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One must begin by acknowledging reality and accepting it for what it is, regardless of how painful or undesirable its truth. Faith does not always serve human need; it often undermines progress and promotes oppression of the working class, despite its occasional good intentions. Broken systems of power do not promote justice.
Ultimately, we can only begin our respective journeys to true consciousness and thus revolution from wherever are. But we must have the courage to acknowledge where that is. False hope and wishful thinking can prevent us from doing what must be done. It can perpetuate the very inequality we are trying to eradicate. Reality, no matter how disturbing, provides a solid base from which to move forward. Take it for what it is.
Charles Sullivan is a naturalist, an educator, and freelance writer residing in the Ridge and Valley Province of geopolitical West Virginia.
The Hatfields&McCoys was good tv.
Kentucky and West Virginia slugging it out toe to toe.
And what kept going thru my mind was how prolific both families were...
They just never seemed to run out of each other to kill....;}
O, and how the two clan leaders were absent from some of the most critical events....they were sick....just couldn't make it to the event....;}
"the media neglects that in 2011 in an educational conference in London the education minister of the puppet regime of Kabul acknowledged that the so called armed opposition is not against the education of boys and girls. Similarly the professional deputy minister of this office told the media that the schools are destroyed by some criminal gangs and not by the Taliban. At the same time we would like to say that on 22nd February in Kashkot area of Khewa district one teacher and 9 students were injured in the indiscriminate shelling of helicopters by the invading forces. But the stooge media have turned a blind eye over all these facts and realities.
he fact is that recently the invading forces have martyred and burnt innocent civilians and children in Zangawat area of Panjwai district and prior to that they have humiliated the bodies of the martyrs. Similarly in Bagram air base they committed the unpardonable act of disgracing the Holy Quran. Now the invaders and their local stooges try to divert the attention of the Afghan nation as well as of the international community from their barbaric deeds and crimes by these kinds of planed issues of infecting the girls.
The Islamic Emirate once again declares that these and likewise dire incidents are carried out by some intelligence agencies including the intelligence agency of the puppet admin of Kabul by the name of national security.
The policy of Mujahedeen is palpable i.e. armed resistance against the invading forces and their supporters till the liberation of the country.
Moreover false allegations of the invaders and their hired media against Mujahedeen are the part of the media war and have no reality.
The Islamic Emirate declares its complete acquittal and says that this kind of criminals will be penalized according to the Islamic Law where ever arrested inside the country.
"I think most of my regular readers are aware that I spent last weekend at a peak oil event. There have been plenty of those over the last decade or so, but this one, The Age of Limits, was a bit unusual: it started from from the place where most other peak oil events stop, with the recognition that the decline and fall of industrial civilization is the defining fact of our time.
It’s ironic, to use no stronger term, that this should be the point at which so much discussion of peak oil stops, because it’s also the place where that conversation began some fifteen years ago, at the very dawn of today’s peak oil movement.
Back then, as conversations about the limits to growth were getting started again for the first time since the twilight of the 1970s, most participants in those early discussions seem to have grasped that the industrial world would either rise to the challenge of peak oil and undergo the wrenching process of shortage and reallocation that a successful downshift of energy consumption would demand,
or plow face first into the brick wall of resource limits and crash to ruin. The debates then were over which of these would be chosen. At this point it’s painfully clear which way the decision has gone, but the discourse of peak oil by and large remains the same.
"Thinking back over the weekend, three points of crucial relevance for the project of this blog stand out.
The first and most basic is precisely the number of people who are ready to grapple with the end of industrial civilization: not as an abstract possibility to be shoved off on a conveniently distant future, not as an inkblot pattern on which to project one’s favorite apocalyptic fantasies, not as a bogeyman that can be used to stampede recruits into signing up for the greater glory of some movement or other, but as a simple and inescapable fact that is already shaping our lives.
1)It’s one of the oddities of the tribe to which I belong that it’s hard to give it a simple, straightforward name of that kind, just a clear sense
of the trajectory our age is tracing out against the background of deep time, and it’s one of the less heavily represented tribes at most peak oil events.
