Huge U.S. camp arises in Afghan Desert of Death

Source: Reuters


Huge U.S. camp arises in Afghan Desert of Death

By Andrew Gray
Reuters
Thursday, May 7, 2009; 1:02 PM

CAMP LEATHERNECK, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A huge U.S. military camp is taking shape in the baking heat of southern Afghanistan for thousands of extra U.S. troops charged with defeating a resurgent Taliban.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates visited Camp Leatherneck, with concrete blast walls and semi-cylinder sand-colored tents, on Thursday as he surveyed preparations for what will be the biggest wave yet in a year that is seeing U.S. troop numbers doubled.

The camp is being constructed in Helmand province next to a British base, Camp Bastion, as Marines and other forces dramatically expand their presence in the most violent area of Afghanistan and heartland of the Taliban movement.

Construction workers clambered on the wooden frame of a new headquarters building as Gates spoke at the camp, where the majority of more than 8,000 marines now flowing into southern Afghanistan are expected be based.


"This place was desert at the end of January. I mean: nothing, said Navy Captain Jeff Borowy," the top U.S. military engineer in southern Afghanistan.

"Now you've got a 443-acre secure facility," he told reporters traveling with Gates.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/07/AR2009050702325.html

hard at work for more death and destruction. :mad:

:kick:

globe? 800? 900? 1000?

That doesn't include the ones inside the US.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines07/0308-08.htm

Oh yeah, and to also look for more box-cutter weilding terrorists who perform miraculous missions against the U.S.

Once the Taliban zero in.

Better check those electrical outlets. Even the Taliban isn't that dangerous.

Not since Auschwitz, has the idea of taking a shower scared more people.

Beings the hue and cry during the shrub admin. was that afghanistan should have recieved more attention than iraq...whadda ya crying about? It may do some good...if nothing else cut into the heroin traffic.

actually, it's called EMPIRE. :think:

Flat, empty, barren, people stand out like a sore thumb, so of course that's where they hide.

thanx in advance


otherwise, I'm calling BS on pipelines built to nowhere.

And where do these pipelines terminate ?

Happy hunting!

I saved you the search to counter any dot org pipeline conspiracy links that can be googled up in 30 seconds
;)



oh
but
nobody thought he meant what he said.......
about corvertly working with Iran on mutual enemies running a drug pipeline through the three countries

443-acre camp in the homeland of the Taliban tribes.

Seems like marines are in it for the long haul.

That worked out well, too.