"Where Eagles Dare"

Check out Michael Yon's latest entry, an account of the effort to bring a turbine to a hydroelectric plant in Afghanistan. The pictures alone are worth the visit, but the story is incredible also.

An excerpt:

Since the American-led invasion in 2001, only one turbine was working. The mission’s goal was to drag a second turbine up treacherous roads, and put it online. The operation was of a magnitude large enough to warrant its own name: Operation Oqab Tsuka: Pashto for “Eagle’s Summit.” Some of the younger soldiers, when they heard about the plan to drive a giant convoy straight through Taliban territory, had another name for it: “Operation Suicide.”
(Michael Yon Online)