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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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>>the logical end point for another ...
end point?
Don’t worry, Comrade Chairman FlexObumble gots this “end point” covered.
To put a more exact point on my first post, if we determine a particular ideology presents such a threat to our national security as to warrant use of our armed forces, we should be prepared to remain on site so long as it takes to replace that ideology. We should leave other squabbles to the UN.
I don’t think we had to worry about precluding Russia’s occupation of Afghanistan. That had been tried before.
War crimes?
Bet this doesn’t even make it to the front page of the NY Times for one day, let alone 30 days as the Abu Ghraib scandal did.
Trumps fault no doubt
Islam is Satanism on steroids!
That was my point - we never tried to replace that ideology. It wasn’t a matter of time, we never started.
I am so stinking glad that the Idiot in the White House and GWB went to war, pulled them out of there, turning both the Afghanistan and Iraq nations back under muzzie control and killed over 5,000 additional US military personnel for absolutely NOTHING. Just like the stinking war I fought in, Vietnam. 58,000 plus dead, for nothing, absolutely NOTHING. I am sick of it.
“Obama wants to make a deal with the taliban. It will happen before he leaves office.”
Done two years ago. He set up the Taliban “offices” in Qatar.
Clock boy’s new home, and where Hussein’s liberated Gitmo terrorists often go.
It’s pretty obvious all somebody needs is a good job...
Yep.....read that in the Times Of India right after his 08 win.
I thought I read ISIS just moved into Afghanistan and has declared jihad on the Taliban.
Frankly, it may be too soon to decide Russia has no intentions re Afghanistan and it may also be a moot point. See Iraq and Syria. Arguably, the ME is the center of a chess board in a number of regards.
Is there some reason they’re referred to as the Taliban and NOT Muslims?
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“Kandahar International Airport”
A scary phrase in and of itself. I wonder, if we have a bunch of burkha-clad female TSA screeners at our airports, do they have blondes in bikinis at theirs?
listening now....thanks
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