Fortress of War: How 2 CIA Agents Stopped a Taliban Uprising

Name: Fortress of War: How 2 CIA Agents Stopped a Taliban Uprising
Uploaded: 2024
Duration: 48 min

202448 minHD★ 8Conspiracy & Cover-Ups

Dr.Docs' Take

This is the declassified story of the 2001 Qala-i-Jangi prison uprising in Afghanistan, where a handful of CIA operatives, outnumbered a hundred to one, fought to put down a Taliban revolt, and where Mike Spann became the first American killed in the war. I take the heroic framing with salt and still find the raw account gripping. It is one of those real operations more chaotic than any thriller. History written in a fortress, at very close range.

This documentary recounts a declassified CIA operation in Afghanistan, when two operatives on the trail of Osama bin Laden found themselves crushing a Taliban uprising inside a fortress prison. Outnumbered roughly a hundred to one, they fought a desperate battle in the opening months of the war on terror. The film reconstructs the chaos and the stakes of a little-known episode. Gripping and tense, it is a stark account of covert action under fire. Free to watch in HD on Dr Documentary.

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