What set The Age of Limits apart is that it was specifically for this latter tribe, and the enthusiastic turnout in response to very muted publicity—little more than a few posts on blogs—shows me that the audience for such discussions is a good deal larger than I had any reason to think.
2)"the extent to which people in that tribe—and, I suspect, across a broader spectrum of society as well—are hungry for meaningful discussions of one of the taboo topics of our age, the relation of spirituality to the shape of our future. That hunger came as a surprise to our hosts..."
2a) It’s among the major failures of contemporary Western culture that the keepers of its religious traditions have so signally failed to deal with the core issues of our time. There’s a history behind that failure, of course.
3) Something has gone very wrong. That’s the message that’s rumbling like distant thunder through the crawlspaces of the American imagination just now. Something has gone very wrong, and those whose public claim to power is their supposed ability to manage things so that they don’t go wrong—the captains of finance and brokers of political power who move from photo op to press conference to high-level meeting and back again—don’t know how to fix it.
That has had any number of unhelpful consequences, but the one relevant here is that either choice makes it effectively impossible for those who speak for religious institutions to say anything at all about the reality of our nation’s and civilization’s decline."
Religion is a major organizing force in American public life; each of the great shifts in American politics and society have been paralleled, and often preceded, by a corresponding shift in the religious sphere....
thus we will now be experiencing a Religious Shift on a Grand Scale.
“In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.” -- MOBY DICK, Chapter IX Herman Melville
First, the notion that the trades which caused the losses by JPM were put on in the last six months or so seems to have been widely accepted in the media. But is this really the case?
Religion is a major organizing force in American public life; each of the great shifts in American politics and society have been paralleled, and often preceded, by a corresponding shift in the religious sphere....
thus we will now be experiencing a Religious Shift on a Grand Scale.
You are correct there is a shift in America (already in Europe) and the results are not so good. We are going the way of all "great" civilizations that lose their way.
I really expected some posts on Bilderberg from you. It is that time of year:)
As iron sharpens iron, So a man sharpens the countenance of his friend. -Proverbs 27:17 (NKJV)
I see an increase in the number of rings in each circus, and a growing number of circuses and circus acts!
IT takes power and lots of it.
Something that they're running out of, with every misuse and abuse of same....;}
Violence is all they've got now. Cause the 'bread&circus' thing is floundering.
All his life he did his best for all And the crown of laughter Hanging low The spotlight in the ring, The choruses that sing The paint and masquerade Was just a show The clown - the clown Happiness around Just a soul lonely in the crowd The clown - the clown His heart is all alone No one wants the tears of a clown The living of the glory and applause The circus tent, The only home he knows The cover-up is bold, The mask becoming cold It's easier to let the eyelids close The clown, ... The final curtain falls for all to see The final score , the circus melody His star that shone so bright, Gave comfort in the night The light that always held him Set him free The clown, ...
Thanx Robin, for your remarks yesterday on religion.
I can tell when folks, like you, hit a big MEME (bigger than a paradigm;).
My peeps across the internet hit on the same one. At the same time.
Like the light bulb was invented simultaneously across the globe.
or the plane was invented at the same time.
The Big Ideas are grasped simultaneously/instantly across the globe.
Just so religion & problem solving taxonomies:
"Try to imagine for a moment the likes of Katie Couric, Anderson Cooper or the vacuous Brian Williams going on the air and directly defying the President and the whole American military establishment like that. It is simply not conceivable.
