Infamous Taliban leader assumes room temperature:
If you read Marcus Luttrell’s Lone Survivor or are familiar with Operation Red Wing, you’d recognize Ismail as the incompetent Taliban commander who lost roughly half his force of 150 men to four US Navy SEALs (three of whom died fighting off their attackers). He was later lionized by his fellow bugs for a lucky RPG shot that took down a helicopter full of special forces troops on their way to assist Luttrell’s squad. True to form, the press always plays up the Chinook shoot-down and the tragic loss of 16 operators instead of the remarkable heroism and admirable killing power of the SEALs. Lone Survivor was a New York Times bestseller, and will be made into a feature film next year. HT: Blackfive
