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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

some metal slug shit

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 days ago (1 children)

"If I say it's safe to surf this beach, it's safe to surf this beach!"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

You smell that? It smells like...freedom.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 55 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Reverse image search puts this in Yemen, Shabwah District, 2002. Source is @surfjournalist. Seems like dude just really wanted to surf the Yemeni coast post-9/11.

The surfer is Chas Smith. A surfer / journalist who decided to surf across Yemen during the Chad war to document both sides in search of the origins of Al Quaeda with some other surfer friends.

so we don't have to click the R🤮DD!T link

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

so we don't have to click the R🤮DD!T lonk

The hero we need! 🤩😍

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago

lonk me daddy

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You could recreate this sort of shot today in all sorts of countries. If its an internal conflict in a mainly brown skin country, then nobody sees some white tourist as a threat.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

I mean, a civil war still is a war, with all the cloak-and-dagger stuff, collateral damage and desperate people

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

Divide and conquer means there's always a tribe you're save with.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 6 days ago

I honestly think this is my favorite greentext of all time

[–] [email protected] 32 points 6 days ago

End of the Chad–Libyan war colorised.

[–] [email protected] 80 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Is the CIA just picking their covers out of a hat now?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 days ago (2 children)

They watched Point Break one too many times.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Great documentary

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Unless it's the remake.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Chad got sent to the wrong country.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

Always gmhave been.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Dexter Holland from The Offspring takes a ride on the back of a Libyan Freedom Fighter's truck to go surfing.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Chas Smith of Surfing takes a ride in the back of a Yemeni (police?) truck to go surfing.*

But yee.

https://www.amazon.com/Reports-Hell-Chas-Smith/dp/1665178574