Qala-i-Jangi with Toby Harnden

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First Casualty places you with Team Alpha as the CIA rides into battle on horseback alongside the warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum. In Washington, DC, few trust that the CIA men, the Green Berets, and the Americans’ outnumbered Afghan allies can prevail before winter sets in. On the ground, Team Alpha is undeterred. The Taliban is routed but hatches a plot with Al-Qaeda to hit back. Hundreds of suicidal fighters, many hiding weapons, fake a surrender and are transported to Qala-i Jangi-the “Fort of War.”
Team Alpha’s Mike Spann, a former Marine, and David Tyson, a polyglot former Central Asian studies academic, seize America’s initial opportunity to extract intelligence from men trained by bin Laden-among them a young Muslim convert from California. The prisoners revolt and one CIA officer falls-the first casualty in America’s longest war, which will last two decades. The other CIA man shoots dead the Al-Qaeda jihadists attacking his comrade. To survive, he must fight his way out against overwhelming odds.
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@goldencheese7247 2 жыл бұрын

Never forgotten. I remember how heartbroken I was, when I heard it back then. ❤️

@chuckbeattyo 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent episode, and the book is outstanding. Thankyou Tony Harnden. This channel truly gives backstory and the authors' books explain so much. Outstanding channel. 09:38. Toby speaks incredible truth about how things go wrong.

@curtispalmersimmons4064 Жыл бұрын

Johnny Mike spann. Hero

@erolbrown 11 ай бұрын

Great interview. Genuinely insightful.

@liamf5311 8 ай бұрын

There's footage of all this....its amazing and horrifying combined.

@robertharper8557 5 ай бұрын

There is film footage by a danish camera crew where at the prison on the day it kicked off. And they caught the sbs guys in action in the ramparts of the fort.

@samfisher2306 4 ай бұрын

Not sure if the documentary is still online. It was an insane firefight.

@21stTrojan 4 ай бұрын

Yep I remember watching years ago, unfortunately I don’t remember the title of video. It was a documentary that showed the whole situation and the guys holed up in the prison talking about their colleague getting shot.

@billieclark8870 3 ай бұрын

Where is at?

@garymccallum667 4 ай бұрын

Jonny M,Spann was supposed to have been put out of his misery by another American because he was either being led away or that would have been the end result & torture. I heard it today on a podcast & I'm 90% sure it was this 🇬🇧 guy talking who mentioned it.

@MartinT5600 3 ай бұрын

I listened to the same podcast and Damien Lewis is a legitimate person author so I believe that to be true.

@ae1586 2 жыл бұрын

Dummy Rumsfeld should have accepted the talibans offer to hand over bin laden . But he would have had to show proof that bin Laden actually was guilty - something that would be difficult as all lines pointed to Saudi Arabia and the Carlisle group .

@bingolingo222 Жыл бұрын

Bin Laden was guilty as sin, and remember 9/11 wasn’t the first time he messed with the hornets nest 🇺🇸. Remember the 1998 embassy bombings, the USS Cole… that alone should have gotten the Taliban to hand over Bin Laden

@Shred_Tube Жыл бұрын

.......its spelled Carlyle Group

@user-ol3lt9jy2o 8 ай бұрын

How fast this man speaks!

@grassyknoll9647 8 күн бұрын

“You know”

@F3PIZZA 2 жыл бұрын

Hey, TTH! I caught the newest episode of Combat Story, and there was a recently retired USASOC operator on, Erick Miyales. He’s supporting an amazing cause helping to prevent veteran SOF suicides. Maybe it would work for you guys!

@eKh79 2 жыл бұрын

Check the full episodes! The guy was already on TTH, I think 2 weeks ago. Amazing episode!

@F3PIZZA 2 жыл бұрын

@@eKh79 wow really?!? I had no idea! I’ll have to check that out!

@F3PIZZA 2 жыл бұрын

@@eKh79 Hey, I’m trying to find it and I’m seeing nothing. Do you know the episode #?

@eKh79 2 жыл бұрын

@@F3PIZZA Okay, so I clearly wasn’t thinking straight. I watched the Combat Story w/ Mr Miyales myself (amazing and so touching!) and got my podcasts confused. Sorry mate.

@F3PIZZA 2 жыл бұрын

@@eKh79 No worries my friend :)