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[–] jrs100000@lemmy.world 73 points 5 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 25 points 5 days ago

They watched Point Break one too many times.

[–] Dogiedog64@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

Always gmhave been.

[–] DesolateMood@lemmy.zip 50 points 5 days ago

I honestly think this is my favorite greentext of all time

[–] lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 35 points 5 days 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 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days 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

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 17 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] TimewornTraveler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 49 points 5 days 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 8 points 5 days 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 4 days 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 1 points 9 hours ago

so we don't have to click the R🤮DD!T lonk

The hero we need! 🤩😍

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days 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 4 days ago

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

[–] RockBottom@feddit.org 7 points 5 days ago

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

[–] capuccino@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

some metal slug shit