Firefight In Afghanistan-Death of Pat Tillman PART 2
Firefight In Afghanistan-Death of United States Army Ranger Pat Tillman in friendly fire incident.
Video Transcript
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shooterbackdrop my magazine and white tracers
batday and i thought my shirt pop another
magazinepause for a second catch my breathwhen i got back up the taliban that were
off to the right side in the honeycombhad started to come outi think that they figured we were
treatedwhere the media threats are engaged and
firsthas a lotthe rest of edwards guerrillas have made
their way back up the hill ever gatheredaround him watching inspirehas a lotfires off a booster rounds from above my
head and i kinda pozo lookuplikes a lot tell them to get down and
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in ourwhile in a town with all my clothes
right after and they're they're shootingwildly in the aircaptain andpauses for a whilecaught off guardhe jumps up and races down the hill
behind his frenzied guerrillasthe village of sri lankakandahar province of afghanistandecember third two thousandtwo thirty p_m_afghan guerrilla fighters allied with
u_s_ officialsforces troops just launched this pointinto the telling them hockey playerthe u_s_ commander of theforce special forces captain jason mis stocked by his men's bold actionover in another town runningrunning along behind i didn't know who
is firmly who wasn'tprogress the circus fit all alongthe ferocity in the brothers to the
charge frightens the taliban fighters inthe fieldchin and on a hilltop to the eastthey break and we treat out the back
side of town and across the dry aredoomed ob riveramarin takes a firing positionand reassess sincethe taliban have retrieved it for now
but he knows they might rally soonso the captain decides to let his
guerrillas press the offensive while hereturns for other special forces
soldiers just outside of townthe special ops troops immediately take
over the entrenched hilltop the talibanhave just a bitwe still don't know what's going on but
always from that from that trench oneweek ago try to correct some actionthe threat of an enemy counterattack
looms largewe could see that the taliban are
starting to reform on the other side ofthe arvind ithere's just a model them startin a
cluster over therethe americans we still time calling for
air supportand an f_-eighteen fighter bombers soon
arrives on the sceneonce f_-eighteen started dropping bombs
bonded f layout anathema disappearcontinued pressure from several fronts
lastthe taliban to capitulatethey evacuate kandahar on december
seventhadvantage into the surrounding hillsthe extremists are no longer
afghanistan's official governingfactionsbut leaders will our homeis not turn himself over the coalition
authoritiesit's like the feelingthough some of the lot every treated in
the mountains and she wears near theborder with pakistanseveral hundred television foot soldiers
still spoiling for a flight follow themfish and he called valleytwenty five miles south of the
provincial capital of cargoes is thoughtto be one likely hideoutwho had been a strongholdand resistance fighters drawings soviet
afghan war so already some kesaripreparefire if you were sitting here talking
and how they had a feeling thatsecuring arabic and operate there with
impunitythe al-qaeda and taliban fighters still
at large are battle-hardened from yearsof conflictfirst with the sovietsin between rival clans of the afghan
civil warfollowing the soviet withdrawalhardcore flightfrom many nationalities summer air of
some church teensthese forces decided to stay and fight
itnearly spring two thousand two hundred
u_s_ high command comes up with the plantrapti enemy fighters to china called
outand killed or capturedbig of the operation anacondaand the idea is to surround the valley
with three rings of troopsthen send in friendly afghan soldiers to
sweep the valley floor clearing outal-qaeda and taliban forces along the
waythere were upwards of a thousand
al-qaeda fighterspolice lorena hydro interrupted should
the familyon march fourthtwo thousand twothe second day of the operation too huhnotes from the one hundred first
important informationmarch into the valleyto help comrades pinned down by mortar
fireour mission was to go there and finally
more and destroy itin late afternoon enemy fighters on
opposing hillside engineer village belowopened fire on the one hundred and first
troopsground fireand the second on fire offat that point were all getting our
defensive positions and naminghe was pretty hardfinest focused on the leadership elaat the center of thecaptain greg fordsergeant major g_a_t_t_ where and othersreturn firefifty caliber machine gun with delta
company in the back of the compoundat that point only fire focused on thatas the fightwears onanymore terrellbegin lending to the heavy machine gunfirst one roundone round shortthe enemy is bracketed position zero onesergeant major taylor rushes toward the
gun positionsand orders everyone away from the areafiring his weapon immediately next to
the machinealso focused on return firenot realize that more if i was coming on
top ofgive the soldiers doesn't come to his
senses soona murderous indirect round is certain to
land squarely on his positionshanghai hotel and happiness andmarch second two thousand two factortwo companies at one hundred first
airborneis are under attackfrom al-qaeda and taliban troopscaliber machinein mere moments devastating round that
you're going to directone soldier is notto celebratesergeant major treaty taylor springs
into actionhere and back up the hilltransported by the first one back and
read the maximum amountseconds laterit's the exact spotwhere the youngster
This video is intended for the sole purpose of my own creativity and does not reflect the opinion of any of the artists or voices used in the video. The song is Mr. President from The Grouch and Eligh. The voices are various newscasters and reporters.
