A U.S. Marine, from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, patrol as an Afghan boy looks on in the town of Garmser in Helmand Province of Afghanistan
From Yahoo News/Reuters:
U.S. Troops Died In Taliban Attempt To Storm Base:
KABUL (Reuters) - A Taliban attack that killed nine U.S. soldiers, the biggest single American loss in Afghanistan since 2005, was a well-planned, complex assault which briefly breached the defences of an outpost near the Pakistan border.
The Taliban have largely shied away from large-scale attacks on foreign forces since suffering severe casualties in assaults on NATO bases in the south in 2006. Instead the militants have scaled up hit-and-run attacks and suicide and roadside bombs.
"The insurgents went into an adjacent village, drove the villagers out, used their homes and a mosque as a base from which to launch the attack and fire on the outpost," said NATO spokesman Mark Laity on Monday.
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More News On Afghanistan
Afghanistan: Hundreds repelled from NATO outpost -- CNN
Officials: More Than 100 Militants Attacked, Breached U.S. Base -- FOX News
9 U.S. Troops Killed In Bold Afghan Attack -- CBS News
9 Americans Killed in Attack in Afghanistan -- ABC News
Afghanistan: Nine US troops killed as Taliban attack remote base close to Pakistan border -- Guardian
Taliban fighters penetrate US Afghanistan base to kill nine American troops -- Telegraph
Afghanistan: Nine US troops killed as Taliban attack remote base close to Pakistan border -- Guardian
Nine US soldiers killed in Afghanistan as Taliban attacks base -- Times Online
Rural Afghan Base Attacked; 9 Dead -- Time Magazine
9 Americans killed in attack in Afghanistan -- Newsweek
Afghanistan attack kills 9 U.S. soldiers -- LA Times
Militants breached US Afghan base -- BBC News
Ten foreign troops killed in Afghanistan in militant attacks -- Canada.com
Coalition: 40 militants killed in Afghan battle -- MSNBC
Pakistan Militants Focus on Afghanistan -- ABC News
Deadly U.S. Army outpost assault in Afghanistan underscores growing threat -- Christian Science Monitor
American and British troops face a switch from Iraq to Afghanistan -- Times Online
Pakistan marble helps Taliban stay in business -- International Herald Tribune
Reporting in a danger zone: Held first by the Taliban, and then by Pakistan -- International Herald Tribune
Pakistan fears over US air raids -- BBC News
No operations by foreign troops in Pakistan: Gilani -- Times Of India
US must not opt for hot pursuit: Zardari -- Daily Times
Sons Of The Soil Rise Up Afghanistan's Taliban -- Pakistan Daily
Afghan leader directly blames Pakistan for attacks -- Yahoo News
FACTBOX: Security developments in Afghanistan -- Reuters
My Comment: Any pretext that the Taliban use Pakistan as a safe haven were confirmed this weekend. To have hundreds of Taliban soldiers attack a forward American base requires strategy, coordination, training, planning, and arms supplies. The consequences of this attack will now mean U.S. intervention into Pakistan's tribal areas .... first by Predator drones, later by ground forces or wing air attacks.
For American diplomacy .... this is a disaster. There are many elements in the Pakistan Government, military, and Intelligence services that are now clearly and actively involved in Afghanistan's internal affairs. The billions that Pakistan has received in u.S. aid is now being used against the U.S.
While the many elements in the Pakistan ruling class may be happy with what is happening, they do not realize that the Afghan/Pakistan war is now escalating to a hot and regional conflict that will be directly impacting them.
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