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2010-05-22 Afghanistan

Afghanistan's Kandahar military base under attack

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Posted by tipper 2010-05-22 13:57|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 I hope there were lots of Apaches waiting for them in the dark.

Posted by Old Patriot 2010-05-22 14:07|| 2010-05-22 14:07|| Front Page Top

#2 Update
A small number of NATO personnel were wounded, the spokesman said.

An intelligence source on the Kandahar base said three rockets had hit the base. One hit a helicopter terminal used by foreign troops, wounding four foreigners, one hit a shopping area and another did not hit any significant target.

The source said the Taliban came close to the airfield, fired rockets and then foreign helicopters hit back at them with gunfire.

People on the sprawling base were ordered to go into bunkers, a journalist there said. "The base came under rocket fire, which has been pretty much off and on every night I've been here for the last three weeks, maybe three or four rockets," Lucian Read said.

The Taliban have announced an offensive from May 20 against the government, foreign forces and diplomats in Afghanistan in response to NATO plans for an operation against the group's southern stronghold of Kandahar.

Posted by tipper 2010-05-22 14:50|| 2010-05-22 14:50|| Front Page Top

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