A U.S. patrol finds anger and distrust in Afghanistan

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A U.S. patrol finds anger and distrust in Afghanistan

By Jonathan S. Landay | McClatchy Newspapers


BARAKI BARAK, Afghanistan — Five miles from the muddy bazaar where smiling merchants offered tea to U.S. Army Col. David Haight and insisted that outsiders were making all the trouble, a deadly reception had been prepared for his five-vehicle patrol.

A U.S. pilot had spotted men burying what turned out to be a bomb by the road where Haight was stopping to ask how he could help poor farmers and jobless youths who were desperate for any kind of work, including setting explosives for the Taliban.

The stocky combat veteran from Fairfax, Va., wasn't buying what he was hearing about all the troublemakers being outsiders.

"The IED" — improvised explosive device — "that was put on the road down there? The guys are from Baraki Barak," Haight said as he and his men made their way past dingy shops and fruit carts, their fingers rarely straying from the triggers, grimy children gamboling noisily in their wake.

Down the road, U.S. military engineers found and blew up the remote-controlled bomb.

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1. A U.S. patrol finds anger and distrust in Afghanistan

No shit? I mean really, I'm shocked, shocked I tell ya.


Well duh, we're in THEIR country carrying guns, killing people.


Ever think, a guy with a bomb blows up a bus, he's a terrorist, guy with a bomb blows up a bus (dropped from an F-16) he's a hero....................go figure.