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Subscribe to RSSKHOST, Afghanistan -- A suicide bomber killed three people in an attack on a U.S. base in Afghanistan on Wednesday, the same base that is believed to be used by the CIA and which a suicide bomber attacked three years ago killing seven CIA employees.
The Afghan Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack in the eastern town of Khost, saying they had sent a suicide bomber driving a van packed with explosives to the base.
"The target was those who serve Americans at that base," said Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid.
Afghanistan's NATO-led force said the bomber did not get into the base nor breach its perimeter. Police said the three dead were Afghans who were outside the base, which is beside a military airport.
The al Qaida-linked Haqqani network, widely regarded as the most dangerous U.S. foe in Afghanistan, is active in Khost province, which is on the Pakistani border.
After more than a decade of war, Taliban insurgents are still able to strike strategic military targets, and launch high-profile attacks in the capital, Kabul, and elsewhere.
Three years ago, an al Qaida-linked Jordanian double-agent killed seven CIA employees and a Jordanian intelligence officer in a suicide bombing at the same base in Khost, known as Forward Operating Base Chapman.
It was the second deadliest attack in CIA history.
Afghan police official General Abdul Qasim Baqizoy, the Khost police chief, said no CIA agents were hurt on Wednesday.
Afghan authorities are scrambling to improve security across the country before the U.S. combat mission ends in 2014.
Besides pressure from the Taliban, U.S.-led NATO forces also face a rising number of so-called insider attacks, in which Afghan forces turn their weapons on Western troops they are supposed to be working with.
On Monday, an Afghan policewoman killed a U.S. police adviser at the Kabul police headquarters, raising troubling questions about the direction of the war.
It appeared to be the first time that a woman member of Afghanistan's security forces carried out such an attack.
On Tuesday, Afghan officials said the woman has an Iranian passport and moved to Afghanistan 10 years ago. There was no suggestion that Iran was involved in the attack on the American.
Officials suspect she may have been recruited by al Qaida or the Taliban, and had intended to also kill Afghan police officials.
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Wars kill innocent people,the the nature or fog of wars,and the Bible says
God doesn't kill the innocent,death came into the world as a result of man's sin
at Eden.And God doesn't make mistakes or commit accidents,wars kill innocent
children and fetuses even by mistake or by accident.So wars are a sin,to God all
life is precious and sacred,in wars life is expendable.Not the Media or the
politicians in this country or any other country will tell you this,it's not in
their self interest to do so,their main interest is maintaining their audiences
and their bottom line profits.So arming everybody with guns and being no longer
"defenseless",is still going to kill people,and if you truly believe that ALL
life is precious and sacred to God,it still would not be of God.The gun culture
is also the killing culture,all life is not precious and sacred as it is to
God,but expendable.
Looks like they need a few Leftards helping them make laws over ther. If they would just pass some Anti-bomb laws it would stop this crap. Raise taxes on bomb making supplies. Background check & finger printing for anyone looking to buy or make a bomb. Close all the Bomb Show Loopholes. Something needs to be done about the Bomb Nuts .
So, when can I get my shoulder fired anti aircraft missile in the US? Also, I need grenades, fully auto rifles, napalm, mines, anti tank weapons.
Nobama has scheduled a press conference in 30 minutes to tell the American public the attack was a spontaneous uprising as a result of some guy in northern Alaska posting a Christmas video on YouTube that offended the muslims.
Yea, and if you believe all of that, I've got a story about a place called Benghazi I would like to sell you.
Actually, the military is in charge daily. I see you passed the buck for pitiful military who can't defeat a fourth world fighting force.
Wallace, if they would give our soldiers the ammo to fight with, and the orders to take out the taliban, they probably would win this war. It's those with the politically correctness attitude that it's against policy to "fight back" to defend yourself that has been put in force over the past few years. Like, say you hear all the time here, you can't say that, you might offend someone, if you fire your weapon at someone standing in front of you loaded up with bombs to kill you and your team, it's not politically correct to kill them first.
