Posted on 12/21/2015 10:45:18 PM PST by Mariner
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A suicide attacker rammed an explosives-laden motorcycle into a joint NATO-Afghan patrol Monday, killing six American troops in the deadliest attack on international forces since August. Two U.S. troops and an Afghan were wounded.
The soldiers were targeted as they moved through a village near Bagram Airfield, the largest U.S. military facility in Afghanistan, NATO and Afghan officials said. The Taliban claimed responsibility.
A U.S. official confirmed that six American troops were killed and two wounded. An Afghan was also wounded. The official was not authorized to discuss the incident publicly so spoke on condition of anonymity.
"Our heartfelt sympathies go out to the families and friends of those affected in this tragic incident, especially during this holiday season," U.S. Army Brig. Gen. William Shoffner, head of public affairs at NATO's Resolute Support base in the Afghan capital Kabul, said in a statement.
In New York, Police Commissioner William Bratton said Monday that a New York City police detective, Joseph Lemm, was one of the six American killed in the attack.
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Much of that country needs to be leveled, but it will never happen. Not by the Russians, and certainly not by the US (even under a President Trump or Cruz).
Prayers.
I sure hope this bit of bad news doesn’t cause Ovomit’s Golf Handicap to go up.
Never mind, he doesn’t watch Cable News so it won’t screw up his Golf Game.
My prayers for the murdered.
The Taliban was a creation of the Pakistani intelligence agency, the ISI.
Post 9/11 nothing meaningful was done about Pakistan’s role in terrorism in the world just like Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Arabs.
Don’t we have a young Army or Marine officer who is serving time in Leavenworth prison for ordering his troops to kill a guy on a motorcycle who he thought was a suicide bomber? Stupid ROE are getting our troops killed needlessly.
Paging Cindy Sheehan.
Get out now. If you haven’t seen “This is what victory looks like,” you should watch it. Afghans are the worst people on the planet.
I’ll match them with rabid democraps any day.
Rats are certainly more of a problem for us than those inbred Afghans.
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