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orgyofthedead


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Last year, EastEnders actor turned award-winning journalist Ross Kemp travelled to Afghanistan to live with, travel with, and face fire with British soldiers.

Kemp lived with sand storms, temperatures of over 50ºC and the constant threat of attack from the Taliban to film a documentary about the lives of soldiers for Sky One.

"Conditions in Afghanistan are intolerable, 'he said.' The heat is stifling and there's the constant threat of snipers, RPG attacks and land mines. During one engagement between B Company and the Taliban we were pinned down by enemy fire in open ground; bullets fizzed by inches from our heads, hitting the ground on either side of us. It was the most frightening experience of my life. I’ve never hugged the ground as tightly as I did when that happened. It's definitely the closest I have ever come to dying. I was so scared."


EPISODE 1

VeohTV: http://www.veoh.com/videos/v3298199AqZacdyf (thanks nosleep365)


EPISODE 2

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EPISODE 3

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EPISODE 4

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Episode 05

VeohTV: http://www.veoh.com/videos/v5694493ZKMNFerH (thanks nosleep365)
horsehead
great - thanks man smile.gif

this is the first episode of a whole series being shown in the UK at the moment, looks like good stuff,
nomed44
Great Find, I wouldn't mind if this was Sticky/Pinned till series ended, NICE FIND!
nosleep365
Ross Kemp was good in his series "Gangs" and he is good in this!

Really interesting show!

VeohTV: http://www.veoh.com/videos/v3298199AqZacdyf
mark8
Thanks for the links, a truly sobering series ahead I feel.
GodForbid
Thanks!! Make sure you get the next parts up here too biggrin.gif
nosleep365
QUOTE(orgyofthedead @ Jan 30 2008, 01:35 AM) *
will do , updated ep2, only youtubes at moment have to wait a bit for stage 6 but if your like me than it dont matter.


Cheers for the update dude! biggrin.gif I will keep an eye out for a stage6 link! wink.gif
paulwill
Great link matey... Top Man!!!
movieman
great stuff mate cheers
greenbenuk
[Thanks for this post, been wanting to watch it but all ways at work when its on, made by day.
Just amazing how much work our boys are doing out there and how much they have at risk, thinking of all the lads out fighting these wars, God Bless you guys and girls get homw safely especially you Jade.
stoner
interesting post, thanks a lot. just hope there won't be any more casualties... good luck to all allied soldiers. they sure need it. :S
chuggliams
Wow-thanks 4 this. I didn't even know he was doing a series in Afghanistan.
Kudos to Ross and his camera crew for having the bollocks to go to the front line with "B" battalion.
Although I liked his thingy on gangs, I thought he was just playing up to his "tough man" image, but I'm well impressed with what he's doing here. At least with the gangs, they knew it was T.V. and behaved accordingly-the taliban don't give a flying wank and he was as likely to get caught by enemy fire as any other member of his battalion.
Serious respect for being that brave-I panic if I have to go to the 24 hour garage after midnight by myself!!
(yeah, I'm not quite as macho as some might believe)
Thankyou again for this-fascinating stuff...........
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Suz
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rob123
I think all the talk about Ross Kemp being a fake 'hardman' will stop now. He's done a great job covering this. Hopefully all our boys will stay as safe as possible out there, and give Afghanistan the help it obviously needs.
mike1168
tidy been looking for this hope you get the rest up
muntbuk
QUOTE(stoner @ Jan 30 2008, 10:24 PM) *
interesting post, thanks a lot. just hope there won't be any more casualties... good luck to all allied soldiers. they sure need it. :S


Yeah, "Good luck" killing innocent people for George Bush & his NeoCon pals!
rob123
Give it a rest, these guys are just doing their job! If you believe in those silly conspiracies, why don't you act on your beliefs and do some political activism, instead of sitting on your arse, whining on forums and watching frankly embarrassingly bad conspiracy docs? I for one don't think our political leaders have the nouse to perpetrate a global conspiracy, they're far too incompetent.
muntbuk
QUOTE(rob123 @ Feb 3 2008, 03:16 PM) *
Give it a rest, these guys are just doing their job!

Hmmn.. Where have i heard that before?

