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2002 Complete Guide to Operation Enduring Freedom: The First Year of the American War on Terrorism News and Photo Galleries from Afghanistan, Battles Against al Qaeda (al-Qaida) Terrorists and the Taliban, Humanitarian Relief Flights, U.S. Central Command, Air Force, Army, Navy, Marines, Weapons (Two CD-ROM Set)

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Well, it's a bargain of you consider that you can get most of this material for free but it would be an enormous pain in the neck to retrieve it yourself.

I've been reading this guide for more than two years and I'm only halfway through! That's because there must be more than 20,000 pages, some of them quite dense and technical, and most of it is out of date. But I will say that anyone interested in probing the mysterious death of Pat Tillman has got to read the 2002 COMPLETE GUIDE TO OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM. Did you know that they were going to call this revenge mission Operation Infinite Justice? That would have been a laugh. As it is, it's not a name that will go down in history for euphony or realism. The 2002 guide packs a punch, showing how George Bush rammed the proposal through Congress in October 2001 while Americans were too shell shocked to know what had really happened, and the truth is, as these documents reveal, we still don't really know what happened, and we never will, either. Operation Enduring Freedom was supposed to promote the cessation of terrorist activities in Afghanistan, and it included dropping lots of leaflets across the high deserts and mountains of that far away land. Many of these leaflets are reproduced in this handy guide, however, the context is missing so it's hard to gauge what kind of reaction General Franks expected to elicit from the ordinary Afghan man on the street with these bizarre flyers.

My hat is off to the brave men and woman soldiers who went there and met their deaths through danger. It now seems clear that Pat Tillman died not through enemy fire nor the operations of Al Qaeda, but he died of fratricide which the Army tried to cover up. In a way I don't blame them, but still it's discouraging when your own country lies to you and I expect his family are still in a state of shock, especially his brother Kevin who is still in Afghanistan last I heard. Though this 2002 COMPLETE GUIDE is out of date, and runs out of steam long before the timeline in which Tillman left football and joined the Armed Services, you don't have to read between the lines to see that "friendly fire" has been a huge problem in Operation Enduring Freedom. When will it end? Though the Taliban was removed from power by March 2002, anti-American forces still contend with our troops on a daily basis. The Tomahawk targeting cycle has its limits.