Posted on 09/18/2012 8:15:21 AM PDT by pabianice
IT WAS supposed to be impregnable - the safest military base in the world. A veritable fortress positioned in the middle of the arid, empty Helmand desert, isolated but not vulnerable.
It was often said of Camp Bastion that the only correct decision that Britain made during its torrid history in Afghanistan was to build the base in the middle of nowhere, with isolation as its primary strength.
Anyone approaching from any direction should be easily spotted, tracked, identified - and, should they pose a threat, destroyed. That, at least, was the theory.
But the events of last Friday, when a force of Taliban gunmen managed to move up to and breach the security at Bastion at about 10pm local time, supposedly without being seen or heard, have sent a shock wave through Nato's high command.
Initial reports state that the Taliban had been monitoring the eastern side of Camp Bastion for at least two weeks and had been posing as farmers in a maize plantation.
The attack only ever had one aim. It was a suicide mission designed to demonstrate that the Taliban can attack any Nato installation, no matter how secure.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Great article, dispels the myth of many who believe that American troops own the night.
Myth Romney .... IS THE NEW DUKAKSIS ... another gay-marriage socialist health care liberal ....
Stick a fork in it, obamao wins second term? smh
Panetta needs to go as a lesson to the rest.
No, I am saying I don’t think Rom will win. obamoids are begging more koolaid than obama can dish out, it is sickening.
Too many fox-hole butt-buddies were on guard duty?
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