"These guys" are brainwashed murderers!

Nice pictures of a "job" well done in this article by British soldier:

http://www.thewe.cc/weplanet/news/europe/u...refuse_call.htm
rob123
I doubt if those children were "attacked" by soldiers, I hope that no soldier on either side would do that. War is a horrible thing, but saying that soldiers are in the wrong and are intentionally killing kids is not on. Blame the people who send them there, or blame the people who are the cause of the war, not the men who are doing a job to feed their family or get through life like the rest of us.

I'm against the killing of any person, regardless of what they have done or who they are. That's my personal view, I don't think it can ever be justified, accept in self-defence.

I have a friend who's on his second tour in Afghanistan, and another who has just gone into Sandhurst for officer training, and I take acception at your silly generalisation saying "These guys" are brainwashed murderers!" I hope and think that my friends are not cold blooded killers, are not brainwashed, they are in the army for their own reasons, they are not bad people, but they may have to do bad things, this is reality.

Now you are of course entitled to your opinion, and I encourage you to voice it, but reality is not black and white, right and wrong, soldier Vs child, there are shades of grey everywhere and stating absolutes like you do, does nothing but ferment more bloodshed and hate.
Shoomer
QUOTE(muntbuk @ Feb 3 2008, 03:23 PM) *
"These guys" are brainwashed murderers!

I`m an ex British soldier and you my friend have no fucking idea what you are talking about. You prick - you don`t deserve anymore of my time, so I will leave it at that..Shame on you sad.gif
muntbuk
QUOTE(rob123 @ Feb 3 2008, 04:25 PM) *
I doubt if those children were "attacked" by soldiers, I hope that no soldier on either side would do that.


Of course those kids & civillians were killed & wounded by soldiers.
What do you think happened? Did they fall off their bikes or something!?
muntbuk
QUOTE(Shoomer @ Feb 3 2008, 04:43 PM) *
I`m an ex British soldier and you my friend have no fucking idea what you are talking about. You prick - you don`t deserve anymore of my time, so I will leave it at that..Shame on you sad.gif


"Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy". (Henry Kissinger)

Universal Soldier

He's five foot-two, and he's six feet-four,
He fights with missiles and with spears.
He's all of thirty-one, and he's only seventeen,
Been a soldier for a thousand years.

He'a a Catholic, a Hindu, an Atheist, a Jain,
A Buddhist and a Baptist and a Jew.
And he knows he shouldn't kill,
And he knows he always will,
Kill you for me my friend and me for you.

And he's fighting for Canada,
He's fighting for France,
He's fighting for the USA,
And he's fighting for the Russians,
And he's fighting for Japan,
And he thinks we'll put an end to war this way.

And he's fighting for Democracy,
He's fighting for the Reds,
He says it's for the peace of all.
He's the one who must decide,
Who's to live and who's to die,
And he never sees the writing on the wall.

But without him,
How would Hitler have condemned him at Labau?
Without him Caesar would have stood alone,
He's the one who gives his body
As a weapon of the war,
And without him all this killing can't go on.

He's the Universal Soldier and he really is to blame,
His orders come from far away no more,
They come from here and there and you and me,
And brothers can't you see,
This is not the way we put the end to war.
gibbersome
QUOTE(rob123 @ Feb 3 2008, 03:16 PM) *
Give it a rest, these guys are just doing their job! If you believe in those silly conspiracies, why don't you act on your beliefs and do some political activism, instead of sitting on your arse, whining on forums and watching frankly embarrassingly bad conspiracy docs? I for one don't think our political leaders have the nouse to perpetrate a global conspiracy, they're far too incompetent.


No, I don't think you can call killing a "job". In a job you always have the option of quitting. In the middle of a desert, fighting for your life and the lives of those around you, while trying to fight insurgents and trying to keep civilian casualties to a minimum, that's hell. I doubt any of them realized what they were getting into when they signed up. I have a friend who just came back from serving 18 months and he practically begged me not to join the military.

Once you're on the field of combat, there's little you can do but go on. You can't just drop your gun and demand to go home, the penalty for a deserter is court martial. And don't think the soldiers will come back unharmed, the psychological tolls of the war will become a burden for the rest of their lives.