The same is true for peak oil. It’s an abstract study of many interrelated, complex factors which cannot be seen firsthand, and lots of unfamiliar data. Understanding it fully requires spending tens of thousands of hours in taxing, System 2-type thinking. (And having spent tens of thousands of hours on it, I can also tell you that for the most part, it’s deeply unpleasant.) The implications of it conflict immediately and directly with most of our experience, especially for those who aren’t old enough to remember the gasoline shortages of the ’70s. It doesn’t have the same ring as “Drill, baby, drill,” and it doesn’t rhyme. And then, if you’re one of those odd autodidactic birds who’s gone far out of your way to become literate in the subject, you’ll find yourself virtually alone with the knowledge, and most people you know will think you’ve lost your mind, your sense of humor, and your “optimism.” Tribal tendencies
"The late, great author and blogger Joe Bageant used to refer to the media as the American Hologram, a term that I have borrowed to employ frequently on this blog because it so perfectly describes what it has become, especially on television. It must be said, however, that this was not always the case. There was a quaint time in America, oh say about 44 years ago, when anchorman Walter Cronkite could effectively spell the doom of yet another American mindless military adventure by uttering the following words on the air: We have been too often disappointed by the optimism of the American leaders, both in Vietnam and Washington, to have faith any longer in the silver linings they find in the darkest clouds.
More than 100 million are unemployed in the USSA now.
Wonder how long that Syria thing is gonna keep playing on Happy TalkUSSAtv....;}
"Friday, June 01, 2012 1:28 AM
Hyperbolic Selloff Coming? IMF Discusses Spanish Contingency Plans; Madrid Denies Plans; Hispabonos Dropped From Cabinet Discussion
The latest word of the day is the already approved, then denied, then tabled plan to implement hispabonos was dropped from discussion Friday's cabinet meeting according to La Vangauardia.
In the last three months alone, Draghi has poured €3 trillion into eurozone banks in an effort to keep the day of reckoning at bay. He must have known this was an entire waste of taxpapers’ money from the start, and so as always I’m left wondering whether the guy is just an incurable optimist, or a sociopath more than happy to accept a world in which the only things left are bankers and their head offices. But whatever his motives, we are only one major bank collapse away from the sort of inflexible timetable that started the First World War.
Post Fri Jun 01, 2012 8:48 am by mcgowanjm Re: 2012 Bilderberger Meeting
Post Fri Jun 01, 2012 8:48 am by mcgowanjm The problem with being rich and powerful is that you become disconnected from reality.
No one is there(see Jeff Zuckerberg for details) to tell you different. Yes men is all you see.
You don't know your policies have failed until the guards are no longer at their posts. And then it's too late.
The enemy is at the gates.....The Non Linear is at hand.....
The market was anxious going in to the NFP print but once the dismal data point hit, things deteriorated rapidly.
Being “in” produces pleasurable effects in our brains, and being “out” produces real, physical pain. Further, our brains have evolved to make us want to seek status in our tribes, and to prefer immediate gratification over distant, theoretical considerations that might limit our consumption. (For an excellent, evergreen essay on this subject, see Nate Hagens’ post on The Oil Drum, “Fleeing Vesuvius.”)
The mere threat of being on the outs with one’s tribe can be enough to make us avoid thinking independently and rationally about issues like peak oil and climate change.
Simon Johnson: Jamie Dimon and the Failure of the Nation
No matter how you wish to frame it, the Banks must be restrained, and the financial system reformed, with balance restored to the economy, before there can be any sustained growth and recovery.
Or we can just let them collapse at the rate they're going now and let the Last war start with Peak Pollution....;}
Simon Johnson: Jamie Dimon and the Failure of the Nation
No matter how you wish to frame it, the Banks must be restrained, and the financial system reformed, with balance restored to the economy, before there can be any sustained growth and recovery."
Which bank will implode first? It’s a mugs game, but an interesting exercise in gambling. And believe me, you can bet your last cent that somewhere in a hedge fund close to you, clients are betting on this very imponderable.
However, De Guindos has stated that the IMF's stress test provides a hypothetical decline in GDP of 4% this year and 2% for next year, prospects "unreal," said.
"The report goes on to say that 70% of Spanish banks can overcome the situation without capital," he underlined Guindos, in an attempt to instill confidence in the situation of Spanish banks.
Anyone who thinks Spain's banks other than Bankia are "perfectly healthy" is a liar or insane.
