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(Now Playing) Inside Afghanistan 1 of 2

Oct 6, 2008

The BBC’s Ben Anderson spends 24 hours in Afghanistan’s bloody Helmand Province and walks into a firefight.

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dj_leethol

??? .....have you been smoking with the ANA again?
LaserTag

it always reminds me of that one scene in the wizard of oz
AlligatorDDT

even the word "taliban" sounds so imaginative these days

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