Posted on 06/03/2014 7:41:21 AM PDT by jimbo123
U.S. military officials say 'several' U.S. soldiers also were wounded in the assault on the remote outpost in Paktika province. It's the same area where an American soldier disappeared on Tuesday.
Insurgents armed with rockets, mortars and a truck bomb staged an unusual frontal attack Saturday on a U.S. base in eastern Afghanistan, killing two American soldiers and forcing the defenders to call in airstrikes to avoid being overrun.
The assault, which came as thousands of American troops were taking part in an anti- Taliban offensive hundreds of miles away in the south of Afghanistan, pointed up the insurgents' ability to take the fight to a location of their choosing -- in this case a remote outpost in Paktika province, which borders Pakistan's tribal areas.
The incident also illustrated militant groups' continuing capability to stage sophisticated, multi-pronged attacks in the eastern border zone, despite the Pakistani army's efforts to rein in insurgents who use the tribal areas in Pakistan as a staging ground for attacks in Afghanistan.
The attack on a small base in Zerok district, which lasted several hours, took place in the same area where a U.S. soldier disappeared Tuesday. The U.S. military said two days later that the missing man was believed to have been captured. A search is under way.
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Especially when in possession of inside information about strengths and weaknesses of the defense.
Exactly. What did Bergdahl tell his “captors” about the base defenses?
Also, did Bergdahl have advance warning of this upcoming attack on his base?
Pretty convenient for Bergdahl to desert his post a couple days prior to this Taliban attack...
Agent for 0bama. Traitor gets what he wants. The little islamist gets to murder a lot of Americans. He can taste it.
This SOB would murder his own helicopter pilots in a heartbeat but that he’d kill himself in the process.
They know better than that now.
No coincidence at all.
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