public and world views. The Syrian Observatory for human rights is always the mouth piece that announces the false flag attacks and blames the Syrian Government. But for those of us watching the conflict close it is another headache and frustration that the west still relies on SOHR not as a rebel supported propaganda source on info, but instead the Western MSMS reports it almost as if it was fact and undisputed. The western news is still reporting Syria as  a civil War when it is clear this is a foreign backed, and manned insurgency of Sunni Arabs who want to make Syria an Islamic State with Sharia Law.,

Here is the CBS article - I left few messages and there was others who echoed what I have been saying about SOHR and how these are obvious false flag ops.

Video purports to show victims of Syrian gas attack

A group monitoring the civil war in Syria posted a video online that purports to show new evidence the country is carrying out poison gas attacks.

CBS News cannot confirm the use of chemical weapons, but President Obama has said it would cross a "red line," reports CBS News correspondent Clarissa Ward.

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Chemical weapons attack in Syria

According to activists in Syria, the attack took place in the village of Sarmin in Idlib Province, on the other side of the Turkish-Syrian border.

Videos uploaded by medics inside Syria appear to show the aftermath of a chlorine gas attack -- young children coughing and struggling to breathe. Activists inside the country say six people were killed including a man, his wife and their three children.

Over the past year, there have been multiple reports of the Assad regime using chlorine gas in these so-called barrel bombs -- crudely made bombs stuffed with explosives and shrapnel or chlorine and dropped onto civilian areas.

In northern Iraq, casualties as Kurds push back Islamic State (+video)

Backed by US-led airstrikes, Kurdish fighters are pushing south of the Iraqi city of Kirkuk into territory held by the self-proclaimed Islamic State, underscoring new momentum in the fight. 

By Scott Peterson, Staff writer MARCH 16, 2015

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TAL AL-WARD DISTRICT, IRAQ — Bulldozers with steel plates welded over their cockpits to thwart snipers are digging earth berms and trenches here, creating the new front lines of northern Iraq. 

Kurdish peshmerga units began a week ago pushing beyond a line 20 miles southwest of the oil city of Kirkuk, which Kurds have held since last summer when Sunni militants swept into Iraq from Syria. The Kurdish fighters' aim is to squeeze the self-styled Islamic State between them and a parallel offensive by the Iraqi Army and allied Shiite militia to the south that has encircled Tikrit.

The multi-pronged fight is a major test for reconstituted Iraqi forces. When IS jihadists seized the northern city of Mosul last year, entire Iraqi Army divisions disintegrated. Today, the momentum appears to have shifted: US officials estimate that IS today has lost 25 percent of the territory—nearly 5,000 square miles—it held at its peak last August, when it declared an Islamic caliphate.

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Kurdish forces, aided by US-led airstrikes, say they are making far faster progress than they expected – up to 15 miles in some places – across the flat ground carpeted with spring green. They've been capturing villages laced with booby-traps and car bombs.

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 “They are fighting hard and have readiness. We have martyrs and wounded, and this is a real sign,” says Wasta Rasul, the Kurdish commander of southern operations. IS forces “are retreating and they are not the same IS they used to be. I think in the next few days IS will not exist in the Kirkuk area.”

The Kurds want to push IS out of artillery range of oil and gas installations here, and squeeze them between Tikrit and Kirkuk. Using binoculars and targeting scopes from the top of the freshly dug earth berms, Kurdish fighters watch the nearby village of Tal al-Ward. Wounded peshmerga from the fight—some of them screaming—are driven quickly by in the back of trucks.

About 50 wounded are brought to Kirkuk hospital by dusk on this day alone, and an unspecified number of dead. One Humveelimps by, bulletproof windows impacted by rifle shots, tires shredded by a roadside bomb. Another Humvee is towed, its tire rubber flapping uselessly in the dirt. The sound of US warplanes circling high above lasts for hours.

