Posted on 03/14/2012 3:22:56 PM PDT by gandalftb
A tense visit to Afghanistan by Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta got off to an alarming start on Wednesday when a stolen pick-up truck sped onto a ramp alongside a runway at a British military airfield and crashed into a ditch as Mr. Panetta’s plane was landing.
Pentagon officials said the Afghan driver emerged from the vehicle in flames.
The runway incident unfolded Wednesday morning as Mr. Panetta landed at Camp Bastion, a British air field that adjoins Camp Leatherneck, a vast United States Marine base in Helmand Province, next to Kandahar.
Pentagon spokesman, said the truck had been stolen from a coalition service member.
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No Afghans can be trusted, none, ever.
The truck was filled with fuel cans. How could the attacker have known which unmarked gray C-17 cargo aircraft to attack at exactly the right time?
Only pure luck has Panetta alive today.
Hence the reason every friendly disarmed when mixed with locals, meeting Panetta.
You're doing it wrong.
Panetta runs Afgan off runway. Man burned!
For some reason I thought Panetta had their guns taken away because the DHS thinks military is filled with potential terrorists while the Muzzie terrorists are the Fed’s friends!
Panetta didn’t order the weapons taken...it was the new general of US troops in Afghanistan. It’s very likely to turn into some US policy that if Afghan dignitaries show up on any base...you have to meet them without any weapons in your possession. I have doubts that any junior enlisted guys will agree to this order...and it’ll be just the big-wig officers who attend such meetings in the future.
It’s getting as bad over there as in East Oakland!
It would have been ironic if the jihadi had gotten Panetta because all the US soldiers that could have stopped him had been disarmed for the visit.
At least he wasn’t taking incoming mortar fire like poor Hilary did.
LOL!!
Ha..all bush ever got was someone throwing a shoe at him!
LOL!!
Ha..all bush ever got was someone throwing a shoe at him!
Praise be to Allah!
>>Panetta Is Safe After Breach Near His Plane at Afghan Base
Pity.
I wonder if that driver has a United Nations driver’s license.
PANETTA IS SAFE!! THANK OBAMA ALL MIGHTY, PANETTA IS SAFE!
What a weight lifted off my shoulders. I would have been destroyed had one hair on his head been harmed.
On my prayer rug facing the oval office.
There’s the pitch...
SWING AND A MISS!
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Panchetta should just stay home with the rest of the crooked regime.
LOL! That would be the headline if a Republican was in office.
But I’m sure that Obama will apologize to the Afghan people for the terrorist’s burns.
H'mm.
I don't think that's what he meant to say.
maybe not..but 100 to 1 says he can vote in Texas..
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