Posted on 10/06/2009 10:56:42 AM PDT by Cindy
SNIPPET: "The US military now claims that more than 100 enemy fighters were killed during the Oct. 3 assault on two joint Afghan and US outposts in Nuristan province."
SNIPPET: "The US military has also backtracked from its initial statement that the assault was carried out by a "Nuristani tribal militia" and that "the sources of the conflict in the area involve complex tribal, religious and economic dynamics."
"Additionally, ISAF now believes that while the attack was conducted by local anti-Afghan forces, ... local Taliban and elements of Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin may have helped facilitate the attack," the US military stated in a press release today."
(Excerpt) Read more at longwarjournal.org ...
Previously...
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2009/10/us_afghan_troops_bea.php
“US, Afghan troops beat back bold enemy assault in eastern Afghanistan”
By BILL ROGGIO
October 4, 2009 10:03 AM
the boys who lost everything but their lives need help
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2355940/posts
http://www.longwarjournal.org/threat-matrix/archives/2009/10/nuristan_base_nearly_destroyed.php
“Nuristan base nearly destroyed in Taliban attack”
By BILL ROGGIOOctober 8, 2009 10:41 PM
BRIEFS
Publication: Terrorism Monitor Volume: 7 Issue: 34
November 13, 2009 12:37 PM Age: 3 hrs
“TALIBAN AIM TO ELIMINATE U.S. BASES IN NURISTAN”
SNIPPET: “In the wake of an attack that nearly overran a U.S. military outpost in Afghanistan’s Nuristan province, the Taliban have released a statement in the name of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan describing the attack as part of a larger campaign to drive the U.S. military out of their bases in Nuristan. The statement appeared in the October-November issue of the Taliban’s Al-Sumud magazine.
An October 3 attack by some 300 Taliban and Hizb-i-Islami fighters on Combat Outpost (COP) Keating (occupied jointly by U.S. and ANA forces) left eight Americans dead and 24 wounded. The attack on COP Keating was similar, in both scale and ferocity, to the Taliban attack on the U.S. outpost at Wanat in July, 2008 that left nine U.S. soldiers dead and 27 wounded.”
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