Insurgents attack Afghanistan base

Insurgents attack Afghanistan base
By Sean D. Naylor - Staff writer
Posted : Saturday May 22, 2010 15:23:33 EDT

KANDAHAR AIR FIELD, Afghanistan - Coalition forces repelled an insurgent attack on this airfield on Saturday evening that wounded a small number of personnel, a Coalition spokeswoman said.

The attack began at about 8 p.m. local time when insurgents launched a barrage of five rockets at the air field, said Navy Cmdr. Amanda Peterseim, spokeswoman for Regional Command-South, which is headquartered at the air field. One of those rockets hit near the boardwalk, the collection of stores and coffee shops which forms the social hub at the air field, and is often crowded in the evenings. That rocket wounded "a few" personnel, but did not kill any, Peterseim said.

"Shortly after we started hearing the announcement that we were under ground attack," Peterseim said. That ground attack involved "just a few insurgents" attacking a guard tower on the airfield’s north side and was "repelled" with no casualties on the Coalition side, she said. "There's been no breach of the perimeter," she said.

Peterseim said she did not know the status of the insurgents who attacked the base.

The attack prompted non-stop sirens and loudspeaker announcements on the base, which is the second largest Coalition installation. "KAF is under ground attack! Seek shelter in place!" was the message broadcast repeated over the loudspeakers for at least three hours following the first rockets landing.

from their homeland" It's every bit as true and might be more accurate.

And I would agree that it is probably a more accurate statement.

just as (if not more) accurate?

Are not the Taliban citizens of Afghanistan?

Are not the troops they are fighting foreign to their country?

Face it, we are foreign invaders, inserting ourselves into another civil war. The Taliban are no more responsible for Sept 11 than the Saudia's....maybe less.

Propaganda from this administration is no more reliable than from the last and less palatable because they know better. The US Govt is almost entirely under corporate control and we'd be smart to recognize that fact, even if there is nothing we can do about it.