“If the airplanes don’t support us, we can’t advance,” says one Kurdish fighter, sharing a common refrain. “They are retreating...we are weakening them,” says Lt. Col. Bakr Ahmad, who juggles a radio and mobile phone, and is tasked with calling in coalition airstrikes. “We don’t forget the role of the alliance—those planes make a big difference,” he says. “When I need them I ask and they do it.”

From a state to a terror group

Last summer Kurdish fighters set up defensive lines southwest of the strategic oil town of Kirkuk, near the Lower Zab canal. Eight months ago “[IS] were attacking us, now we are attacking them,” Fuad Hussein, chief of staff to the president of the Kurdistan Regional Government, told a forum held last week in northern city of Sulaymaniyah. “If the strategy is to weaken them, they are weaker. If the strategy is to turn them from a state to [only] a terrorist organization, we are on the path.”

Yet without defeating IS in Syria, warns Mr. Hussein, the jihadis will keep coming back to Iraq. Already some 20,000 foreign fighters from 90 different countries have joined IS in Syria and Iraq, “many of them" seeking suicide operations, said Brett McGurk, the US Deputy Assistant Secretary for Iran and Iraq, speaking at the same forum. The map of anti-IS forces advances show “how the tide is slowly starting to turn.”

Kurdish forces have a “very solid defense line” and US-led airstrikes give “great confidence” to the peshmerga as they advance, agrees Michael Knights of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

Yet IS remains potent, despite an estimated death toll from US-led airstrikes of 6,000, as of a few months ago. Within a week recently the group launched 10 major attacks with 100 to 200 fighters each. Each attack formation was decimated by airstrikes and ground forces. “The refreshment of this movement is higher than anyone thinks, and as a result there is no military solution," warns Mr. Knights. 

Secret tunnels and suicide attacks

IS has a few tricks up its military sleeve. Several bodies still rot amid the rubble of Dur al-Kahraba village, which Kurds took control of last week. Three houses down from a small mosque the Kurds found a surprise: an 8-by-8-foot hole dug in the living room of a house that leads into a 150-yard-tunnel that nearly reaches Kurdish trenches. All other rooms were full of dirt, in a bid to hide the excavation from view.

“This is IS, this is how they were thinking,” says Shukur Abbas, who in charge of the bulldozers building trenches and flattening recaptured villages. 

At night in Kirkuk at the hospital, the emergency entrance is a constant hive of activity, as casualties are driven in and relatives arrive, often in tears. 

Fadhil “Hama Jaff” was wounded in the blast of a suicide car bomb, as his Kurdish unit—buoyed by days of swift progress—attacked an IS-controlled village that morning. “They were fighting hard,” says Mr. Fadhil, speaking from his hospital bed. “All at once they stopped shooting at us, we thought they were retreating. We advanced and they sent an SUV—we were surprised.”

Another Kurdish fighter, Bakhtiar Jabar, jumped out of the Humvee and fired his heavy machine gun at the oncoming vehicle, but it was armored and the bullets had no effect.

Mr. Jabar was struck with shrapnel in his side, and that night in the intensive care ward said repeatedly: “I am in pain. I am in pain.” Such events are no surprise to commander Rasul. “Scientifically, I haven’t seen anything special about their [IS] fighting ability,” he says. “They are here only for suicide.”

Kurdish forces retake Kirkuk villages after eight-months of IS control

Reuters

#Daeshbags using chlorine gas in roadside bombs & traps CONFIRMED

Weird I was just writing about this but this is actual video showing the #Daeshbags roadside bomb being detonated by bomb squad. So it is a interesting and short video. I.B.

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Click here for the BBC short Video12 March 2015 Last updated at 05:51 GMT

Iraqi officials have shown the BBC videos that they say confirm Islamic State militants are using chlorine gas in some crude home-made bombs.