Had they done what GW the 1st did, go in and carpet bomb and get'r done in 100 hours, our guys wouldn't have been there for 10 plus years! GW-2 was just not the same as his dad.
Maybe we are not their way of life and their religion is different than ours??
How do guys in baggy pants always find ways to put the hurt on you? Well, they believe in their cause and go beyond simple risk taking. Works in all wars.
Sen Fienstien and Mayor Bloomberg should push for gun control on those terrorist, then our troops would be safe from these type of murders.
Johnnie... Just read you post re. Obama. Look around and you can see who Obama is waging war on. The American people and anyone else that is not into Islam.
It's just a good thing Obama decimated the al Qaida.
Barack, the Almost Negro, to the rescu....oh wait..
More American dead. How long this time until Odumas and the Blind Posse admits it was a terrorist attack? Well, then again, this isn't an election cycle.
It's 72 virgins and paradise for the man who commits jihad and blows himself and innocent others up and kitchen detail for the women who do the same..hell on earth and hell in heaven for them!!! The conditions for withdraw (set during the Bush era and demanded by Iraq leadership) was met in Iraq, while there was a extension to the withdraw date (July 2012) set by the current Administration by 2 more years, with a 4 billion dollar per year kicker (which will fall into the hands of those who hate us) seems to suggest we just can't learn! Oh well, it's just lives and money in the game of "world resources and how do we get them"!!!...
Pull out the troops and send in the liberals...the liberals will have Afghanistan humming along in no time...
Well, that's more humane than what I'd do to liberals...
Yes, because liberals deserve to be tortured to death, jackwagon...
Sending in Liberals such as Madcow, Olbermann, Mathews, etc. must be against the Geneva Convention as unusually cruel. It would be more humane to water board them.
Nope, just sterilized so their mental failures are weeded out of the next generation.
How about we send in big mouth, lard rear Rush the draft dodger? Or Bambi killer Nugent the draft dodger or Cheney the 6 deferment guy? Hey Beck has military experience...he read a Guns magazine once. Hannity? Hhahaha he could laugh them to death. He too pretty boy to shoot.
Bush? Bush..Now where did that reservist go? You seen Bush?
As always, Ron Paul was right.
Use napalm on these goat humpers and roast them out.
How about sarin or an a bomb
The Taliban keep hiding among the civilian population so we cannot get them. At what point do we say enough is enough and just carpet bomb their entire strongholds? That is the only way to protect innocent Afghan's and American lives. This anti-collateral damage is not working very effectively and we need to change our approach to something that works. Yes there may be civilian deaths of Taliban ruled areas and many protests from people and countries who are not at risk of attack from these terrorists. Hey Obama it is time to grow a pair and step up and get this over with.
Larry -
Pull out the troops and send in John Kerry...if Benghazi was the unfortunate results of the State Department furthering American interest then it follows that Afghanistan is a State Department job...I can see it now...John Kerry in full uniform...War Metals and Ribbons on his chest...charging into service driving a dune buggy with a peace symbol flag rippling in the wind...I'm...getting...all...choked...up...
At least he was in the military..not like Bush the hiding reservist, Cheney the 6 deferrments or Nugent the Bambi killer draft dodger or O'Riley the went to England or Romnie the I went to Paris as a missionary
wallacet1947
Kinda a Drama Queen aren't you? Do you dress for it too?
Religious fundamentalists and extremists continue to be the bane of humanity.
You should not talk about Conservative Christians that way
At christmas, it's not a good thing to say this ,but we need to kill everyone there or get the hell out!
They don't want us there,so why stay?
To hell with being correct in the eyes of the united nations.
Our men and women are dying every day for what? A good show of "big brotherness"?
Kill them all,take the country, or get the hell out and bring our kids home!
By the way, you u.s. contractors, who are making millions from this war can stay as long as you like!!!
Until we get oil fields producing in the U.S., we have to stay there.
