Late Sunday night Taliban fighters in the Parwan Province attacked the US military base at Bagram Airfield, firing at least a dozen and by some accounts 20 missiles against targets on the base.
Reports of the casualties in the aftermath of the incident have been wildly conflicting, with the Taliban’s own statement claiming the rockets destroyed a plane before targeting a residential complex for troops on the base and killed “dozens,” while provincial officials claimed they had no news of any casualties at all.
NATO’s own statement dubbed the attacks “ineffective” and claimed that not only were their no casualties among NATO troops, but that none of the missiles even caused any damage. They claimed a single attacker was killed.
While it’s not unusual for NATO and the Taliban to tell dramatically different stories, the reality likely falls somewhere in between, and it seems extremely unlikely that a dozen rockets fired at an air base would cause no damage at all.
Like all NATO comments the truth is likely to far different from the comment " no damage was done to troops or equipment"
IT WILL COME OUT ON A FEW MORE DAYS—many prolly died..
When the bodies are removed from transport in Delaware, returned to the parents and loved ones who knew they were deployed to Bagram Airfield, then many will know, despite the faceless NATO spokesperson, that there actually was "damage" done during the attack…but I wouldn't count on the press to connect the dots.
Apparently the base at Bagram gets rocketed regularly. It was rocketed last week.
Apparently, too, such rockettings don't have any effect on trained personnel – unlike the homemade jobs that were being shot at Israeli civilians.
You'll know when Antiwar's "Americans Still Dying" column mentions casualties which are otherwise inexplicable.
By the way, it was NATO which trained the original Mujahideen to attack Soviet airbases…like Bagram. What goes around comes around.