U.S. Ignored Warnings Before Deadly Afghan Attack

Photo by Reuters/Nikola Solic

From The Washington Times:

Three intelligence reports dismissed days before eight U.S. soldiers killed.

Three intelligence reports warned that Taliban insurgents were planning an attack just days before this month's raid on two remote military outposts in eastern Afghanistan that killed eight U.S. soldiers, but the reports were dismissed as insignificant, U.S. officials told The Washington Times.

As a result, military officials did not send additional troops or make preparations to protect the 140 U.S. and Afghan troops at the combat outposts near Kamdesh in Nuristan province by the Pakistan border, the officials said.

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My Comment: I expect the armchair quarterbacks to come out and make an assessment on what should have been done .... hell .... I am one of them.

But if I was in country, and the border was only a few miles away from where you knew that the enemy was located .... I would be expecting an attack every second that I was based at this FOB. Let's face it, you are in the middle of a war zone, and that part of the Afghanistan is one of the worse for US personnel to be based in.