Taliban bombs US base near Khost (Camp Salerno)

[IndianaGreen]

Source: Al Jazeera

Taliban bombs US base near Khost

Wednesday, May 13, 2009
07:03 Mecca time, 04:03 GMT

A suicide bomber has detonated a car filled with explosives outside a US base near the Afghan city of Khost.

A Taliban spokesman told Al Jazeera on Wednesday that Camp Salerno, 4km outside Khost, had been attacked.

No reports of casualties were immediately available.

The blast on Wednesday occurred at an entrance where Afghan workers queue to enter the base.

A day earlier, letters were distributed outside a nearby mosque telling people not to work with the US forces in the country.

On Tuesday, Taliban fighters took control of government buildings in Khost, barricading themselves inside and taking a number of people hostage.



Read more: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/05/200951333424357360.html

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This is the third day in a row of attacks in strategic city of Khost.

[IndianaGreen]

1. Al Jazeera has updated its story (4 dead, 16 wounded)

Al Jazeera's Zeina Khodr, reporting from the Afghan capital, Kabul, said: "A US spokesman has confirmed to Al Jazeera that four Afghan workers have been killed and 16 others injured.

"The Taliban have claimed responsibility and, according to the Taliban, they killed a large number of foreign and Afghan forces.

"This is the third time there has been an attack outside Camp Salerno with the US spokesman telling us the Taliban 'dreams of entering the base but all they're doing is killing Afghans'."

The blast on Wednesday occurred at an entrance where Afghan workers queue to enter the base.

"Yesterday, in a nearby mosque, the Taliban distributed leaflets, warning Afghans not to work for the US company KBR, a construction firm that works inside Salerno, warning them that if they continue working with them, they will be punished," Khodr reported.

Salerno is the third-largest US base in Afghanistan.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/05/200951333424357360.html

[Bobbieo]

2. IG - I share your sentiments about the Taliban and feel they are the most despicable

people on earth. I just finished reading Dan Brown's "Angels & Demons", again, and think the Hashishian character typifies the Taliban as it is today.

[IndianaGreen]

3. I haven't read that book, although I did read The Da Vinci Code before seeing the movie

I can't wait to see the film version of "Angels and Demons." Hashishian, you say.

The Lost Symbol is coming out in print soon:

http://www.danbrown.com/the-lost-symbol.html

[Bobbieo]

4. The Hashishian is the killer and his opinion of women is a "real killer".

Angels & Demons was originally published in 2000 before Bush and Iraq but it still does typify the Taliban in Afghanistan.

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