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[–] jrs100000@lemmy.world 81 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

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

[–] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 27 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

They watched Point Break one too many times.

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Unless it's the remake.

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago

Great documentary

[–] Dogiedog64@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

Always gmhave been.

[–] DesolateMood@lemmy.zip 57 points 2 weeks ago

I honestly think this is my favorite greentext of all time

[–] lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 37 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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

[–] tiktoklik@quokk.au 32 points 2 weeks ago

End of the Chad–Libyan war colorised.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] 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! 🤩😍

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] Thteven@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] RockBottom@feddit.org 7 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] capuccino@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

some metal slug shit