{"id":61294,"date":"2015-08-09T09:30:27","date_gmt":"2015-08-09T13:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=61294"},"modified":"2015-08-09T09:16:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-09T13:16:00","slug":"taliban-kill-50-in-wave-of-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61294","title":{"rendered":"Taliban kill 50 in wave of attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Friday, the Taliban launched large scale attacks in Kabul beginning with one in a heavily populated area of the city, followed by one on a police academy which killed or wounded 40 people, and then another on Camp Integrity, a base run by security contractors of Academi (formerly Blackwater) which wounded about 248 people and killed 15, including one American, according to reports. Reuters<\/a> reports that more than 50 people were killed in the three attacks.<\/p>\n

The U.N. mission in Afghanistan said the incident was the worst since it began recording civilian casualties in 2009, with 355 civilians killed or injured. The U.N. Special Representative, Nicholas Haysom, called it “extreme, irreversible and unjustifiable in any terms”.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, NATO-led coalition forces confirmed that one international service member and eight Afghan contractors had been killed in the attack on Camp Integrity, a base used by U.S. special forces near the main airport.<\/p>\n

The blast outside the base was powerful enough to flatten offices inside, wounding occupants who were airlifted by helicopter to military hospitals during the night. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The article says that US and Afghan military leaders had hoped that there would be a measure of disarray among the Taliban with the announcement of Mullah Omar’s death, but that was just wishful thinking, I guess. The dude has been dead for two years, they would have had time to adjust to the loss of the old useless fart by now, one would think. <\/p>\n

As I said when this administration decided to leave 10,000 US troops in Afghanistan, their main problem would stem from the fact that US forces would need to rely on Afghans for security. The Afghans have trouble providing security for themselves let alone our troops. The fellow who bombed the Afghan police academy was wearing a police uniform.<\/p>\n

Mike sends us the news that the Department of Defense has just released the name of the American soldier killed in these attacks;<\/p>\n

The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Freedom’s Sentinel.<\/p>\n

Master Sgt. Peter A. McKenna Jr., 35, of Bristol, Rhode Island, died Aug. 8, in Kabul, Afghanistan, of wounds when he was attacked by enemy small arms fire.<\/p>\n

McKenna was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 7th Special Forces Group, Eglin Air Force Base, Florida.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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