History Channel: Shootout - Afghanistan's Deadliest Snipers

Afghanistan's skilled sharpshooters camp out in the caves and crags of the nation's mountainous landscape; their intimacy with the rugged terrain allows them to entrap and elude would-be captors. AFGHANISTAN'S DEADLIEST SNIPERS analyzes the advantages held by these extremist gunmen, and the weapons and strategies used by US forces to defeat them.

For five years, heroic U.S. Servicemen and their allies have hunted Al-Qaeda and Taliban extremists who caused the deaths of 3,000 Americans in a single day. Special Forces Captain Jason Amerine orchestrates a bombing campaign that forces the Taliban to surrender Kandahar and escape into the hills. 10th Mountain Division and 101st Airborne Division soldiers kill or capture hundreds of Al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters. Dozens more are rooted out in the birthplace of the Taliban, the Oruzgan Province in south-central Afghanistan. The on-going search for enemy combatants in the mountains of Afghanistan has brought both battlefield successes, and heartbreaking tragedies. This is the story of the gun battles from that search--harrowing, deadly shootouts.

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