Published: 04 June, 2010, 04:49 Edited: 09 June, 2010, 05:47 1967 USS Liberty (25.5Mb)
embed video TAGS: Conflict, Middle East, Protest, Law, USA
In June 1967, the Israel military attacked the USS Liberty. A survivor of that attack was onboard the Gaza aid flotilla and has survived yet again to tell the story. Joe Meadors is a pro-Palestinian activist and a survivor of the 1967 Israeli attack on the USS Liberty. That attack by the Israeli Air Force killed 34 Americans. Meadors was onboard one of the Gaza aid flotilla ships. “They Israeli military are very inept, to tell you the truth,” said Meadors.
Israeli forces were unable to sink an unarmed US Naval ship and were unable to adequately engage the Turkish liner.
“It was an illegal attack. We were on the high seas conducting legal activities. They admitted that they closed the area for military purposes but they, we tried to find out the boundaries of that area and they wouldn’t tell us,” said Meadors.
Meadors said that they violated international waters both in the recent flotilla attack and in 1967 at the attack of the USS Liberty, stating that Israel also violated international law by using unmarked aircraft. “They’re just a bunch of rag-tag people who think they can do no wrong.
Every time they speak they say they don’t break any laws, they always abide by international laws. But, they break them with impunity and the US Government is not going to hold them accountable, nobody is,” said Meadors. Meadors expects an investigation will show that Israel violated international law
“My husband died serving his country,” his wife, Allie Brazas, said in a statement released through Naval Base Kitsap.
“He loved his job. We will all miss him and we will never forget him. He is my hero.” Brazas’ father told the Greensboro News-Record that the sailor was shot while trying to help a soldier get in a helicopter.
“I’m proud of him …,” father Ed Brazas told the newspaper. “Freedom is not cheap. We pay for it with the dearest blood.” Brazas is the sixth Washington-based service member to die in Afghanistan this month.
Five soldiers from Joint Base Lewis-McChord have been killed in May. Brazas’ K-9 partner, a dog named Sicario, survived the attack that killed the handler, Danaher said.
***** He is my hero.” Brazas’ father told the Greensboro News-Record that the sailor was shot while trying to help a soldier get in a helicopter. *****
The only reason for helping someone into a helo on the battle field is that it's an ambulance.....
Several dozen of US-NATO invaders killed, 2 helicopters destroyed in martyrdom operation Zabihullah Mujahid E-mail Print PDF Friday, 11 Rajab 1433 Friday, 01 June 2012 17:32
KHOST, June. 01 – Mujahideen officials say that scores of US invaders were killed and many hurt in martyrdom operation which going on against Sahra Bagh Airbase in the capital of Khost province.
Mujahideen stormed Sahra Bagh airbase with missiles, rockets and heavy and light weapons from three sides at about 1:00 p.m. today and at about 4:00 p.m. shot down two of the enemy’s helicopters and setting them on fire. Whereas, at five o’clock, Mujahideen carried out a motorcycle bomb attack on the gate of the Airfield, killing and wounding scores of the invaders who were carrying the dead and wounded to the ambulance helicopters landed far from the base for fear of being shot by Mujahideen. The fighting is still on going.
In 2003, Browne struck an $8 billion deal with a group of billionaires to form TNK-BP, the biggest single investment in post-Soviet Russia. Successful Move TNK-BP was Browne’s most successful move, giving BP the biggest Russian presence among the world’s largest oil companies.
Difficult Relationship While profitable, the investors in the TNK-BP venture have had a difficult relationship.
In 2008, Dudley, who was then CEO of TNK-BP, was forced to step down and left Russia after a dispute over company strategy. Last year, the billionaires took BP to arbitration after they cut TNK-BP out of a deal to explore Russia’s Arctic with state-run OAO Rosneft.
One of the Russian shareholders, Mikhail Fridman, resigned as CEO this week, casting renewed doubt on the future of the business. The board hasn’t met this year because shareholders can’t agree on a third independent director.
“It seems rather that BP’s hand has been forced,” said Colin McLean, CEO at SVM Asset Management. “I don’t think this is happening at BP’s choosing. As long as they don’t get a bad price, it draws a line under what doesn’t appear to have been handled well before.”
[quote] The result will likely be a sharp reduction in foreign crude imports into Houston but also may lead to a localized glut of light sweet crude as most Texas refineries are set up to optimally process heavier grades of oil.
