Ambush: Video Shows U.S. Troops Being Hunted, Killed -'The Forgotten War'

[Breeze54]

This video isn't gruesome but it is extremely gut wrenching and you should watch it, if you can...

:cry: :cry:

Ambush: Video Shows U.S. Troops Being Hunted, Killed

November 12, 2007 8:21 AM

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Brian Ross Reports: http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/11/ambush-video-sh.html

Dramatic new video shows how American soldiers in Afghanistan are being set up for deadly
ambushes after trying to make peace with village elders in Taliban-controlled areas.

The effort to win the "hearts and minds" of village elders in the Korengal Valley of Kunar
Province in Afghanistan has proved to be a dangerous one for U.S. troops, with elders often
suspected of tipping Taliban fighters to the soldiers' schedule and whereabouts. Six soldiers
from another 173rd Airborne company, C Company, 1st Platoon, were killed in an ambush over the
weekend in Afghanistan as they returned from a Shura, a meeting, with village elders.



The new video shows the men of the 2nd Platoon of Battle Company twice walking into traps after
leaving meetings with village elders, one called to discuss details of a U.S.-financed water pipe project.
"We went from being the hunters to the hunted," said photographer Tim Hetherington who was with
the troops when they were attacked last month. In the five and a half months the 173rd Airborne
has been in Afghanistan, it has been involved in an estimated 450 enemy engagements, commanders say.

The video is at this title, middle of article.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/11/ambush-video-sh.html

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The video to be broadcast tonight (last night) on ABC News' "World News With Charles Gibson" and
"Nightline" was shot by "Vanity Fair" contributing editor Sebastian Junger and photographer Tim
Hetherington embedded with the 2nd Platoon, Battle (B) company of the 173rd Airborne on a joint
assignment for ABC News and "Vanity Fair" magazine.

[Breeze54]

1. DU shut down before I could edit...they cut the end of that video off!

That is the video I saw on "World News Now" on ABC but the internet
version (from the morning program) was cut off at the end. :argh:

Maybe it was to 'emotional' for a morning program? :shrug:


They ARE repeating the version I saw on ABC NEWS right now...or right after these ads...

I'm trying to see the Nightline version and see if that is the same as the overnight version. :grr:

Nightline Webcast: Ambushed in Afghanistan
10.12.07: Vanity Fair contributors discuss remarkable combat footage.
11/12/2007

Here it comes now or they've wiped it clean...

Now they ARE showing the version I saw on ABC.... :banghead:

[Breeze54]

2. They have wiped it clean or Brian Ross has either

cut the last part of the video off the webcast or maybe he hasn't uploaded it yet.

I checked Nightline webcast and they talk about it but no video like I saw. :grr:

If anybody with a faster connection than me can find it, would you please post it?

Thanks. This is really pissing me off!!! :grr: