Rare Taliban Video Shows Huge Bomb Attack On U.S. Base -- Danger Room
The Taliban and its Haqqani Network allies have released a video depicting the June 1 suicide bombing of one of eastern Afghanistan’s largest bases.
In the video, a clip of which is shown above, a group of militants pack into a squat white minibus, along with what appear to be explosives. The driver of a flatbed truck, garlanded with flowers, is shown smiling before what is presumably his final ride. A camera follows the minibus as it snakes through the security barriers outside Forward Operating Base Salerno in Khost Province, just a few kilometers from the Pakistan border. Then, a giant explosion fills the screen. The camera angle appears to be hundreds of yards away, if not further; it’s a giant boom.
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