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| Afghanistan |
| Taliban Attack Former NATO Base in South Afghanistan |
| 2014-11-29 |
| [An Nahar] Taliban hard boyz have launched a prolonged attack on a major Afghan army base that was handed over by NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... forces last month, officials said Friday, in another sign the Lions of Islam are on the offensive as foreign troops leave. Camp Bastion, now know as Shorabak, was Britannia's biggest military base in Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province and was a key airfield for U.S.-led NATO operations in the Taliban heartlands of southern Afghanistan. The attack started on Thursday evening and continued on Friday, the Afghan military said. Thursday also saw a Taliban attack on a foreign guesthouse in Kabul and a jacket wallah target a British embassy vehicle in a blast that killed six people. "Last night a group of myrmidon tried to storm Shorabak camp. One detonated a suicide boom-mobile at the gate and others tried to enter," Ghulam Farooq Parwani, a senior Afghan army commander at the camp, told AFP. "In the fighting overnight, there were more suicide kabooms and 20 other Lions of Islam were killed. "Two injured Lions of Islam have been cornered and will be hunted down." Parwani said five Afghan soldiers had died, but dismissed Taliban claims that a far larger number of soldiers had been killed or aircraft and tanks had been destroyed. Also on Friday, a suicide attack elsewhere in Helmand killed four people in Nawzad district, and a blast in a mosque in the eastern province of Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. injured 26 people. |
| Posted by:Fred |