Smoke rises from the Inter-Continental Hotel in Kabul as a NATO helicopter flies overhead.

KABUL—A helicopter from the coalition led by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization fired on and killed three militants on the roof of Kabul’s InterContinental Hotel, ending the nearly six-hour siege by gunmen and suicide bombers that demonstrated the Taliban’s ability to stage dramatic attacks in Afghanistan’s capital.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304447804576413991003487976.html

“It’s over 120 degrees and the everyone is exhausted. We learn during a pause in the fighting that the Afghan soldiers’ during breaks in battle love to smoke hash and fire their guns at nothing in particular. Not exactly disciplined in the traditional sense of soldier.

You can hire an Afghan to fight but you can never fully buy him.”

“A random survey of 100 representative mosques in the U.S. was conducted to measure the correlation between Sharia adherence and dogma calling for violence against non-believers … In 84.5% of the mosques, the imam recommended studying violence-positive texts.

The leadership at Sharia-adherent mosques was more likely to recommend that a worshipper study violence-positive texts than leadership at non-Sharia-adherent mosques. Fifty-eight percent of the mosques invited guest imams known to promote violent jihad.

The leadership of mosques that featured violence-positive literature was more likely to invite guest imams who were known to promote violent jihad than was the leadership of mosques that did not feature violence-positive literature on mosque premises.”

http://mappingsharia.com/

“While the presence of violent and jihad-based literature alone does not necessarily suggest the worshippers at such a mosque adopt the violent literature’s approach to the use of violence, if the imams at such mosques also promote the literature, and if those mosques are more likely to invite guest imams and speakers who are known to promote violent jihad, the presence of these factors together would be strongly suggestive of an environment prone to jihad recruitment.”

There is a running debate on the effectiveness of bird shot as a home defense round. Here is a story of a man hit at close range who survived such an attack.

“In December 2007, two men brandishing sawn-off shotguns opened fire on Mr Clarke when he answered the door of his home in Fairways, Consett, County Durham.

The steel or lead pellets entered his back, head and neck. He still managed to flee and only escaped possible death when a neighbour pulled him to safety inside their own home.”

The headline states, “Victim survives, but doctors warn he will die 25 years earlier” which seems like BS. Also, the writer of the article did not bother taking the time to verify if the shot was steel or lead.

Still this appears to be an example of someone being shot with bird shot at close range (apparently by two shotguns) and surviving.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2008078/Peppered-150-shotgun-pellets-Victim-survives-doctors-warn-die-25-years-earlier-remove-them.html