126 US trained military troops/special forces killed in latest Afghan attack

[enhanced_deficit]

Reportedly US armoured Humvee used in this attack:




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Taliban kill 'more than 100 people' in attack on Afghan military base

Attackers detonated car bomb inside complex in Maidan Wardak province, say officials

Reuters
Last modified on Mon 21 Jan 2019 10.48 EST


Afghan security officers inspect the area after the attack. One official said 126 people were killed. Photograph: Jawad Jalali/EPA The Taliban (https://www.theguardian.com/world/taliban) have killed more than 100 Afghan security personnel at a military compound in central Maidan Wardak province, a senior defence official has said.
“We have information that 126 people have been killed in the explosion inside the military training centre. Eight special commandos are among the dead,” said a senior official in the defence ministry in Kabul, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The official said the assault began on Monday morning, when the attackers drove a car full of explosives through a military checkpoint and detonated the vehicle inside the campus of the National Directorate of Security (NDS) training centre in Maidan Shahr, the provincial capital.
US army chief says death toll of Afghan security forces is unsustainable

Two gunmen entered the campus after the explosion and shot at soldiers before being gunned down during the clashes.
Defence ministry officials said the Taliban had used a US-made armoured Humvee vehicle captured from Afghan forces as a car bomb in order to breach the military fortifications.


https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/21/taliban-kill-more-than-100-in-attack-on-afghan-military-base



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No response reported from White House yet:


After Deadly Assault on Afghan Base, Taliban Sit for Talks With U.S. Diplomats


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A damaged building on Monday after a militant assault on a training center in Wardak Province run by the Afghan intelligence agency. CreditCreditJawad Jalali/EPA, via Shutterstock



Jan. 21, 2019


KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban infiltrated an Afghan intelligence base on Monday, killing dozens who worked for the agency in what officials said was one of the deadliest attacks against the intelligence service in the 17-year war with the Taliban.
While the Afghan police and army have been dying in record numbers, the loss of elite intelligence forces, who are better trained and equipped, was another indication of the violence stretching the Afghan government’s defenses, even as the United States may be preparing to withdraw some of its troops.
The attack, early Monday morning, came hours before the Taliban announced it had resumed peace talks with American officials. It was a sign, analysts said, of how violence is likely to grow deadlier even as the sides of the long war have indicated a willingness to seek a negotiated settlement.


https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/21/world/asia/afghanistan-taliban-attack-intelligence-wardak.html

[Itsback]

Abandon Afghanistan.

[TheTexan]

US army chief says death toll of Afghan security forces is unsustainable

Such a drama queen, it was 100 afghan soldiers that died, doesn't even matter

[Dr.3D]

Did anybody find our freedoms in the wreckage?

[oyarde]

So the taliban are killing other Afghans . Shocking .

[Pauls' Revere]

Abandon Afghanistan.

^^^

[dannno]

I guess the Taliban wants us to stay :rolleyes:

[Swordsmyth]

The Taliban met U.S. special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad in Qatar on Monday, the militant group said, days after threatening to pull out of Afghan peace talks and hours after Taliban fighters killed more than 100 members of the Afghan security forces."Talks between Taliban leaders and U.S. officials have started today in Qatar," Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said in a statement.
A source close to the talks said members of the Taliban's political office were meeting with Khalilzad in Doha, adding: "They will hopefully finalize a timeline and mechanism of the withdrawal of foreign troops from Afghanistan."

More at: https://news.yahoo.com/taliban-hold-...141545071.html (https://news.yahoo.com/taliban-hold-talks-u-afghan-envoy-qatar-141545071.html)

[Stratovarious]

Vietghanistan

[Occam's Banana]

Vietghanistan

"We won every battle ..."

[Stratovarious]

"We won every battle ..."
Oh yea, we can win battles, that's in the bank.

:frog:

[CCTelander]

Did anybody find our freedoms in the wreckage?


Isn't the wreckage what's left of our freedoms?

[enhanced_deficit]

it was 100 afghan soldiers that died, doesn't even matter

Although they are not of our race/culture , technically Afghan Lives Matter.

Hearing set for former Green Beret accused of murdering alleged Afghan bomb-maker (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?530583-Hearing-set-for-former-Green-Beret-accused-of-murdering-alleged-Afghan-bomb-maker&)





These 100+ Afghan victims were also US tax payers funded. Even if this news didn't make headline in US MSM, it's not because media doesn't care about civil rights of people of other countries/ races etc, there was MAGA Teen Hat Taunt scandal that unfolded at same time and this news might be in headlines bit later.

[Dr.3D]

Isn't the wreckage what's left of our freedoms?
Well, I've been told, our military is over there, fighting for our freedoms.

I just figured if they finally find them, they can come home and end the fighting.

[CCTelander]

Well, I've been told, our military is over there, fighting for our freedoms.

I just figured if they finally find them, they can come home and end the fighting.


Hope springs eternal. Personally? I'm not holding my breath.

[Dr.3D]

Hope springs eternal. Personally? I'm not holding my breath.
Well, I'm still trying to figure out how or freedoms got over there in the first place.

[CCTelander]

Well, I'm still trying to figure out how or freedoms got over there in the first place.


Thay're slippery little rascals like that, I guess?

[acptulsa]

Well, I'm still trying to figure out how our freedoms got over there in the first place.

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[Dr.3D]

http://coat.ncf.ca/ARMX/cansec/C-130.jpg

Looks like smugglers.

[Stratovarious]

Did anybody find our freedoms in the wreckage?

Yes by God, when a life is lost abroad it chips away at America's security,
prosperity, freedom, culture, our very essence of what we hold
close to our hearts.

Halliburton



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