US and Afghan forces exchanged six hours of gunfire with Taliban insurgents who launched attacks on two US bases in Kandahar on Thursday before exploding a car bomb outside a military outpost west of the city and firing rocket-propelled grenades at another garrison downtown.
The onslaught of attacks ended with three Afghans killed and six Americans wounded. The six-hour standoff concluded when a US military helicopter was called in and fired a Hellfire missile into the building insurgents had captured.
Amid talk of progress in Afghanistan and an impending military drawdown, the attacks prove yet again that the insurgency is as strong as ever after months of sustained violence across the country. The insurgents are showing resilience and cunning with multiple recent high profile assassinations and an attack this week on a NATO fuel tanker attempting to deliver its cargo into Bagram Air Base, causing a massive explosion that killed 10 people and wounded scores of others.
Recent implications that a transition to Afghan-controlled security will soon be underway is belied by the robustness of the insurgency and the fact that not a single Afghan army battalion can operate without assistance from US or allied units.
The longer america stay in Afganistan is another nail in the "empires coffin" they seem to forget the british rout in 1840 where almost Twelve thousand perished in the march to Jalalabad. Soldier on america and get run out of there too.
Billions upon billions of our tax dollars consumed by those Special Forces kill squads, surely more harm then good are such vengeance generator, as they unify and motivate the Taliban all the more.
The imperialists are under attack abroad and at home. My, my, my, what are the poor darlings to do?
Obama's surge is going as well as expected.
General G.A. Custer yelled to his men and this is true, "Steady men, steady! There's enough Indians for all of us!" before they charged an Indian village the Indians called the Greasy grass. Exit
Colonel Custer and the 2/7.
Can anyone hear Gary Owen being played coming coming from D.C.?
America is not interested in peacegul solution like all the dictators and america is a dictator junta.
Afghans have an aim to sacrifice thewir life and what should american fight just to prove the lies.
There is other solution but to leave. i read every day blames against Pakistan as they have learned from the past that americans are infidels and will to sacrifice for america our nation. This is a foolish dream and by blame games nothing will be solved.
Americans should be killed in afhanistan this is their line and length and revenge against civilians by american killings.
Just released by the DOD, a US soldier was killed by small arms fire in Ghanzi province on Wednesday, October 27. He is the 22nd US soldier to die in Afghanistan in October.