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AmeriKans Seek Revenge in Afghanistan
That's right, America -- those boys DIED for NOTHING!
Also see: What American Troops Blood is Buying In Afghanistan
On Afghan War’s Anniversary, US Troop Morale Plummeting
And the war-mongers want more troops to "buy time?"
The END of the EMPIRE is CLOSER than you THINK!
"US details fierce Afghan battle, confirms militants breached post; Six-hour attack raises questions over remote bases" by Todd Pitman, Associated Press | October 8, 2009
KABUL, Afghanistan - Insurgents fought their way inside an American base in Afghanistan last weekend in a rare security breach before they were driven back under heavy fire during the deadliest battle for US troops in more than a year, a US official said yesterday.
The bold assault raised serious questions about the security of thinly manned outposts spread across the troubled nation’s volatile border region with Pakistan and reflected growing insurgent resolve. It comes as pressure is building on the Obama administration to decide a way forward in the conflict. Yesterday was the eighth anniversary of the US attack that ousted the Taliban for harboring Osama bin Laden after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on Washington and New York.
See how that COVER STORY lie is PLACED EVERYWHERE in the AmeriKan jewpress? And they wonder why we don't believe a damn word they say.
Saturday’s nearly six-hour battle in mountainous Kamdesh district, near the eastern border with Pakistan, left eight American and three Afghan soldiers dead - one of the heaviest US losses of life in a single battle since the war began. NATO officials said around 100 insurgents were killed.
Nice round, unconfirmed, body count, 'eh?
Translation: They don't know.
Most US installations in Iraq and Afghanistan are heavily guarded with rings of razor wire, huge sand-filled barriers, blast walls, and security cameras. It is extremely rare for insurgents to breach such defenses.
Yeah, that SURE IS ODD, huh?
Major T.G. Taylor, an American public affairs officer, said it was unclear how the attackers penetrated the base or how many there were....
But we know we killed 100 of them. Not 99 or 101, 100!!!!
Taylor said 24 Americans and 10 Afghan soldiers were wounded during the fighting. Large portions of the base burned down, probably from incoming rocket and machine gun fire, he said. The evening before the attack, insurgents comprising mostly local Nuristani fighters began warning villagers “that something was going to go down and asked them to evacuate,’’ Taylor said in a telephone interview from nearby Jalalabad.
Oh, so it is REALLY the PEOPLE WHO LIVE THERE, huh?
Not "terrorists" or "militants" or "insurgents" but the PEOPLE of the NEIGHBORHOOD that DON'T WANT FOREIGN KILLERS in their communities!
Imagine that!
It’s unclear whether civilians fled, but local police units abandoned the village - nearly all except the police chief, who was later captured and executed. In Washington, the Pentagon said the remote outpost was slated to close as part of a consolidation of far-flung bases....
Coalition forces fended off the assault with “a combination of close air support and small arms fire,’’ Taylor said. NATO officials have said the coalition used artillery and helicopter gunships.
Translation: Bombs were dropped on heads.
Attackers were able to “breach the perimeter of one of the bases and get inside,’’ Taylor said. “They got a foothold on the base. But coalition and Afghan national army forces consolidated their positions, retook the parts of the base the enemy was on, and reestablished security.’’
Then why we leaving?
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KABUL - American troops have abandoned an isolated firebase where eight US soldiers were killed in a fierce assault by insurgents last weekend, military officials said yesterday.
So those kids DIED for NOTHING!
The departure from the base in the Kamdesh district of Nuristan Province, in northeastern Afghanistan, was part of a previously planned “repositioning’’ of troops, NATO’s International Security Assistance Force said in a statement.
About a WEEK TOO LATE, isn't it?
The Taliban, in a statement, said they had driven the Americans out.
That's what it is going to take, isn't it, because AmeriKa's politicians and leaders sure as hell are not listening to us.
The daylong battle at Kamdesh, in which at least four members of the Afghan security forces and 100 attackers reportedly died, was reminiscent of a much-scrutinized engagement in the same area in July 2008. In that battle, nine US soldiers were killed and their remote firebase was nearly overrun.
Translation: The AmeriKan military DID NOT LEARN a GOD-DAMN THING!!!!! And BECAUSE of that, MORE KIDS are DEAD!!!!
Today, insurgents penetrated the base’s perimeters, military officials acknowledged - a rare occurrence in clashes between Taliban fighters and much better-armed Western forces.
The pullout from the battered Kamdesh base was described as part of a larger strategy laid out by US Army General Stanley A. McChrystal, commander of Western forces in Afghanistan....
NATO has not specified how many bases were dismantled as part of the pullback, which mainly affected installations in the rugged mountains of eastern Afghanistan, near the Pakistani border.
I am ALL for that anywhere and everywhere! I don't want to be an empire anymore!
US forces destroyed what was left of the Kamdesh base before departing, military officials said.
So ALL that TIME, BLOOD, and TAXPAYER MONEY building and staffing the thing was a WASTE, huh?
A Taliban spokesman, Zabiullah Mujahid, told Western news agencies by phone that the Taliban flag is flying over the site....
With Western troop casualties at record levels as the war enters its ninth year, the NATO-led coalition yesterday disclosed the death of another of its soldiers a day earlier in a roadside bombing in southern Afghanistan. The soldier’s nationality was not immediately released.
Meanwhile, Afghan officials said a joint operation by Western and Afghan troops had killed a senior militant commander in Herat Province, which borders Iran.
They said the overnight raid left about 20 militants dead, including Ghulam Yahya Akbari, who served as the mayor of Herat before going over to the Taliban. He had been terrorizing the city for months with ambushes, abductions, and other attacks.
Akbari’s defection to the insurgent side had been seen by many as a sign of rising frustration with the government of President Hamid Karzai, who is in the midst of a struggle over his August bid for reelection. The vote was tainted by allegations of fraud, and results of a recount, based on a statistical sampling of suspect ballots, are expected to be released in coming weeks.
Elsewhere in the country, a suicide bomber struck a road construction project in the eastern province of Paktia, killing five workers and injuring four people, provincial police said. 