Chemical weapons experts believe that the use of chlorine is intended to have a psychological impact on Iraqi soldiers and civilians.

chlorine gas used by ISIS in Iraq

Iran unveils replica of the U.S. stealth drone that they captured in 2011

The above video is footage of Iran's replica of the stealth U.S. drone that they captured in December 2011. Iran has reverse engineered the Drone and is now flying the replica Drone. 

Video of captured U.S. stealth spy drone in Iran

Iran–U.S. RQ-170 incident

On 4 December 2011, an American Lockheed Martin RQ-170 Sentinel unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) was captured by Iranian forces near the city of Kashmar in northeastern Iran. The Iranian government announced that the UAV was brought down by its cyberwarfare unit which commandeered the aircraft and safely landed it, after initial reports from Western news sources inaccurately claimed that it had been "shot down".^[1] The United States government initially denied the claims but later President Obama acknowledged that the downed aircraft was a US drone and requested that Iran return it.^[2][3]

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• 1 Capture of the drone
• 2 US acknowledgement
• 3 Complaint to UN Security Council
• 4 Request for return by the United States
• 5 Reverse engineering of the drone
• 6 Decoded footage obtained from captured US drone
• 7 References

ISIS human trafficker arrested by Ezidi fighters - Video

The Ezidi Resistance Unit of Shingal YBS has managed to arrest an ISIS human trafficker who was responsible for the trade of abducted Ezidi women. The Kurdish Muslim from Shingal region who, by his own account was on they way to Mosul was catched during combat operations near Shingal city. The day before he had returned from Mosul to Shingal in order to `handle his business´.

Among his seized valuables were both information on the purchase and sale of Ezidi women as well as cash with a value of $2,000. Also a list with a piece of number of Ezidi women who were still `available for purchase´. He is supposed to be personally responsible for the trade of dozens of Ezidi women, a YBS fighter said. The arrested individual did not deny his criminal acts.

The wounded human trafficker received, as it can be seen on the video, medical treatment and will remain in custody. According to YBS fighters, he could communicate the whereabouts of abducted women and children.

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Autonomous robots can learn and perform complex actions via observation

Imagine having a personal robot prepare your breakfast every morning. Now, imagine that this robot didn’t need any help figuring out how to make the perfect omelet, because it learned all the necessary steps by watching videos on YouTube. It might sound like science fiction, but a team at the University of Maryland has just made a significant breakthrough that will bring this scenario one step closer to reality.

Researchers at the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS)partnered with a scientist at theNational Information Communications Technology Research Centre of Excellence in Australia (NICTA) to develop robotic systems that are able to teach themselves. Specifically, these robots are able to learn the intricate grasping and manipulation movements required for cooking by watching online cooking videos. The key breakthrough is that the robots can “think” for themselves, determining the best combination of observed motions that will allow them to efficiently accomplish a given task.

The work will be presented on Jan. 29, 2015, at the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Conference in Austin, Texas. The researchers achieved this milestone by combining approaches from three distinct research areas: artificial intelligence, or the design of computers that can make their own decisions; computer vision, or the engineering of systems that can accurately identify shapes and movements; and natural language processing, or the development of robust systems that can understand spoken commands. Although the underlying work is complex, the team wanted the results to reflect something practical and relatable to people’s daily lives.

“We chose cooking videos because everyone has done it and understands it,” said Yiannis Aloimonos, UMD professor of computer science and director of the Computer Vision Lab, one of 16 labs and centers in UMIACS. “But cooking is complex in terms of manipulation, the steps involved and the tools you use. If you want to cut a cucumber, for example, you need to grab the knife, move it into place, make the cut and observe the results to make sure you did them properly.”

One key challenge was devising a way for the robots to parse individual steps appropriately, while gathering information from videos that varied in quality and consistency. The robots needed to be able to recognize each distinct step, assign it to a “rule” that dictates a certain behavior, and then string together these behaviors in the proper order.

