After 90 minutes, the French vehicles ran out of ammunition, and they abandoned a counterattack. At approximately 15:00 local time, they were spread out over a steep slope and started taking fire from the ridges above. The French soldiers were on a reconnaissance patrol in the Uzbin Valley, about 40 kilometers east of Kabul. Sarobi has become known as the place where ten French soldiers were killed on 18 August, 2008, although they were not actually killed in Sarobi, but near Sper Kundy. The road passes through a village called Sarobi. On our first trip, we drove from Kabul to Jalalabad. But if you live, you’ll come back with a new perspective on Afghanistan. If you are rich and want the adventure of a lifetime, contact Tim Lynch.
In the weeks that I would spend with Tim and Shem, we drove more than a thousand miles up and down Afghan roads without the slightest drama, except that Tim scares me with his driving. I was unarmed, and counting on the military experience of my two guides as well as their combined seven years experience in Afghanistan. The canyon-filled drive would be dangerous even if there was no war, but there is a war – a rapidly growing one - and Tim pointed out burnt spots on the road where ambushes had occurred. In Kabul, I met Tim Lynch and Shem Klimiuk (a retired USMC and ex-Aussie paratrooper, respectively), and we drove in an unarmored truck east to Jalalabad. I flew back and forth between Kandahar and Lashkar Gah, drove around and talked with people down south, then flew up to Kabul. Since leaving the British embed, I’ve gone unilateral. Michael's Dispatches The Road to Hell 52 Comments Details
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