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Taliban Attacks Camp Where Al Qaeda Mole Killed CIA Agents
 [NBCNEWS] The Taliban...Arabic for students... has claimed credit for a Monday suicide kaboom on a U.S. base in Afghanistan that was once the site of one of the deadliest attacks on CIA personnel in the agency's history. The bomber blew up an explosive-packed vehicle at Camp Chapman in Khost Province. There are no reports of U.S. casualties, but there were casualties amond the Afghan troops guarding the base. The attack came as U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis was visiting the Afghan capital of Kabul. In 2009, when the facility was known as Forward Operating Base Chapman, a Jordanian doctor was brought to the camp to deliver valuable information about al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawhari. He was not searched on arrival, and detonated a boom jacket in the middle of the CIA personnel gathered to greet him. He killed seven CIA officers and contractors, a Jordanian intelligence agent and an Afghan CIA employee. Six other CIA officers and contractors were maimed. The camp is in territory dominated by a Taliban faction known as the Haqqani Network. It has been attacked by jacket wallahs several times since 2009, including in 2012 and 2015. The 2015 attack, at a checkpoint near the main gate, killed 33 people. Posted by: Fred 2017-04-25 |
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