If anyone's to blame, its those who sent those soldiers, ill-prepared for they were about to face.
muntbuk
When i said that soldiers were "brainwashed murderers" i meant that they have been brainwashed (by false propaganda) into commiting murder. "Osama & Saddam did 9/11 cos they hate our "freedom", etc... Though some of them really do get off on killing (especially the Americans). I feel sorry for most of the young soldiers. They don't know what they're doing. sad.gif
rob123
QUOTE(muntbuk @ Feb 4 2008, 03:17 AM) *
Of course those kids & civillians were killed & wounded by soldiers.
What do you think happened? Did they fall off their bikes or something!?



I said I didn't think they were attacked by soldiers, meaning I doubt soldiers purposefully tried to kill or wound children. While I'm not saying innocent civillians are not sometimes wrongful casualties of conflict, I find your use of sensationalist websites (which carry no water as proof, you don't know how these people were injured/killed) quite disturbing. It reminds me of pantyshots of Britney Spears getting out of cars in the papers.

I'm sure you get a warm fuzzy feeling saying OMG war is wrong, and it makes you feel like a better person, while you take no concrete action to make a change. After all, the citizens of the countries have the blood on their hands because they are keeping the political status quo in place through democracy. You cannot blame the soldiers, while you sit at home and play the armchair warrior, benifiting from the system that started these wars through the comfort of your country having schools, hospitals, relative political freedom and SUVs to drive your kids to school in. It is the citizens who carry the responsibility of this war, even more so than the politicians. Saying it is the soldiers fault is silly, and not putting the responsibility on the right people, the citizens, you keep the polititions in power to maintain your countries stability, keep inflation, oil prices and consumer prices down, while people are dying. All the while at the same time you are forfilling your perverted notion of charity by saying soldiers are bad, brainwashed people who kill kids. You are killing the kids. And if anyone is brainwashed, it isn't the soldiers, it is people like you. The best way to enslave people is to make them believe they are free.
muntbuk
QUOTE(rob123 @ Feb 4 2008, 03:52 AM) *
I said I didn't think they were attacked by soldiers, meaning I doubt soldiers purposefully tried to kill or wound children. While I'm not saying innocent civillians are not sometimes wrongful casualties of conflict, I find your use of sensationalist websites (which carry no water as proof, you don't know how these people were injured/killed) quite disturbing. It reminds me of pantyshots of Britney Spears getting out of cars in the papers.


"sensationalist websites"?
I used one link to an ex-soldiers website.

If pictures showing the reality of children killed in war remind you of Britney Spears pantyshots there is something wrong with you!

I agree with most of what else you said, though to say "people like you" is extremely presumptious of you.
rob123
Sorry, I went on a bit of a rant there...
muntbuk
QUOTE(rob123 @ Feb 4 2008, 03:11 PM) *
Sorry, I went on a bit of a rant there...

Fairy Nuff... Me too.
stoner
sweet, fanks.
uberd0g
QUOTE(Shoomer @ Feb 7 2008, 01:41 AM) *


winner!
ipsisimus
i've really been enjoying this show (weeell not sure enjoying is the right word but you know what i mean) i'd always thought the Kempster a bit of a wanker but i have a new-found modicum of respect for him now. Prolly watch part 3 for breakfast when i get off, tho i've seen the trailers and it doesn't look the happiest viewing before bed
rizzlablu
QUOTE(Gambit808 @ Feb 13 2008, 06:51 PM) *

well done thanks
Knoppy
Don't quote me on it but i think it said in last weeks episode that next week is the last part... i maybe wrong though since i wasn't paying much attention to it for some reason, hence why im trying to get last weeks episode on here rolleyes.gif Anyone going to able to upload the whole episode on here by any chance?
blootoof
Ross Kemp In Afghanistan part 5(final episode)