But [b]the Ho-Ho reversal[/b] will also feed into the pressure on Gulf Coast crude prices in Louisiana by further upsetting the balance there. [b] The deepwater barrels that cannot get onto a pipeline heading into Texas will face price pressures on their way to market from the new light barrels on Ho-Ho as well as the expected increase in Gulf of Mexico output.[/b] Of course, nothing here means that the Gulf Coast will experience anything like the massive discounts seen at Cushing in recent years [/quote]
The deepwater barrels that cannot get onto a pipeline heading into Texas will face price pressures on their way to market from the new light barrels on Ho-Ho as well as the expected increase in Gulf of Mexico output.
Here. Let me help....
The deepwater barrels that cannot get onto a pipeline heading into Texas will face price pressures (to match Brent) on their way to market (Europe, Asia, Anywhere but the US Mainland;) from the new light barrels on Ho-Ho as well as the expected increase in Gulf of Mexico output.
Day of reckoning time may be 2013. European governments toppled like tenpins. Obama or Romney in America hardly matters. Their agendas are similar on issues mattering most.
Both support militarism, permanent wars, imperial dominance, corporate needs above public ones, painful austerity, and stiff crackdowns on resisters. Going forward, things look grim. Households least able to cope suffer most.
Key indicators point south. The Baltic Dry index historically indicates global economic activity. In May, it slumped about 10%. Future prospects look uncertain or troubled. Only about 20% of companies ventured outlooks. Of those, over half turned negative."
" Analysts paying attention understand. Others suspect the worst. Europe is cratering in crisis. Media reports understate the severity. Sovereign debt is dangerously high. The world is awash in debt. Major banks are insolvent. Bailouts follow earlier ones."
Did you tell everybody here that you are a PARASITE that works for the gooberment mctoejam?
Did you make sure that you told everybody that YOU DEPEND 100% on TAX money to live on mctoejam?
Did you happen to mention to everybody that you are a practicing Mohammedan, (PISS be upon him), mctoejam?
Did you happen to mention that you HATE America and AMERICANS mctoejam?
Did you happen to mention how you DESPISE all US vets and active service members you foul piece of shit?
You called the game SCUM.
So ....
Lets PLAY SCUM.
SPIT ...
Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.
Here CREEP. Let ME help you tell the TRUTH about YOU creep.....
Did you happen to mention that you HATE America and AMERICANS mctoejam?
Did you happen to mention how you DESPISE all US vets and active service members you foul piece of shit?
You called the game SCUM.
So ....
Lets PLAY SCUM.
SPIT ...
Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.
With Obama's 4:12 AM MayDay Bagram Speech, immediately boarding his plane and taking off as the Taliban attacked,
I knew we were at the EndGame. By Xmas the USSA would be out.
You can tell by how a Major Bank is imploding now. The Domestic mirrors the Foreign:
"Print KHOST, Jun. 02 – More than 100 US invading terrorists and tens of their puppets were killed and wounded in the martyrdom operation hit Sahrah Bagh airbase in Khost province.
According to the details, about 11 martyrdom-seeking heroes of Islamic Emirate, Shamsullah and Azimullah Khan coming from Paktia province, Muhammad Naeem, Atiqullah, Muhammad Yaqoob Ibrahimi, Karimullah and Sabeer residents of Ghazni province, Hafiz saifullah from Paktika province, Abdullah from Nangarhar and Abdurrahman from Logar province, stormed Sahra Bagh airfield in capital of Khost province, homes to hundreds of American invading troops.
The team of 11 martyr combatants armored with heavy and small arms and explosives vests in the US military uniforms got into the facility after slamming an explosive-filled truck into the airbase building.
Firstly, Shamsullah on Friday at about 1:00 p.m. carried out a martyr attack trough a truck packed with 10 tons of explosives roughly 10 thousand kilo grams, targeting the hotels and dining areas and gyms within the base in which dozens of the American cowardly troops were blowing to pieces and eliminated.
