KABUL, Afghanistan - Insurgents armed with machine guns, mortars, and rocket-propelled grenades mounted a fierce assault on a remote, relatively lightly manned US outpost in northeastern Afghanistan yesterday, killing nine American soldiers.
The attack on the US base began about 4:30 a.m. yesterday and lasted most of the day. The attack yesterday was unusual in its audacity. Taliban guerrillas rarely make sustained frontal assaults on much better-armed coalition forces, preferring hit-and-run attacks and roadside bombs. But militants make occasional attempts to overrun outposts, particularly if their surveillance indicates there are relatively few troops inside, or they are aware that terrain or location might make it difficult for Western forces to conduct air strikes or bring in reinforcements.
It would be considered an enormous battlefield coup for the insurgents to capture a coalition base, particularly if they were able to take captives and seize weaponry. Insurgents often videotape their attacks on Western forces and use the images in recruiting and propaganda videos.
Yeah, they are the only guys who engage in 'propaganda," sure.
Righty-o, AmeriKan MSM!
And here is an interesting footnotes, 'eh?
"Militants 'breach' US Afghan base
Insurgents pounded the Afghan army and Nato base - which had reportedly only been fully constructed days earlier - with rockets, mortars and machine guns, before breaching the compound and attacking the soldiers from inside.
That's a different picture than what the AmeriKan MSM is portraying (why am I not surprised?).
The fighting is close to where US forces were accused of killing 47 civilians in an air strike in Nangarhar province a week ago. The US military said they were militants."
They aren't "militants!"
They are TOWNSFOLK getting revenge and trying to drive out the murderous occupier!
Yes, readers, I have had it with AmeriKa's shit MSM!
