Yet another #Taliban propaganda video showing aftermath of group's fighters overrunning a base in Ghazni province, #Afghanistan. pic.twitter.com/AFtd16pK2P— Long War Journal (@LongWarJournal) October 10, 2017
New York Times: Afghan Army Unit Nearly Wiped Out as New Taliban Tactic Takes Toll
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — An Afghan Army unit in the south of the country was almost completely wiped out on Thursday, defense officials said, in a Taliban attack that used what is becoming one of the group’s deadliest tactics: packing vehicles captured from security forces with explosives and driving them into military and police compounds.
At least 43 soldiers were killed in the predawn attack, out of a unit of 60 based in Maywand District in Kandahar Province, the Afghan Defense Ministry said in a statement. Only two soldiers were found unhurt. Nine were wounded, and six were missing.
“The whole base is destroyed,” said Gen. Dawlat Waziri, a ministry spokesman. “When the clashes started, they detonated a car bomb close to the base, then clashes continued for a while and then they detonated another car bomb. They also had Humvees packed with explosives.”
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WNU Editor: This is the new Taliban tactic on how they were able to wipe out an entire Afghan unit .... An Emboldened Taliban Nearly ‘Wiped Out’ An Entire Afghan Army Unit Using Lethal New Tactics (Task & Purpose).
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Taliban Attack Nearly Wipes Out Afghan Army Base -- NPR
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1 comment:
Old Tactic
Earlier this year.
"Bomb attack hits U.S. base in eastern Afghanistan" - Al Reuters
www.reuters.com/article/us-afghanistan-blast/bomb-attack-hits-u-s-base-in-eastern-afghanistan-idUSKBN17Q12C
2008 Attack on FOB Salerno
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQsPKb35d0w
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward_Operating_Base_Salerno
I am disappointed, but it is so hard to keep tens of thousands of event remembered. Nay it is impossible to keep them loaded in forward memory.
The use of Humvees may be new, new to Afghanistan. They have been used in the Mideast during ISIS' reign of terror in the previuous 4 years,
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