Posted on 12/09/2015 9:12:05 AM PST by amorphous
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- A Taliban assault on Afghanistan's Kandahar International Airport has so far left 37 civilians and Afghan security forces dead and another 35 injured.
Nine Afghan Taliban militants have died. Several people, including women and children, were taken hostage in Tuesday's attack. Some degree of fighting continued Wednesday, but it is unclear if the Taliban threat has ended.
The headquarters for the joint NATO and Afghan military effort is in the airport. The Taliban militants wearing suicide vests breached the front gate of the facility in what a pro-Taliban website referred to as an attack "against domestic and foreign forces."
The Taliban said "martyrdom seekers" entered the base undetected to start "thunderous attacks on foreign and hireling personnel," killing up to 80 soldiers -- an unverified claim.
The assault came one day after the Taliban attacked a police checkpoint in Kandahar, killing three officers, Al Jazeera reported. Two militants were killed in the incident.
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There must be some feisty young Muslims who need a new home!
Let’s get out that big WELCOME mat!
Looks like they found it........................
Obama has gots it covered
Obama wants to make a deal with the taliban. It will happen before he leaves office.
Gun free zone
We were dumb for staying in that hell hole one minute longer than necessary to kill every terrorist and Taliban member we could find. None of them should ever have gone to Gitmo. They should have fed the crows.
There’s that crappy little jornolist (sic) word: “militants”.
These kinds of word games kill people. By refusing to call them terrorists, they elevate them to an equal moral plane with any other military grouping. They are not. They are today’s pirates, brigands and murderers, to be killed on site.
Moslems simply doing what moslems do! Or at least what KORANIZED moslems do!
How many prisoners will Gitmo hold? 500 - 1,000? It’s were we need to send these treasonous political sellouts in D.C., while waiting trial, after Trump is elected president!
the logical end point for another nation building exercise in a muzzie hell hole.
Did NATO speak mean words? That is the reason dems think radical muslims are ticked off, right?
This has nothing whatsoever to do with Islam.
You are right. just a misunderstood wedding!
If we're spending our treasure to "build a nation", then by Golly let's create a Judeo-Christian nation! One that has a Constitution based on freedom, service to others, and malice toward none.
It may have been in this interview:
/sarc
islam is a Religion Of Peace (TM).
better take away our guns zer0, so we cant protect ourselves from your boys when they try another one here.
Afghanistan was the perfect place to use tactical nukes one they were routed from the villages and headed to the mountains.
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