Left to Right: 1) Jack dumps another load of al-Qaida Onions into the soup; 2) Jack, Zorro, and Musafir in the Prison Yard.  Jack OK's the stale bread shipment laying on the ground in the prison courtyard; 3) Major Ezmerai renders a salute in the prison stockade courtyard after receiving a jar of Pulacharke POW Pasta Sauce in the prison yard.  Ezmerai and Jack's other men were freed later that day by the Supreme Court; 4) Jack inspects his famous POW Onion Soup; 5) One of the Guard Towers at Pulacharke; 6) Brent and Jack, "Yeah, these are my %$&*#$%' words on this site."  Note: Musafir (#2) was wounded days later helping save our lives during the December al-Qaida takeover of Pulacharke Prison (they were trying to kill us).

Ingredients

1-     Big Crappy Old Tin Pot
1-     Leftover Hot-wired Taliban Prison Stove
7-     Bottles of Extremely Boiled Afghan Water
7-     Gan da na (Afghan White Onions – big)
4-     Gan da na (Afghan Red Onions – small)
1-     Small Handful of Gritty Arab Pepper
5-     Cluster of Rotten Afghan Garlic
6-     Packs of Lipton Soup (Chicken Noodle)
1-     All the Spice You Can Find

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To Make Sure we can keep living
on Onion Soup for another 10 years-

Get any old, crumpled up, noodle soup packs in your cupboard out and send them to us through our Contact page.  THANKS to Lisa and Adair for a shipment of 50 PACKS on May 11, 2005!

Preparation:

• Chop up, onions, boil it all for 30 minutes

• Burn yourself moving pot on wobbly stove

• Simmer the whole thing for 1 hour

• Burn yourself 2 more times when power goes out

• Stir with flimsy Pakistani soup spoon

• Burn yourself again when power comes on

• Hear Brent complaining that he hates onions

• Hear Ed complaining about too much garlic

• Pour into glass cups

• Dip in Afghan Prison Bread

• Get complaints about gas and stomach cramps

• Add lousy Afghan salt

• Enjoy profusely – run to bathroom later

• Take 500 mgs of Ciprofloxacin for dysentery
   

• Start all over again two days later…

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Note to those slimy Weblogs:   This recipe is copyrighted too, moron.

Care Packages:

We have received care packages from all over the United States, and for those we are extremely grateful.  Because we mostly receive rice, bread, and basic food like potatoes, many people have sent us tuna fish, spices, Ramen Noodles, Chicken Soup.  These things are greatly appreciated.  We cannot overemphasize our appreciation and thanks to the people that have sent us cards and packages over these past nine months.  We can receive almost anything (like no weapons, explosives, or contraband please).  Just put it in a box and ship it to us. 

If you would like to know what we need:

• Chicken Noodle Soup (Stocked up by friends on May 10th)

• Ramen Noodles

• Spices (great for boiled prison rice)

• Hey, we appreciate anything

The Officers at Pulacharke Prison could also use some things:

• Socks, Gloves, long underwear (no matter how old or used)

• Flashlights & PR-24 Batons (for all you police out there)

• BDU Belts, Desert Boots (even used ones are great)

• Children's & Woman's clothes (they only make $40 a month)

• Toys and Stuffed Animals for their children

• Go to the Contact Us page for more info.

The Final Word:

"Nobody ever said killing Bin Laden was going to be easy!"

"Besides, we didn't call this Mission Difficult, we called it Mission Impossible.”

Photo courtesy of a Kabul photographer & Polaris Images