www.longwarjournal.org took a SITE Intelligence Group video on Haqqani Network training camps along the AFG/PK border. The 60 Min long video they made into 5 mins or so (link Below). It shows HIG training people on various weapons and conducting IADs.
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2011/11/haqqani_network_rele.php
Poor Food
Lacking Ammo
Minimal Training
Probably 9 in 10 have no education
BUT,, They will give their lives for allah...
When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
An' go to your Gawd like a soldier.
Go, go, go like a soldier,
Go, go, go like a soldier,
Go, go, go like a soldier,
So-oldier of the Queen!
Young British Soldier, Stanza 13, Rudyard Kipling, circa 1895
http://www.kipling.org.uk/poems_youngbrit.htm
The Arabic phrase "Allahu Akbar", shouted by the Fort Hood killer Major Nidal Malik Hasan before he opened fire, is known as the takbir and is used by Muslims to express a wide range of emotions.
Translated as "God is great", it can be used to express delight and euphoria or as a war cry during battles.
It is also said during each stage of both obligatory prayers, which are supposed to be performed five times a day, and supererogatory prayers, which are said at will.
The Muslim call to prayer, or adhan, and commence to the prayer, or iqama, also contains the phrase, which is heard in cities all over the Muslim world.
In the Islamic world, instead of applause, often someone will shout "takbir" and the crowd will respond "Allahu Akbar" in chorus.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6516570/Fort-Hood-shootings-the-meaning-of-Allahu-Akbar.html
circa 2009
It's going to be a long war...
:munchin