Posts Tagged With: Afghanistan

More Details Released About Intelligence Gathering & Operation That Killed Osama Bin Laden

» by GI Korea May 2nd, 2011 at 5:34 pm » Comments (26)

A lot more details today is coming out about the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden. The intelligence that led to the raid actually happened years ago when Khalid Sheikh ...more »

Al Qaeda Leader Osama Bin Laden Has Been Killed In Pakistan

» by GI Korea May 1st, 2011 at 8:31 pm » Comments (183)

If you haven't heard already Osama Bin Laden has finally been killed: The founder and spiritual figurehead for al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, is dead. Several officials confirmed the report ...more »

Kidnapped South Korean Construction Workers Rescued In Afghanistan

» by GI Korea December 16th, 2010 at 11:15 pm » Comments (0)

I think that these two guys have to feel pretty lucky about now: Two South Korean construction workers were rescued after being briefly kidnapped by unidentified assailants in Afghanistan ...more »

Picture of the Day: Taeguki In Afghanistan

» by GI Korea October 2nd, 2010 at 1:00 pm » Comments (9)

Look what Michael Yon found in Afghanistan: Korean Flags -- I see these flags in various provinces. This flag is in Urozgan (am now in Nangarhar). Many Korean missionaries have come to ...more »

Ft. Lewis Based Soldiers Accused of Murder In Afghanistan

» by GI Korea September 15th, 2010 at 8:40 pm » Comments (32)

Here is an absolutely disgraceful story of an out of control platoon in Afghanistan being accused of a number of crimes to include murder: Spc. Adam Winfield (left), Spc. Michael Wagnon ...more »

Journalist Captured By Taliban Tweets His Location On Twitter

» by GI Korea September 13th, 2010 at 5:09 pm » Comments (14)

This article is interesting not so much in regards to the captured journalist using Twitter to Tweet his location, but it gives a glimpse on who some of the so ...more »

Who Wouldn’t Want Co-ed Showers With Dutch Soldiers?

» by GI Korea August 24th, 2010 at 3:48 am » Comments (12)

So how many people agree with this Staff Sergeant's assessment?: Unisex showers? Raw herring for breakfast? Australian Rules football? Must be Multinational Base Tirin Kot.Soldiers with 1st Squadron, 2nd Stryker ...more »

Afghan Scam Behind RPG Attack On ROK Army Base In Afghanistan

» by GI Korea August 8th, 2010 at 5:54 pm » Comments (2)

Via a reader tip comes this article that shows the RPG attack during the construction of the ROK Army base in Afghanistan was nothing but a scam: Afghan authorities have found ...more »

More Details On North Korea Selling Weapons to Al Qaeda & the Taliban

» by GI Korea July 30th, 2010 at 11:16 pm » Comments (2)

One Free Korea has more on the North Koreans selling weapons to Al Qaeda and the Taliban from the WikiLeaks report that I posted on a few days ago. Here ...more »

Did Osama Bin Laden Buy Weapons From the North Koreans?

» by GI Korea July 26th, 2010 at 9:09 am » Comments (8)

That is what classified documents released on the WikiLeaks website says: There are fleeting — even taunting — reminders of how the war began in the occasional references to the elusive ...more »