A Shortage of Coffins’ After Taliban Slaughter Unarmed Soldiers
Taliban attackers kill at least 140 soldiers at Afghan base, officials say
At least 140 Afghan soldiers have reportedly been killed by Taliban attackers apparently disguised in military uniforms, in what would be the deadliest attack ever on an Afghan military base.
Relatives carried the coffin of a victim of the Taliban attack on an army base in Balkh Province.—New York Times
KABUL, Afghanistan — They looked like Afghan Army soldiers returning from the front lines, carrying the bodies of wounded comrades as part of the ruse.
Dressed in military uniforms, a squad of 10 Taliban militants drove in two army Ford Ranger trucks past seven checkpoints. They arrived inside northern Afghanistan’s largest military installation just as hundreds, perhaps thousands, of unarmed soldiers were emerging from Friday Prayers and preparing for lunch.
For the next five hours, the militants went on a rampage, killing at least 140 soldiers and officers in what is emerging as the single deadliest known attack on an Afghan military base in the country’s 16-year war. Some assailants blew themselves up among the soldiers fleeing for their lives, according to survivors, witnesses and officials.
5 hour attack and the heroic Afghan Army couldn’t muster a Ready Reaction Force. Bet if it were schoolboys doing a random tour they’d be all over them like a fat kid on a cupcake.
People wonder why i’m so vocal of that failed excursion. Waste of bloody Westerner lives all so our Governments could chase a dollar.