A WAY OF LIFE

[hodgo]

Take a look at the video of one of the most dangerous places in the world...
This video was taken near and at the entrance to the Khyber Pass. It is the heart of gun manufacturing for any group with money and is an eye opener. This area is well known for its Tribal independence from any type of central government. It takes about 7.5 min. to watch this, but it is well worth the time. It shows why there is a NO-WIN for any outside interference in the Afganistan/Pakistan Tribal Area.

http://www.vbs.tv/full_screen.php's=DGFE2305DC&sc=1363196 (http://www.vbs.tv/full_screen.php's=DGFE2305DC&sc=1363196)

[DiscoTDI]

Certainly something to help you sleep at night:eek:

[clean32]

Been though there. the video is about correct but the place is quite small.

There are a few places like that around the world. Another one is just out of paske in southern Laos and another north of the PDG. Both areas i knew well back in the mid 90s. These people do this for no other reason than money its just what they do and are usually quite proud of there skill which brings some social standing. a rather hard nut to crack but having said that my job was to buy these wepons just to get them out of circulation ( Laos) a far cheaper option ( British & French did this for years) than the current methods.
But then there’s no political gain doing that.

NB backpackers now travel though Paske and the PDG, the program run for 3 years. In these two areas the tribal and political conflicts in 1994 were responsible for 300 deaths a week in 2006 this was 6 deaths a week all were written up as domestic. Husband wants a new wife or wife was having an affair, neither crimes are really regarded as what we would call as prosecutable.

[BBC]

....and, life as they know it, and as it has been forever, goes on.

Let all the Western World face the fact that, Pakistan, Afghanistan, so much of that part of the world ...is.....a colonial invention. Those borders do not exist in the minds of the tribes that exist there. Business as usual.

Better him than me, firing any weapon out of Darra. Reproduction wise, true to dimension...yes. Standards and quality of material....no. Many blow up in the faces of those firing.

$180 for a Kalashnikov....about right, they were paying $200 - $250 in Tarin Kowt. Price dropped lower for a while when the previous Uruzgan Police Commissioner found out he was being sacked for corruption and he sold out 400 AKs from the armoury...and you can only imagine he sold them to good people.

I'd like to see that journo try to do a story tracing the cultivation, local processing, local transportation, purification and then, international transportation of opium to heroin, from a field in Afghanistan, to a syringe in the West. Also, following the money trail. That is a story. Would any journalist survive the coverage? Probably not.