On HBO's Inside the NFL, Peter King interviewed Denver QB Jake Plummer about the horrific treatment the Tillman family have received over Pat's death. There have been four investigations into what really happened to him and now a fifth one is getting close to being completed. How reprehensible has this been for the Tillman family? Pat is killed and they were repeatedly lied to. The family is not speaking out, but Plummer is. Good for him. Somebody has to.
For more on this, see:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/09/25/MNGD7ETMNM1.DTL
Kevin Tillman joined the Army with his brother Pat in 2002, and they served together in Iraq and Afghanistan. Pat was killed in Afghanistan on April 22, 2004. Kevin, who was discharged in 2005, has written a powerful, must-read document.
See: http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/200601019_after_pats_birthday/
Pat Tillman was a professional football player with the Arizona Cardinals.
In response to the September 11, 2001 incident, he passed up a $3.6 million contract and joined the Army. His sacrifice became made him a symbol of patriotism and a poster child for Army recruiters.
Pat Tillman came to his senses and turned against the wars. Through friends and family, he made contact with anti-war icon Noam Chomsky.
Perhaps Tillman was ready to make a public statement of opposition to the wars, which would have been a public relations catastrophe for the Army. We will never know. Perhaps the Army knew he was going to go public with a statement of opposition. We will never know.
Pat Tillman took three bullets through the head on April 22, 2004. He was shot at close range by his own men while on paatrol in Afghanistan.
A massive coverup followed, in which the public was told that Tillman had been killed by hostile fire. He was awarded the Silver star. The conspiracy to deceive Tillman's grieving family and the public went to the highest levels of the Army, and centered on one Lt. General Stanley McChrystal.
Eventually, the fraud was exposed, and a half-hearted congressional investigation followed.
Pat Tillman is still dead. His mother, Mary Tillman, still grieves. Lt. General Stanley McChrystal was promoted to supreme commander of the Afghan theater.
The Oversight Committee holds a hearing, "The Tillman Fratricide: What the Leadership of the Defense Department Knew." The hearing is part of an ongoing investigation and follows a previous hearing held in April. Witnesses will include former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Former Commander of U.S. Central Command Gen. John P. Abizaid (Retired), Former Chair of Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Richard B. Myers (Retired), Former Commander of U.S. Special Operations Command Gen. Bryan Douglas Brown (Retired). Gen. Kensinger has been served with a subpoena, but has not been able to be located over the past several days and will not appear. Rep. John Tierney questions witnesses on why nobody informed the White House that it was likely a case of fratricide.
New Hoover Dam Bridge - Initially, I thought they were building a suspension bridge with the very high towers on both side installed and managing and installing all those expensive high quality cables, but no. In my opinon, they choose the most EXPENSIVE and unnecessary lengthy and WASTAGE way to build this bridge. Surely, it's another way to "skin a cat" - the US Bridge Authority?
The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform holds a hearing entitled "Misleading Information from the Battlefield." The hearing focuses on the death of Army Ranger Specialist Patrick Tillman in Afghanistan and the capture and rescue of Army Private Jessica Lynch in Iraq. The Committee examines why inaccurate accounts of these two incidents were disseminated, the sources and motivations for the accounts, and whether the appropriate Administration officials have been held accountable. Rep. Bruce Braley questions whether edits were made to original reports about the incident that resulted in Tillman's death.
My ReThink Interview with Amir Bar-Lev, the director of the documentary THE TILLMAN STORY, which tells the story of pro football player Pat Tillman, who quit the NFL to join the Army Rangers and the cover-up that ensued when Tillman was killed by friendly fire in Afghanistan.
In this interview, Amir talks about why he wanted to tell Pat Tillman's story, why there was not more public outrage when it was revealed that the military's stories about Tillman and Jessica Lynch were lies, why America seems to crave a "sanitized" version of war, and what Amir's favorite movie is.
For more about THE TILLMAN STORY, visit http://www.tillmanstory.com/
For more ReThink Interviews and Reviews, visit http://rethinkreviews.net/
A tribute video to the late Pat Tillman, former defensive player for Arizona State and the Arizona Cardinals, who gave his life in service to our country in the fight on terror in Afghanistan.
Alternate version of the Pat Tillman tribute I made shortly after his death. Visit Pat's Page on my website for more videos and info about Pat. CHRISVALENTINES.COM
After great concerns that the Hoover Dam could be a target of muslim terrorists several of America's most important pieces of infrastructure were re-designed or re-built. The new Hoover Dam Bridge, repalcing the old dam-top roadway is the latest project to be completed.
