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Anon is a freedom fighter (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Found it.

[–] TimewornTraveler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 56 points 2 weeks 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

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] OwlPaste@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

The hero we need! 🤩😍