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Afghanistan
Taliban claims 4 of its fighters had enrolled before the attack on army base
2017-04-23
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Talibs group claim four of its fighters had enrolled in the 209th Shaheen Corps months before to plan and coordinate the attack on the army base.

The Taliban
...the Pashtun equiovalent of men...
group front man Zabiullah Mujahid released the picture of the ten jacket wallahs who launched the attack on Friday afternoon.

Taliban claims around 500 army personnel were killed or maimed during the attack.

However,
women are made to be loved, not understood...
the 209th Corps of the Afghan Army said around 11 armu personnel bit the dust in the attack and around 15 others were maimed.

The murderous Moslems involved in the attack have been identified as Ahmad Safi Balkhi, Mullah Lal Mohammad 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..
i, Hafiz Nematullah Kabul
...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either....
i, Qari Feda Mohammad Baghlani, Hafiz Zabiullah Kunduzi, Eng. Talha Wardak, Mullah Jawad Kandahari, Hafiz Zia-ur-Rehman Khosti, Abdul Basir Parwani, and Mohammad Nabi Ghaznawi.

The attack forced President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani
...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. ..
to make an unannounced visit to the northern Balkh province.

The Ministry of Defense confirmed the attack was carried out by a group of at least ten murderous Moslems who had disguised themselves in the Afghan army uniform to infiltrate inside the base.

The defense officials are saying that one of the suicide bombers was nabbed
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while the other one managed to detonate his explosives, opening the way for the other murderous Moslems to start firing on the soldiers.

In the meantime, Colonel John Thomas, a front man for the U.S. military’s Central Command, told Rooters earlier that "We’re talking probably more than 50 casualties."

Thomas further added "There is a mosque and a dining facility on the base that seemed to, at this point from our reports, be the subject of significant attack from enemy forces."

However,
women are made to be loved, not understood...
the 209th Shaheen Corps later said 11 army personnel bit the dust and around 15 others sustained injuries, rejecting the reports given by the officials regarding the massive casualties inflicted to the security forces.

Posted by:Fred

#2  seems thia shoud be wot ops

The report of the attack was P.1, lord garth. The discussion afterward is P.2: WoT Background.
Posted by: trailing wife   2017-04-23 10:42  

#1  seems thia shoud be wot ops

also, this infiltration tactic seems to have worked against the Afghan govt at least a half dozen times before - haven't they ever heard of daily passwords
Posted by: lord garth   2017-04-23 00:19