Taliban suicide attack on Nato base wounds 50 US soldiers

Dawn ^ | September 10th 2011 | Staff/AFP

[Cardhu]

A suicide attack at a Nato base in central Afghanistan injured 89 people, including 50 American soldiers.

JALALABAD: A suicide bomber driving a truck attacked an advance Nato combat post in central Afghanistan, wounding 89 people including 50 American soldiers, the United States Army said Sunday.

The Taliban claimed responsibility on their Internet site for Saturday’s attack, news of which came as the world marked the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks that killed almost 3,000 people in the United States.

US Army spokesman Major David Eastburn said: “It happened at 5:15 pm on Saturday.

“It detonated near the entry oint at a combat outpost, resulting in 89 wounded in action and a 20-foot hole in the wall.”

[steveshoveler]

You might be confusing MacArthur with Curtis LeMay.

[treetopsandroofs]

I think AP is under pressure not to report any US deaths this close to Hussein’s terrorist buddies’ victory day.

Pretty high number of “wounded” without deaths.

Believe nothing from Hussein’s fawning media.

[semaj]

Never heard of him. I based the comment on some biographical comments made by MacArthur, which are also mirrored by Von Clausewitz’s thoughts on the theory of Total War.