Soon after this huge and powerful explosion, 10 of 11 martyrdom-seeking Mujahideen entered the base facility and fought with rockets, hand grenades, explosive vests and heavy and light machine guns till 4:00 p.m., killing and wounding several dozens of US invading terrorist troops.
At about 5:00 p.m. Mujahideen detonated a motorbike parked outside near the gate of the base at puppets assisting the invaders in which more than 20 Afghan puppet soldiers were killed and wounded, whereas as many as 170 motorcycles were destroyed in the explosion.
The operation went on till the evening hours of the day in manner that Mujahideen of the Islamic Emirate took the airbase under attack from both inside by 10 combatants fighting the invading forces inside the base and from outside by other Mujahideen which made the enemy forces unable to use any aerial support. Two attack helicopters and a huge military plane as well as many tanks, fuel tankers, vehicles and fuel depots were set on fire and burned to ash.
It was the worst single-day losses for the US invaders and their puppets since the “Operation AL-Farooq” began and the local and western-flounced media’s reports on this successful operation are one-sided and based on false propaganda which attempt to understate the most lethal losses inflicted on the enemies, in particular on US invaders and undermine Mujahideen success. On the other hand, locals of the area and the US invaders themselves are well aware of the ground reality which speaks for itself.
" Both the Guardian and the BBC depend entirely on the logical fallacy of appealing to authority - be it an allegedly qualified witness, or satellite imagery and overwhelming techno-babble. Both news agencies have demonstratively failed to provide any actual evidence to back the narrative they have been irresponsibly reporting since Houla erupted into violence last week.
The narrative has shifted from the Syrian army shelling civilians to death, to soldiers dismounting from tanks and killing civilians at close range, to pro-government militias dismounting from tanks and killing civilians at close range, and now finally, militants in cars, trucks, and on motorbikes killing civilians at close range - which seems to corroborate the Syrian government's own conclusion, that it was terrorists.
The BBC has already been caught outright misrepresenting events in Houla, when they used a picture of dead bodies taken years ago from Iraq in their recent Syrian coverage."
Now let's see the USSAMedia's reaction to this EpicFail.
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KHOST, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A blast was heard in the eastern Afghan city of Khost on Friday and smoke was rising near a NATO base, a Reuters witness and nearby residents said.
There was no immediate word on casualties. NATO said it was aware of an incident in the area but it was too early to comment. The Afghan Taliban said its fighters rammed a vehicle packed with large amounts of explosives into the base.
Violence has surged across Afghanistan since the Taliban began its yearly summer offensive in April, vowing to target Afghan government and security forces, as well as the 130,000 foreign troops in the country.
A police source said a gunbattle was raging near the base and local security forces were not able to get close to the area.
(Reporting by Elyas Wahdat in KHOST and Hamid Shalizi in KABUL; Writing by Michael Georgy; Editing by Ed Lane)
"Attack on coalition base in Khost thwarted Stars and Stripes Published: June 1, 2012
Insurgents detonated an explosives-laden truck near the gate of a major American base in Eastern Afghanistan on Friday, kicking off a gun battle in which more than a dozen attackers were killed, U.S. military officials said.
The attackers made it inside the perimeter but no Afghan or U.S. troops were killed, though both U.S. and Afghan troops suffered minor injuries.
The U.S. military has not released the number of injuries or whether civilians were hurt.
The attack began around 1 p.m. at Camp Salerno just outside of Khost, the capital of Khost province. After the initial explosion insurgents, some wearing suicide vests, continued the attack but were repelled by U.S. and Afghan troops, said Maj. Paul Haverstick, a spokesman for the International Security Assistance Force’s Regional Command-East. At least two of the attackers detonated their vests and Haverstick said roughly 14 insurgents died in the attack.
“They tried a complex attack ... and it failed because of the quick reaction of the forces on the ground,” Haverstick said.
The Associated Press quoted a Taliban spokesman as saying that “tens” of foreign forces were killed and wounded and that a plane on an airstrip was destroyed, though the Taliban often exaggerates casualty claims."
