{"id":32020,"date":"2012-09-15T09:46:04","date_gmt":"2012-09-15T13:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=32020"},"modified":"2012-09-15T09:46:04","modified_gmt":"2012-09-15T13:46:04","slug":"leatherneck-assault-was-for-harry-says-taliban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32020","title":{"rendered":"Leatherneck Assault was for Harry, says Taliban"},"content":{"rendered":"

The assault that we mentioned last night, which claimed 2 Marines’ lives was the result of the media hype over Prince Harry’s assignment to Camp Bastion in southern Afghanistan, says Associated Press;<\/a><\/p>\n

“We attacked that base because Prince Harry was also on it and so they can know our anger,” Taliban spokesman Qari Youssef Ahmadi said by telephone. He added, “Thousands more suicide attackers are ready to give up their lives for the sake of the Prophet.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Taliban also claimed that the attack was in response to the stupid video which caused attacks on US embassies in Libya, Egypt and Yemen this week.<\/p>\n

Fox News Channel is reporting that 17 Taliban bodies were found inside the base perimeter this morning after the battle. So that’s a real good waste of resources by any measure.<\/p>\n

Reuters<\/a> reports;<\/p>\n

“Prince Harry was never in any danger,” Martyn Crighton, a spokesman for the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), said, adding that it would investigate whether his presence on the base had motivated the attack.<\/p>\n

Britain’s Sky News said a Taliban commander had told the broadcaster that Prince Harry was main target of the attack. Sky’s Kabul correspondent said she checked with a Taliban spokesman, who said the attack on Bastion was indeed in revenge for the Islam film, but that Bastion was chosen as the target because Prince Harry was there.<\/p>\n

Sky’s correspondent in Cairo said he had received a fresh statement from a “senior Taliban spokesman\/commander”, saying that the confusion over the claims was because there were two Taliban groups attacking the base.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I would have thought that the war would be enough reason to assault the base and that the Taliban wouldn’t need a weak excuse like the video, but I guess I’d be wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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