“We are trying to create a technology so that robots eventually can interact with humans,” saidCornelia Fermüller, an associate research scientist at UMIACS. “So they need to understand what humans are doing. For that, we need tools so that the robots can pick up a human’s actions and track them in real time. We are interested in understanding all of these components. How is an action performed by humans? How is it perceived by humans? What are the cognitive processes behind it?”

Aloimonos and Fermüller compare these individual actions to words in a sentence. Once a robot has learned a “vocabulary” of actions, they can then string them together in a way that achieves a given goal. In fact, this is precisely what distinguishes their work from previous efforts.

“Others have tried to copy the movements. Instead, we try to copy the goals. This is the breakthrough,” Aloimonos explained. This approach allows the robots to decide for themselves how best to combine various actions, rather than reproducing a predetermined series of actions.

The work also relies on a specialized software architecture known as deep-learning neural networks. While this approach is not new, it requires lots of processing power to work well, and it took a while for computing technology to catch up. Similar versions of neural networks are responsible for the voice recognition capabilities in smartphones and the facial recognition software used by Facebook and other websites.

While robots have been used to carry out complicated tasks for decades—think automobile assembly lines—these must be carefully programmed and calibrated by human technicians. Self-learning robots could gather the necessary information by watching others, which is the same way humans learn. Aloimonos and Fermüller envision a future in which robots tend to the mundane chores of daily life while humans are freed to pursue more stimulating tasks.

“By having flexible robots, we’re contributing to the next phase of automation. This will be the next industrial revolution,” said Aloimonos. “We will have smart manufacturing environments and completely automated warehouses. It would be great to use autonomous robots for dangerous work—to defuse bombs and clean up nuclear disasters such as the Fukushima event. We have demonstrated that it is possible for humanoid robots to do our human jobs.”

In addition to Aloimonos and Fermüller, study authors includedYezhou Yang, a UMD computer science doctoral student, and Yi Li, a former doctoral student of Aloimonos and Fermüller from NICTA.

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Residents inside Kobani December 4, 2014

Kobani, Syria (CNN) -- Kobani feels haunted by those who are still alive in it, trapped in limbo. It is a place so inhumane that the noise of coalition warplanes above is of strange comfort to those there. The destruction so near complete, the fight is more now for victory alone, not for its spoils. One salient fact stands out: They have given up on hospitals inside the city. Yes, the lightly wounded are treated by the handful of doctors who remain, but since a huge car bomb near the official border crossing with Turkey obliterated their main hospital, they send the injured straight to the border. Another hospital would just be another possible target for ISIS. In the past the Kurds battling the militant Islamists for control of the border city have claimed as many as 10,000 civilians remain inside. During our two days there we saw little to justify that large a figure. There are civilians here, but they eke out a life in the rubble, seeking food and fuel as winter looms, and likely number in the low thousands. There are civilians here who refuse to flee or cannot. Turkey has closed the western crossing point through which many refugees left -- indeed many stand there now, trying to get out, looking at the Turkish soldiers to help. Those inside, however, are besieged increasingly by ISIS from all fronts. Nothing can protect them from the indiscriminate, constant shelling. ISIS forces routinely use homemade mortars: gas canisters packed with shreds of scrap metal. They rain down on the Kurdish civilian areas, where fighters also mix. U.S. options in Syria shrivel as Assad, Islamist forces make gains Fighting by the fallen in Kobani CNN crosses into ISIS wreckage Food aid suspended for Syrian refugees Yousuf, who is 12, lists the friends who have left Kobani. He also shows us what they do to protect themselves when the blasts begin. There is no shelter, just a room in their house where their uncle told them to run. They show us the cushions they use to hide. Some line the walls, others they put on top of them. Were this a game, it would not have any rules. 'She was 7 years old. She was so beautiful' Ali is 60 years old and a week earlier lost one of his six daughters. She was 7 years old. He walks us to the spot where the mortar hit her. "Three to four mortars fell near us. The first mortar we escaped from. The second mortar we escaped from. The third fell on us." He is interrupted by the thud of another mortar landing some streets away. "My daughter was 7 years old; 7 years old -- and she died. God bless help us." They could not flee; the 150 sheep he tends are their livelihood, as is the family car they did not want to abandon. The animals stand helpless, too, near the spot where Ali's daughter died. Ali and his family moved here when ISIS attacked their village, 15 kilometers from Kobane. Ali must live with these decisions. The day before, he sat at his daughter's grave for a half-hour. He kisses her photograph. "She was 7 years old. She was so beautiful. Small. People who saw her felt the need to lift her up and down in play." The graveyard on the city's outskirts also is a somber scene. It, too, is makeshift. Rubble -- bits of cinder block -- are used as headstones. Next to the fresh graves lies a long trench -- ready for the next wave of dead. It, too, is the scene of children playing, clambering around the trench. The conflict's brutality may be beyond their reach, but the fight for Kobani will decide what kind of life they could be left with if they survive.
Residents inside Kobani December 4, 2014, #ISIS, #islamicstate,

