{"id":56743,"date":"2014-11-29T12:21:07","date_gmt":"2014-11-29T17:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=56743"},"modified":"2014-11-29T12:21:07","modified_gmt":"2014-11-29T17:21:07","slug":"taliban-attacks-camp-bastion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=56743","title":{"rendered":"Taliban attacks Camp Bastion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/taliban-fighters-breach-helmand-exchange-fire-afghan-troops-092709162.html\">Reuters<\/a> reports that just a few weeks after NATO troops abandoned Camp Bastion which is near Kabul, Afghanistan to the ANA, the Taliban attempted a fairly large attack on the base. The Taliban also attacked a guest house for aid workers near the base;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Taliban attacks are intensifying as the U.S.-led coalition prepares to withdraw most of its soldiers by the end of 2014.<\/p>\n<p>At least two people were killed in the second attack in three days on expatriate aid workers&#8217; housing, and authorities fear hostages may have been taken inside the compound in Kabul&#8217;s western Karte Seh district.<\/p>\n<p>Gunfire and explosions could be heard late into the evening and police said the building&#8217;s second floor had caught fire.<\/p>\n<p>At least two insurgents with suicide vests were also killed, one by his own explosives and the other was shot, Qadam Shah Shaheem, commander of the Afghan army&#8217;s 111 Military Corps Kabul, said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m wondering who could have foreseen that the Taliban would get more froggy as our withdrawal deadline got closer? I mean, who, besides everyone with a pair of eyes and memory that lasts more than a few minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters reports that just a few weeks after NATO troops abandoned Camp Bastion which is near &hellip; <a title=\"Taliban attacks Camp Bastion\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=56743\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Taliban attacks Camp Bastion<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56743","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=56743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}