http://www.megavideo.com/?v=RSWE1S0X
nosleep365
Episode 05


VeohTV: http://www.veoh.com/videos/v5694493ZKMNFerH
tongkham
great series! on the whole a fairly balanced view of how men live in an extreme situation. Should of sent Pat Butcher though, she'd sort out the Taliban! biggrin.gif
Nicolakate
Some of u lot make me sick slagging of the soldiers. You all need to remember that if was it not for our soldiers in ww1 and 2 and soldiers now we would be in a very different society. What have you done in your lifes that makes you so special, i have lost friends in that so called war and unfortunatly have very very close friends there now they do kill children and women and also the people who are trained to kill them those same people training small children to go out on the streets with guns and kill our service men. Our soldier maybe trained to kill but what kind of people must the iraqis and afgans be to train children so young to do the same. I do wonder also would you feel the same if a friend or family member was killed in a terrorist attack i very much doubt so.
muntbuk
QUOTE(Nicolakate @ Feb 27 2008, 09:52 PM) *
Some of u lot make me sick slagging of the soldiers. You all need to remember that if was it not for our soldiers in ww1 and 2 and soldiers now we would be in a very different society. What have you done in your lifes that makes you so special, i have lost friends in that so called war and unfortunatly have very very close friends there now they do kill children and women and also the people who are trained to kill them those same people training small children to go out on the streets with guns and kill our service men. Our soldier maybe trained to kill but what kind of people must the iraqis and afgans be to train children so young to do the same. I do wonder also would you feel the same if a friend or family member was killed in a terrorist attack i very much doubt so.

You are a brainwashed fool. You have'nt got a clue. 9/11 was an inside job. The "war on terrorism" is a hoax. Please wake up FFS!
Nicolakate
I am by no means a fool as you say nor am I brain washed by anyone. Seems to me you perhaps are brain washed/a extremist/or just a do gooder. I would however like to see your evidence that 9/11 was a inside job if this is based of fact or just your opinion which I feel is deluded in some way.
broxi27
this topic can be talked and talked about ,but at the end of the day we have no say in what the goverments of this world do ,i personaly hate every goverment in the world as there lying ,thieving bastar** ,its the troops i feel sorry for in this bullshit war ,i say send out troops home.
OleMissCub
QUOTE(muntbuk @ Feb 27 2008, 04:18 PM) *
You are a brainwashed fool. You have'nt got a clue. 9/11 was an inside job. The "war on terrorism" is a hoax. Please wake up FFS!


Is this sarcasm?

If not, then you are the fool. I don't buy into the neo-con agenda, which I think is evil and bad for humanity, but anyone who thinks 9/11 was an inside job is either stupid or insane.
tehjamez
QUOTE(OleMissCub @ Feb 29 2008, 12:59 AM) *
Is this sarcasm?

If not, then you are the fool. I don't buy into the neo-con agenda, which I think is evil and bad for humanity, but anyone who thinks 9/11 was an inside job is either stupid or insane.


Lol, I love your sig (altho Pompei was undoubtedly a natural disaster, maybe something blaming Huang for the Mongolians relentless assualts on China during the Qin dynasty tongue.gif)

All I was going to say was, you can't rule it out completely!

The pentagon attack is most suspicious of them all. It resembles no impact a plane would leave unless it lost boht wings prior to crashing (rendering its steering useless tongue.gif).

$0.02
DDragon
Ross Kemp Return To Afghanistan (2009) Part 1



horsehead
cool ddragon, thanks

anyone know why this link works for me but other supernovatube links say 'not available in your country' ??
whats different about this link?

EDIT : that was INTENSE to say the least, brilliant television, I didn't want it to end,
Ddragon, you should start a new thread with this, it deserves one.

thanks again emoticon-0137-clapping.gif
DDragon
Episode 2, my upload. rockon.gif

lunchboxmonty
cheers mate ur a star i love the net its the bomb and who care's if a computer will control human kind lol !!!!!
UPinTheCut
QUOTE(Desperado_Newfie @ Feb 19 2009, 01:09 AM) *
Any new links for the first one?



Season 2 episode 3
Megavideo
JamesM
This airs in about 4 minutes, so props to anyone that puts episode 4 up later in advance!
Beware: Youtube are shutting down Ross Kemp links for some reason, and rosskemponline.com has gone down.
James
tongkham
Here it is emoticon-0140-rofl.gif Episode 4
horsehead
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tongkham
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