Taliban suicide bombers assaulted a joint U.S.-Afghan air base in eastern Afghanistan early Sunday, detonating explosives at the gate and sparking a gun battle that lasted at least two hours with American helicopters firing down at militants before the attackers were defeated.
Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said the attackers detonated a car bomb at the entrance of Jalalabad air base before storming it. A spokesman for the Afghan Defense Ministry, Gen. Mohammad Zahir Azimi, confirmed that car bombs were used at the gate but said none of the militants were able to enter. The NATO military coalition also described it as a failed attack.
"We can confirm insurgents, including multiple suicide bombers, attacked Jalalabad Airfield this morning. None of the attackers succeeded in breaching the perimeter," Lt. Col. Hagen Messer, a spokesman for the international military coalition, said in an email.
He said that the fighting had ended by mid morning and that reports showed one member of the Afghan security forces was killed. Several foreign troops were wounded, but Messer did not give any numbers or details. Read more
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Its practically impossible to defend anywhere successfully against people who are willing to kill themselves, but it doesn't stop us supporting our troops who are doing their best to stabilize unstable hell hole against combatants who sacrifice their own lives for there cause. The Taliban know that all they have to do is play a waiting game as public opinion will not allow our forces to be in Afghanistan indeterminately.
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Where you shocked by my Blog headline? seems crazy doesn't it, well they are not funding the Taliban yet at least not directly, the UK does its bit for the Jihad in Afghanistan by sending hundreds of UK borne Jihadists to the Country to fight British and ISAF troops.Sadly the UK is the hub of terrorist activity due to its non existent border controls and its huge Foreign ghettos, which could easily be mistaken for a middle eastern Country.Now we have the crackpot William Hague who wants to arm the Syrian Rebels , funny how he calls them rebels and freedom fighters, when they are the same type of Islamist killers like Al Queada. Oh yeah and just to round it off the British tax payers money is going to pay the families of Suicide Bombers Maybe they should fund the IRA as well? Oh I forgot they got that bunch to run Northern Ireland.
