Posted on 03/04/2009 3:25:11 PM PST by SandRat
BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan, March 4, 2009 – Three contractors suffered minor injuries in a suicide vehicle-borne improvised explosive device attack this afternoon near Bagram Airfield, Combined Joint Task Force 101 officials said today.
The attack occurred outside the perimeter of the base when a vehicle exploded near an entry control point. The driver, who was carrying explosives, abandoned the vehicle before it detonated. The explosive he was carrying detonated as he ran away from the vehicle. The attacker was killed in the second explosion. It is unknown if there were additional personnel in the vehicle.
No military or Afghan civilian casualties have been reported.
The injured contractors are being treated in the hospital on base.
(From a Combined Joint Task Force 101 news release.)
He works for GD, on the MRAP vehicle.
Scary times there.
This president, who is betraying all our young men and women (at my age, they’re ALL young and I feel damned protective...) serving their country doesn’t have a clue as to what bravery and self-sacrifice really mean. Not a clue and that’s dangerous.
I fear for him and with the weather starting to warm up over there it will only get worse. Pray for our military over there, all of FR, it's only going to get worse with the "O" occupying the White House cuz the terrorists know he won't defend his country.
My youngest son just returned from 15 month Bahgram and said it was the safest place to be over there in his opinion.
Our thanks and best wishes to your son.
I was in Bagram and Kabul. I felt safer there at both places than I did in New Orleans.
My daughter was in Bagram last summer. She said the only time she was nervous was when she was riding in a convoy from Bagram to the Embassy in Kabul. Her daddy was nervous when he was outside the wire driving up from Phu Bai to Hue. Guess it runs in the family.
See my Post #10
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