Surviving Execution

Video Published on Oct 2, 2014 TheTraceyShelton

In village after village last month in Iraq, the Islamic State executed scores of Yazidi men. A few lived to tell about it.
(This is an interesting video some guys who escaped ISIS some shot in mass graves and ISIS eagle eyes must have been resting that day. Not many survived. It shows some good maps on how they got away and went to safety in Kurdistan Iraq.- IanBach)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrwWQgeJ1iE
(the link above wont link the video here it may be flagged by the user as adult content.)

Syrian boy risks life to save girl from sniper fire: Video

Syrian boy risks life to save girl from sniper fire: Video

The footage, uploaded on video-sharing website YouTube by a Syrian network on November 10, shows the terrifying scene, which occurs in an undisclosed place in crisis-hit Syria.

In the footage, a Syrian boy risks his own life to reach a little girl who has taken shelter from sniper fire behind a burnt-out car.

The boy, running to reach the girl through sniper fire, falls to the ground amid incessant shooting targeted at him, but manages to stand up and reach the girl. The boy takes the girl’s hand and runs away to a safe place amid a cloud of dust due to the barrage of bullets fired seemingly by the militants.

According to a report by the London-based Oxford Research Group, over 11,000 Syrian children, including hundreds targeted by sniper fire, lost their lives in the country between March 2011 and August 2013.

The report says that, of the 11,420 victims aged 17 and lower, 389 were killed by sniper fire.

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Afghanistan Video Documentary 1996 to present

Brian Glyn Williams, a professor at U Mass and the owner of an excellent personal-academic website, has produced a documentary on Rashid Dostum. This has a lot of Afghan footage and takes the viewer from 1996 to present. Thanks to http://afghanistanica.com/ for finding this and so much great info about Afghanistan.

Achmed the Dead Terrorist

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnkIVUMT3es
Hopefully no one takes offense to this.

AT WAR - Movie Trailer 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iS-yiaXaig
The War in Afghanistan as seen through the eyes of a Photo Journalist.

YouTube - GLXP Launch Highlights 9/15/07

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Rn4Gj97sLY
Video of the announcement of the Lunar X Prize Sept 13, 2007.

Lunar X-Prize - Moon 2.0: Join the Revolution

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9K4zosGUMBw
30 million dollar in prizes to he first two teams that land rovers on the mooon and accompish set tasks.

"Horse Soldier, Horse Soldier" - Corb Lund @ Hideaway BBQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7cMcB9na3w
Lyrics from “Horse Soldier, Horse Soldier,” a song on Corb Lund’s new album:

the lyric's include the following during the guitar solo
"Today I ride with special forces on those wily Afghan horses,
Dostum’s Northern Alliance gives their thanks. "

It’s sung in Raleigh, North Carolina and played in honor of a soldier killed in Afghanistan:

Charlie Wilsons War - Trailer

http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=20144629
Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts in the story about how the U.S covertly backed the Afghan rebels against the Soviet Union during the Cold War.