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Inside Bagram, it's pretty controlled, outside of Bagram, it's not so much, because of the proximity and they don't want to have any fights, they do behave in general. I didn't trust them, no way. Absolutely no way. They do so many borderline things, like they had somebody there who was shot and he was firing, there were firearms everywhere. He was shooting near a sentry post, and of course, you're going to get shot. He wasn't killed, he was injured. And he goes, "Oh, I was shooting at a bird." Right, okay, you're near a defence, there's a sentry box there and you're shooting at a bird.
There was somebody there, they had a boy where we were passing and we're driving through in trucks and he had a knife and he jumped up and tried to cut someone's throat. I mean, he missed by a mile. The trooper just let it go, and the kid just laughed and just made like it's a joke. So the threats always there and the people you meet on the street, they might be shaking your hands one day, and the next day they'll be setting up IEDs to blow you up and shoot you…
Everybody had weapons. It was really hard to distinguish between someone who was armed against you or that was part of the tribal norm, because there was a lot of inter-tribal rivalry and fighting. And we're coming into that situation, I'm talking in general, Australians or even Americans coming into that situation, it's different politics, different sense of normal. We couldn't tell, we could not tell.
