"Kajaki: A War Story with No Enemy" Topic
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| Tango01 | 16 Dec 2014 1:09 p.m. PST |
"Kajaki is a powerful new war film about the British campaign in Helmand; it is surely the best of all the films about the 9/11 wars (read a previous WOTR review of the film by T.S. Allen here). The film depicts a notorious incident in September 2006 in the early months of the British campaign in a small outpost on the Kajaki reservoir. Attempting to engage Taliban fighters, a sniper team patrolled out from their base on high ground to reach a good firing position. Unfortunately, one of the snipers, Corporal Stuart Hale, tripped an old Russian mine which had been washed into a wadi and loses a leg. An emergency team comes out from the base to evacuate him, but in the course of preparing a site from which to have him winched to safety, a second soldier, Corporal Stuart Pearson, trips another mine losing both legs. Panic now begins to set in as the soldiers realize the density of the minefield which they are in…"
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