{"id":33055,"date":"2012-12-02T09:35:25","date_gmt":"2012-12-02T13:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=33055"},"modified":"2012-12-02T09:35:25","modified_gmt":"2012-12-02T13:35:25","slug":"taliban-strike-jalalabad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=33055","title":{"rendered":"Taliban strike Jalalabad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-PH2 sends us an <a href=\"http:\/\/worldnews.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2012\/12\/01\/15607530-nine-suicide-bombers-hit-us-airfield-in-afghanistan-official-says?lite\">NBC link<\/a> to the story that nine suicide bombers struck Jalalabad Airfield this morning after they exploded a truckload of explosives at the gate to the base.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>None of the insurgents breached the perimeter of the base, U.S. Army Maj. Martyn Crighton, a spokesman for NATO in Kabul, told NBC News. He said there were no reports of fatalities among members of the ISAF but some were wounded.<\/p>\n<p>Local police officials earlier told Reuters that a dozen bodies in Afghan police and military uniforms were scattered around an entrance to the base. It was not clear whether the dead were Afghan security forces or militants dressed in uniforms, a tactic the Taliban sometimes deploy during attacks. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Spokesmen were quick to point out that the attack wasn&#8217;t on the scale of the Camp Bastion attack several weeks ago that claimed several lives along with damage to some aircraft.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/middle-east\/afghanistan\/insurgents-launch-complex-attack-on-major-coalition-base-1.199078\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a> reports that five Afghans were killed in the attack this morning;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nangarhar provincial police spokesman Hazrat Hussain Mashreqiwal said three Afghan National Army soldiers and two civilians were killed, along with all nine attackers. He said the second car bomb detonated prematurely after base guards opened fire on the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>An insurgent attack on the same base in February killed nine Afghans.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-PH2 sends us an NBC link to the story that nine suicide bombers struck Jalalabad Airfield &hellip; <a title=\"Taliban strike Jalalabad\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=33055\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Taliban strike Jalalabad<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}