KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Taliban insurgents armed with rockets, grenades and suicide vests stormed the giant U.S.-run Bagram Air Field before dawn Wednesday, triggering an eight-hour firefight that killed an American contractor and at least 10 attackers and wounded nine U.S. service members.
As troops and contractors huddled in secure bunkers, the militants fired their weapons over American defenses into the base, according to Maj. Virginia McCabe, a spokeswoman for U.S. forces at Bagram. White smoke could be seen rising from the garrison as U.S. attack helicopters whirred overhead.
It was the second major Taliban assault in the Kabul area in as many days, breaking a nearly three-month lull in insurgent attacks around the Afghan capital. Eighteen people, including five U.S. soldiers and a Canadian colonel, were killed Tuesday in a suicide car bombing in Kabul.
Seriously. Why isn’t this plastered all over the news like it should be? Every time an insurgent farted near the Green Zone in Iraq the press was all over it and touting the failings of the Bush administration and how it was indicative of the futility of fighting that part of the War on Terror. Of course once the Obama administration took over it was more than happy to claim victory in Iraq and take credit for all of the work done there by the previous administration. Don’t get me wrong… I know that this kind of thing is standard practice for all administrations.
My issue is this: we have just seen a full frontal assault on the biggest US Military base in Afghanistan and there is pretty much NOTHING in the main stream media about it. It’s almost like it never happened yet this is HUGE. Attacking Bagram just north of ECP 3 within a few hundred yards of (what used to be when I was there) the Ranger and SF compounds is just brazen. The fear isn’t there anymore. The Taliban wants to lure the US into using methods that will cause civilian casualties and they want to terrorize the FOBBITs so they go home and bitch about how “bad” it is over there. They know what they’re doing and they’re working… and most America is either ignorant that the attack even occurred, don’t understand the significance, or just don’t care. Pathetic.
Success has a thousand fathers, failure is an orphan… but embarrassing strategic shortsightedness is an abortion.
If you want to educate yourself, the story about this is here and the photo is from here.
Tags: Afghanistan, attack, Bagram, Barack Obama, ECP 3, Kabul, Taliban, Terrorists, War on Terror
“Eighteen people, including five U.S. soldiers and a Canadian colonel, were killed Tuesday in a suicide car bombing in Kabul.”
I think, if you root through the news reports you’ll find that Colonel was an American (West Point graduate) from New Jersey.
Aaaand This is why i come to your site. Because I know full well that nothing like this could possibly be shown in a normal news network while Obama’s marriage to the media is still on. Thank you Sniper for help keeping the masses (or at least those that frequent your site) informed about important stories like this.
agree with T-Sig… the wars were all about Bush-bashing and his spending. Obongo and the Dims spending is so excessive that they are apprently trying to avoid passing a budget so the red ink isnt plastered everywhere.
There was both an American and a Canadian Colonel killed in the bombing, as well as two Lieutenant Colonels, a Staff Sergeant and a Specialist. There was also a Canadian General in the convoy, but he was amongst the uninjured.
kandahar base was hit today. doubt we will hear anything.
http://www.ctvbc.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20100522/Afghanistan-Attack-100522/20100522/?hub=BritishColumbiaHome
That is about the only thing I have seen on the KAF assault. I saw another article earlier which was very similar to first half of this one. Except where this article says the attack was small and beaten off right away, the earlier one, which included the release from the spokesperson, except that attack was supposed to be still ongoing.
Because Michael Yon is in Thailand covering their almost Civil War outbreak?
Eeyore, dude. You effin win. Epic.
I am glad that someone is reporting the truth Thank you Sniper ever in Fla give me a hollar and we will go hav a Bruski. I wish all of America would read the truth about what is going on and stop all the pussyfooting about. I say let the troops fight the war because thats what we are in. DROP the ROE and open fire..
Sniper,
Thanks for this site. I just had a rush of memories from my time at Kandy Land in 06-07. Flying Apaches in that shithole was quite amazing. Firefights almost every time we launched, rocket attacks nightly, friends dying and losing limbs yet the rest of the world was watching Iraq. It was like we didn’t exist in Afghanistan. Everything was a U.S. fighting war until we turned it over to the losers called NATO. Within days, entire villages were lost back to the Taliban since the NATO leaders would not allow their troops to fight and gave them little or nothing to fight with. such coawardice. But I still feel we accomplished our charter and we won our battles!