Just hours after the official celebration commemorating the phony transfer of Bagram Prison to Afghan control, the Taliban opened fire on a NATO helicopter at the adjacent Bagram airfield, downing and destroying it, and killing three Afghans on board. Two NATO soldiers were also wounded.
NATO offered few details on the attack, saying that they came under fire from “munitions” and that they had yet to determine exactly what they were attacked with. The Taliban said they used rockets.
The CH-47 Chinook helicopter was apparently not destroyed immediately, but was set on fire by the attack, which eventually rendered the $35 million transport helicopter completely destroyed.
NATO declined to specify the types of injuries suffered by the wounded NATO soldiers, and also refused to say what sort of mission they were on. Some reports have characterized the Afghans killed as “intelligence officials.”
5th helicopter destroyed in less than a month.
The Taliban, and every Afghani should do everything in their power to undermine the US, and NATO terrorist invasion, and send them packing. This occupation has only benefited the war profiteers and those congressmen/senators getting paybacks for their upcoming elections. Overall it has beena complete travesty, and must be stopped.
Oh, well. If they hadn't been there, it would have never happened.