Someone is working hard to find if a video exists.....;}
In this report, the last of the three, NYT, WaPo, AP don't even bother to file....
AFP
1. NATO: Afghan insurgents attack coalition base Idaho Press-Tribune - 2 days ago KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan officials say a bomb has exploded at a U.S.-led coalition base outside of Khost, the ... You Report News ...
The report has been replaced by a hostage rescue....;}
Amerika won't know until lines start forming outside the bank. And even then the majority will go, 'I don't have any money in the bank to get...'
'Maybe I should go get an extra big Advanced PayDay Loan......;}
Several fighters, including some wearing suicide vests, attacked the base with rocket propelled grenades on Friday.
"As of now, we have reports of 14 insurgents killed," a spokesman for the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force said.
He said the attack on the forward operating base had been foiled, although he was not in a position to provide operational details. There were no casualties among either NATO or Afghan forces.
NATO: Afghan insurgents attack coalition base Idaho Press-Tribune - 2 days ago
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan officials say a bomb has exploded at a U.S.-led coalition base outside of Khost, the ... You Report News ... The Taliban have responded by opening up new fronts in the north and west and stepping up attacks in the east, where much of the heaviest fighting is presently concentrated.
MY Edit: And what 'Heavy Fighting' is that? I ain't heard no stinkin' reports of heavy fighting? How are we supposed to Support Our Troops if we don';t know what we're supporting?
"It was a very strong blast. Khost city shook and we heard firing," Zazai said. Gula Jan, an Afghan police official who was at the scene, said the attack occurred at Camp Salerno.
Jan said six civilians – three women and three children – were slightly wounded when a wall collapsed from the force of the explosion.
My Edit: Please...at the gates of Camp Sa;erno are nothing but Day Care Centerts?....LMFAO
NATO (whoever they are. Noting absolutely ZERO named officials ever comment for the record.....;}
said it had no reports of any civilians being hurt during the attack.
Lulzzzzz....;}
"The blast was inside the compound and then we heard firing," Jan said. "There is a helicopter flying over the base."
But again, No one but Taliban were killed. And Just took 14 shots to kill all 14....;}
U.S. Army Maj. Paul Haverstick, a spokesman for the coalition in eastern Afghanistan, said no Afghan or foreign troops were killed and only a few coalition forces suffered minor injuries.
So Paul knows....at least we have a name... Haverstick said insurgents detonated a truck loaded with explosives at the entrance to the camp. The explosion allowed other insurgents to enter the compound. Two militants wearing explosive vests blew themselves up prematurely and caused no damage.
My Edit: So the insurgents are inside the base now, but since there was no one at the entrance except for a Day Care Center, no one got hurt, as the Insurgents tripped over each other in their haste to get to an actuall target inside Camp Salerno.....;}
Afghan and coalition forces fired at the group of insurgents. A total of 14 militants died in the attack, he said. Zabiullah Mujahid, a spokesman for the Taliban, claimed that a suicide bomber targeted the base in an explosives-filled vehicle that slipped onto the compound near where coalition troops dine. He said in a statement that after the blast, other insurgents entered the compound on foot and opened fire.
"They had suicide vests, rocket-propelled grenades, heavy machine guns and hand grenades," Mujahid said. Mujahid claimed that an airplane on an airstrip at the base was destroyed and that "tens" of foreign forces were killed and wounded. The Taliban often exaggerate the number of casualties caused by their attacks. NATO said no airplane was destroyed during the attack. Forward Operating Base Salerno has a large Soviet-built airfield.
It is near Camp Chapman, where seven CIA employees were killed in a suicide attack in December 2009. Salerno and its outlying fire bases have been the focus of repeated militant suicide, artillery and sniper attacks over the past several years. One of the most brazen of the war occurred in August, 2008, when about 100 Taliban fighters broke through the perimeter of the base.
After a two-hour fire fight, helicopter gunships forced the guerrillas to retreat. On May 19, a suicide bomber blew himself up at a police checkpoint in Ali Sher district of Khost province, killing 13 people – 10 civilians, two Afghan policemen and an Afghan border police officer.
