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Saturday, May 22, 2010

Taliban attack southern Afghan base, troops wounded

Summer 2010: Roasting US soldiers!


The reckless Obama pro-Israel and anti-Iran policy will prove to be very harmful to US soldiers fighting in a number of Muslim countries. Despite Netanyahu-Lieberman defiance of Obama peace plan and the snubbing(To ignore or behave coldly toward; slight.
) of Joe Biden, the US government continues to reward Israelis by sending massive financial aid and sophisticated weaponry to Israel in order to kill Muslims.

During the same time, Obama continues to appease the Israelis by putting pressure on Iran, disregarding the agreement signed on 18.05.10 between Ahmedinejad, Erdogan and Di Silva. Iran will continue to enrich Uranium as it is allowed by IAEA; while Ahmedinejad knows that neither bankrupt America nor besieged Israel can possibly afford to open another bigger war front against Iran without burning their fingers. It seems that confident Ahmedinejad has already authorised his people to ‘assist’ the Taleban and the Iraqi resistance in order to put pressure on the US occupying military forces and mercenaries if the push comes to a shove. It must be mentioned here that US Gen. Paetreus has already warned the US administration of the negative effects of its pro-Israeli policies on his troops, who are expected be grilled in the hot summers of Baghdad and Kabul.

See who is causing all the wars and massacres in the world today? We wrongly believed that Obama will introduce a change in US foreign policy but he entered the Whitehouse and fell in the nest of Washington Jewish snakes. Furthermore, the Israeli Nazis have been killing Arabs, with US help, during the last 62 years. Enough is enough. This will be a very hot summer for the US soldiers, read my lips.

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22 May 2010 17:41:16 GMT
Source: Reuters
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan May 22 (Reuters) - Taliban militants fired rockets and mortars at Kandahar airfield in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, wounding NATO troops, officials said.

The attack came days after a brazen assault on one of the coalition's biggest bases in Bagram, north of the Afghan capital, in which an American contractor was killed and nine U.S. troops wounded.

"Kandahar airfield came under indirect fire at approximately 8 o'clock tonight and shortly afterward a ground attack was under way as well," a spokesman for NATO-led forces in Afghanistan said. A small number of NATO personnel were wounded, the spokesman said.

An intelligence source on the Kandahar base said three rockets had hit the base. One hit a helicopter terminal used by foreign troops, wounding four foreigners, one hit a shopping area and another did not hit any significant target.

The source said the Taliban came close to the airfield, fired rockets and then foreign helicopters hit back at them with gunfire.

People on the sprawling base were ordered to go into bunkers, a journalist there said. "The base came under rocket fire, which has been pretty much off and on every night I've been here for the last three weeks, maybe three or four rockets," Lucian Read said.

The Taliban have announced an offensive from May 20 against the government, foreign forces and diplomats in Afghanistan in response to NATO plans for an operation against the group's southern stronghold of Kandahar.

The attack on the Bagram air base came a day after a NATO convoy was hit by a suicide bomber in Kabul, killing 12 Afghan civilians and six foreign troops. (Reporting by Golnar Motevalli and Ismail Sameem; Writing by Sanjeev Miglani)

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