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15 Saturday Sep 2012
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HELMAND – Two American soldiers were killed during a Taliban attack on the British base of Camp Bastion in Southern Afghanistan last night.
The assault involved between 18 and 20 fighters who used small arms, rockets and mortars to attack the perimeter of the British base.
Prince Harry was at Camp Bastion in Afghanistan during the attack and a Taliban spokesman said he was the target.
The Taliban spokesman had at first said that the attack was a response to a US-made film mocking Islam.
They released a video of the attack, a snatch of which is pictured above.
The Prince, who is third in line to the British throne, is celebrating his 28th birthday and is in Afghanistan for four months on his second tour of duty.
He was not in any danger during this unprecedented assault on one of the world’s busiest airports.
Several other Nato troops were wounded, whilst one Taliban fighter was caught alive and the rest killed.
Camp Bastion which is situated in the middle of the desert is extremely heavily fortified.
An MoD spokesman said this was a significant attack adding: “there has been some damage to equipment which is still being assessed.”
“After swift action by ISAF forces, including UK personnel, the incident was contained.”
Three hundred and thirty coalition soldiers have lost their lives in Afghanistan this year, of which 252 are from the US.
PROTESTS AGAINST FILM
11 September
1. US embassy in Cairo attacked, flag torn down and replaced with black Islamist banner
2. Mob attacks US consulate in Benghazi, US ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans killed
13 September
3. Protesters break into the US embassy compound in Sanaa, Yemen, amid clashes with security forces
14 September
4. Sudanese protesters attack US, German and UK embassies in Khartoum and clash with police. Three killed
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6. Protesters in Tunis attack the US embassy, with a large fire reported and shots heard. Two killed
7. Riot police in Cairo clash with protesters near US embassy. One person killed
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21 Tuesday Aug 2012
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An insurgent rocket attack on a US air base in Afghanistan has damaged the plane of America’s top military officer.
Gen Martin Dempsey, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff had arrved in the country following a spate of ‘green on blue’ kiilings.
He was not near the plane at the time.
However, two US maintenance crew were slightly injured.
The attack happened late on Monday night at the US air base in Bagram.
Gen Dempsey had arrived on Monday in a C-17 transport aircraft which was parked at Bagram.
Gen Martin Dempsey, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, had met Nato commanders and officials for talks after the death of a Nato soldier on Sunday who was shot dead by an Afghan in a police uniform.
The soldier was the 10th US soldier to die in this way in two weeks.
Two American soldiers were killed in another incident on Friday.
And six were killed in a single day on 10 August.
Some 130,000 (“blue”) Nato troops are fighting insurgents in Afghanistan, alongside 350,000 (“green”) Afghans.
So far, 40 members of the International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) personnel – most of the victims Americans – have been killed by members of the Afghan security forces this year.
There were 35 such deaths in all of 2011
A statement from Nato’s Isaf force said shrapnel from “an indirect fire round” had damaged the plane as well as a Nato helicopter.
The general was in his room at the time of the attack, according to officials.
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02 Monday Jul 2012
Three British soldiers have been killed by a policeman in southern Afghanistan.
The MoD said the soldiers were shot and fatally wounded on Sunday as they left a checkpoint in Helmand province. The gunman was injured and later detained.
The MoD said two served with the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards and one with the Royal Corps of Signals. Next of kin have been informed.
422 British soldiers have now lost their lives in Afghanistan since the conflict began in 2001.
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13 Friday Jan 2012
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Four young men laughing at each other’s jokes – could be a scene from any Saturday night, especially if they all had too much to drink.
Problem is this was no joke, the four marines were urinating on the bodies of three men, they called ‘Taliban’.
Predictably, yesterday’s video posting drew outrage with concerns about how the US could be seen in the Islamic World.
You can draw your own conclusions about that, however you may want to consider whether the actions of those four men is all that surprising.
The word ‘Taliban’ is used by soldiers in Afghanistan – and by many people over here – in the same way as you would talk of a pest that needs to be eradicated, in the same way also as the Lord’s name being taken in vain.
Hezbollah has also been used, as has Hamas, and as talk of war with Iran gets closer so will references to the stranglehold of that country’s clerical elite – the ‘mad mullahs’.
Go back further, and ‘Gaddafi’, ‘Saddam’ all received the same treatment – never mind the fact that many died fighting, if not for them, but for the nation that they led.
Both men were treated appalingly when they met their end.
And go back even further to the Vietnam and Korean Wars, and the carnage unleashed by aerial bombing was fine in the minds of the pilots because they were fighting the Vietcong, Communists, Gooks.
Go back further to Dresden, Hamburg, the wooden homes of Tokyo, the killing fields of the First World War.
Then, war was being waged against the Nazis, the Japs, and before them the German Guerilla.
As waging war becomes easier – modern drone strikes do not even need the conscience of a pilot – it is important to remember that the results are still as bloody and devastating to those we regard as the enemy.
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09 Friday Dec 2011
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Yesterday, the Ministry of Defence announced the passing of another British soldier in the death trap that is Helmand Province.
If the bloodshed continues at its current rate, the figure will by the end of the year reach the grim milestone of 400.
Even though the people of Wootton Basset have made sure that the repatriations are not forgotten, there is a danger that this death and the ones leading up to the four hundredth may pass almost without notice, such is the depressing familiarity of news of each new life lost. That they are doing their duty, is without doubt, however, what those of us in ‘civi-street’ appear not to be asking is why the need – what is Britain doing deploying the second biggest contingent of troops to a war where her contribution is symbollic, just as it was in Iraq, where British soldiers openly said that this was ‘America’s show.’
And just as importantly, how much longer will it last and when will it all stop.
Until such hard questions are asked, we will continue to be passive observers, as the sad news is brought to the family of another fallen soldier.
And through our silence we will be as culpable in their deaths as those who said nothing during the carnage of the first and second world wars.
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04 Sunday Dec 2011
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America and her Nato allies have fifteen days of supplies left to sustain her war effort, Pakistan’s former spy chief claimed in an interview broadcast on RussiaToday.
Hamid Gul, who was previously the head of the ISI, said Nato had “shot iself in the foot” after an airstrike that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers.
As a “professional soldier” he knew that the control of the supplyline was key and now was the time for Pakistan to “stand firm”, and offer to help in an orderly withdrawal of the American troops from Afghanistan.
America was “lieing” when it said that it could create an alternative supply line, and if countries such as Tajikistan were to help they would have to deal with the “spill over” of an irregular war.
With the closure of the Shamsi air base for drone strikes, any “secret understanding” between the two countries was no longer there and would mean a huge decrease in the scale of those strikes.
With Pakistan holding the cards, he argued that she would lay down four conditions.
* India does not become the new “proxy power”, something he said that would be a disaster for all the regional powers, “especially China”
*Pakistan should accepted into the nuclear club, in the same way as India.
*To settle the Kashmir issue, according to the wishes of her people
*A scaling down of the highly militarisied American embassy in Kabul.
After that, Pakistan should only open the supply line to ensure a orderly withdrawal.
However, he claimed whilst mosr Americans wanted a withdrawal, there were too many interests – political, corporate and narcotic – that did not want this to happen.
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