Taking the whole place over? Yeah, let's piss off our owners the Chinese by screwing with their little buddies.
Agree, as long as we have some middle and poor class dummies to do the fighting while the CEOs and radio talk show hosts don't risk their lives.........we have no choice.
Thanks for insulting me, you low life coward. Take your anti-military mindset and shove it so far up your backside that you have to wipe your tongue.
Know your place commoner. I served 6 years in Vietnam in 1968. I saw the light but you are a stooge.
Vietnam accomplished nothing and South east Asia did not fall to the commies. 58,000 dead for nothing. Now, they seem to have a new batch of dunces.
Another example of pig humping cowards at the Taliban top sending dumber than dirt pig humper idiots in to die believing they will go to the pig humping Allah in the sky. I would love to be able to give 10k to any Afgan who kills one of these pig humping cowardly scumbags below.
"The al Qaida-linked Haqqani network, widely regarded as the most dangerous U.S. foe in Afghanistan, is active in Khost province, which is on the Pakistani border."
LMAO
In Syria Most of the rebels are al-Qaida. Over 80% of rebel forces are foreign jihadist most being trained in Saudi Arabia and Turkey key entry points for al-Qaida to infiltrate Syria.
Benghazi loss of life and the murder was because Syrian Rebels were smuggled into Syria 20,000 heat seeking shoulder held rockets. Most of which fell into the hands of the Foreign Rebel fighters hands which many are al-Qaida.
NATO is supplying al-QAIDA
AL-CIADA
(AMERICAN LIE - CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY DESTRUCTION of AMERICA)
Note as long as we have right wing lap dogs to do the fighting while the Romneys, Limbaughs, Boortzs, Becks, Nugents, Cheneys, Clintons, Hannities, O'Rileys stay home behind their mothers/wives skirts this will continue.
they want you to go home and leave them alone
they want you to go home and leave them alone. if they were here we would kill them.
Ghee, pay 663 billion budget and these pitiful American fighters want more help? Good thing the enemy does not have planes, tanks, choppers, ships...we would really be in a world of hurt.
Bring home the so-called troops they are outmanned by stone aged fighters. Hey quit throwing rocks at us.
THOSE OF YOU TALKING ABOUT WAR & BOMBING
To me you're as sick as any person that pulls the trigger of a gun/bomb on helpless children.
You are what I call COUCH SOLDIERS because your arse never left these shores to put your mouth where the WAR IS...
ALL non combatants STFU about killing children, they will be collateral damage.
China ever bombed my child well i think I would be their enemy till the die they kill me.
This is called blow back or Karma for death and destruction.
Your hands do have blood on them you are not going to escape JUDGMENT.
Bambi killers and like you said couch soldiers. Immagine Rush Limbaugh leading the charge in the trench warfare in WWI? The Germans would laugh so hard they would miss him. Fritz, I laugh so hard I cannot hit funny fat man...you try.
Send in Glenn Beck he has military experience, at least he talks like he does.
It's just another consumptive war like all the others. As we become the energy exporter to the world we need to control that area. These people are technologically perfect for our "faux" wars...a people who have NEVER been defeated by ANYONE...oportunity to continue no bid contracts in perpetuity for the Haliburton's of America. You gotta wonder why we never set foot in places like Boznia or any of the other "balkanized" contries...talk about different outcome...you think our casualties are bad in Afghan or these other 3rd world Muslim countries...imagine multiples of that and real terrorism here...not the fake stuff we have now...a perfect storm of a Muslim "hornets nest" to stir up to make all this profit possible and as a sideline/sidebar to dismantle our Constitution as an extra perk...courtesy of O'Blamo/Bush...no diff...as the Liberals cheer hooray!!
Another 4 Americans dead overseas???
OBAMA: "I promise to have all the soldiers home by March, 2009" (LIAR)
Presidents change
Policies stay the same
Whendid he ever say we would have all our troops home from Aghanistan in 2009? Substanciate yourself.