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| Baldo | Sep 11 2011, 08:20 AM Post #1 |
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77 U.S. troops wounded in attack on Afghan base The Associated Press Date: Sunday Sep. 11, 2011 7:19 AM ET KABUL, Afghanistan — Nearly 80 American soldiers were wounded and two Afghan civilians were killed in a Taliban truck bombing targeting an American base in eastern Afghanistan, NATO said Sunday, a stark reminder that the war in Afghanistan still rages 10 years after the Sept. 11 terror attacks against the United States. The blast, which occurred late Saturday, shaved the facades from shops outside the Combat Outpost Sayed Abad in Wardak province and broke windows in government offices nearby, said Roshana Wardak, a former parliamentarian who runs a clinic in the nearby town of the same name. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack. Eight wounded civilians were brought to Wardak's clinic, two of them with wounds serious enough that they were sent to Kabul. She said one 3-year-old girl died of her wounds on the way to the clinic. The attack was carried out by a Taliban suicide bomber who detonated a large bomb inside a truck carrying firewood, NATO said. It was unclear how many foreign and Afghan soldiers were serving on the base. http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/TopStories/20110911/afghan-suicide-attack-american-base-110910/ |
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| kbp | Sep 11 2011, 11:24 AM Post #2 |
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"...one 3-year-old girl died of her wounds on the way to the clinic." An intentional act creating results like that should be difficult to justify using any mindset. |
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| comelately | Sep 11 2011, 12:07 PM Post #3 |
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No problem. "Any act that serves the will of Allah needs no justification". Or: "What is a life of one person (man, woman, child, whatever) in comparison to the eternal happiness of all workers and peasants we are struggling to bring about?". Or (my favorite): "Who cares? I am going to Paradise, where I will get a chance to rape 72 teenagers!". Or... |
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| kbp | Sep 11 2011, 01:44 PM Post #4 |
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If suicide is acceptable and paradise for them is only that far away, I'm all for helping them. |
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| LTC8K6 | Sep 11 2011, 03:01 PM Post #5 |
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Assistant to The Devil Himself
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They put nails or ball bearings around the explosive charge to try to kill/wound as many as possible. They will say that we do the same thing with anti-personnel munitions, but we don't intentionally set them off in crowds of civilians. |
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| Quasimodo | Sep 12 2011, 10:46 AM Post #6 |
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a somewhat tabloid account from Debka (ie, not guaranteed to be 100% accurate); but it does cause me concern that we may not be being told everything; and also, that it is our Special Forces units which are being targeted (perhaps betrayed by the Pakistani ISI?) in these attacks) :
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| Baldo | Sep 12 2011, 11:04 AM Post #7 |
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Bomb explodes at U.S. base in Afghanistan, wounding 77 Americans .....Sayed Abad (Base where explosion ocurred) is seven miles (12 kilometers) east of the Tangi Valley, where the Taliban on Aug. 6 shot down a U.S. military helicopter, killing 30 Americans. Many of the (those) dead belonged to the U.S. Navy's SEAL Team 6 - the same elite unit that killed bin Laden during a May 2 cross-border raid into Pakistan, where al-Qaida's leadership was driven. It was the deadliest single loss for American forces in the decade-old war. http://www.twincities.com/news/ci_18872174?source=rss We can only depend on news reports. But was this attack in response to killing Bin Laden? Others in the Special Ops field were never happy with the Obama Administration namely Seals Six Team. is this true? DEBKAfile's military sources: Talban has focused its most recent campaign on US special operations forces who are bearing the brunt of the Afghanistan war. I certainly am no military expert but it seems a poor use of our best secret & supposedly stealth forces. Edited by Baldo, Sep 12 2011, 11:06 AM.
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