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Prince Harry, the third in line to the British throne
 
6 harrier distrutti e due KO.
Azione di commando dei Taleban a Camp Bastion
 
Il principe azzuro era li a giocare con gli elicotteri, paga la nonna.
 
Una ventina di morti in totale.
 
 
KABUL, Afghanistan - An audacious Taliban attack on a heavily fortified base 
in southern Afghanistan did far more damage than initially reported, 
destroying or severely damaging eight attack jets in the most destructive 
single strike on Western mat�riel in the 11-year war, military officials 
said Sunday.
 
While other attacks have caused greater loss of life, the assault late 
Friday at Camp Bastion in Helmand Province, one of the largest and 
best-defended posts in Afghanistan, was troubling to NATO because the 
attackers were able to penetrate the base, killing two Marines and causing 
more than $200 million in damage. "We're saying it's a very sophisticated 
attack," said a military official here. "We've lost aircraft in battle, but 
nothing like this."
 
The complex attack, which NATO officials said was conducted by three tightly 
choreographed teams of militants wearing American Army uniforms, was a 
reminder that the Taliban remain capable of serious assaults despite the 
"surge" offensive against them. Now the offensive is over, and nearly 10,000 
American Marines have left Helmand Province, a critical stronghold for the 
Taliban, over the past several months.
 
Together with a rash of attacks by Afghan security forces against NATO 
troops - including two over the weekend that left at least six coalition 
service members dead - the Taliban have put new pressure on the American 
withdrawal plan, which calls for accelerated troop pullouts through 2014 
while training Afghan forces to take over.
 
At the same time, tensions with the government flared Sunday as President 
Hamid Karzai condemned the deaths of Afghan women in airstrikes and 
criticized the continued American custody of hundreds of Afghan prisoners.
 
The military investigation into the attack at Bastion is now trying to 
uncover whether the insurgents had help from inside the camp and whether 
they were trained or aided by neighboring countries, such as Pakistan or 
Iran, which have allowed the Taliban to take refuge on their territory. But 
military officials and Afghan analysts said that the insurgents may well 
have prepared for their mission in significant measure by studying easily 
available satellite images on the Internet. "We don't underestimate the 
enemy," the military official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity 
because of the continuing investigation. "We know the enemy has limited 
capability to do these, but they are not a whole bunch of yokels running 
around the country."
 
The 15 insurgents conducting the attack lost no time from the moment they 
blew a hole in the perimeter at one of the closest points to the airfield, 
military officials said. They then raced toward their targets, shooting and 
setting fire to parked Navy AV-8B Harrier jets and destroying three 
refueling stations, even as a quick reaction force was mustering to fight 
them off, a military official said. "It was a running gun battle for a 
while, two and a half hours, nonetheless they were able to get to the 
aircraft before we could intercept them," a military official said, noting 
that because it happened at night it was difficult until daylight to be sure 
that all the insurgents had been killed or captured. All but one was killed; 
the remaining insurgent is in custody, the military said.
 
Two American Marines were killed in the attack, and nine coalition 
personnel, including a civilian contractor, were wounded, the military said 
in a statement. Prince Harry, the third in line to the British throne, is 
doing a tour of duty as a helicopter pilot and was stationed at Camp Bastion 
at the time of the attack, but was not hurt. Camp Bastion is home mostly to 
British soldiers, while the neighboring camp, known as Leatherneck, has 
American Marines and other service members.
 
Six of the jets, which each cost between $23 million and $30 million when 
they were first acquired by the United States Navy, according to a General 
Accounting Office report, were completely destroyed and two more were so 
severely damaged it was unlikely they could be repaired. Also badly damaged 
were three refueling stations and three soft-skinned aircraft hangars, the 
military said in a news release.
 
Determining how it was possible for the insurgents to penetrate and severely 
damage such a well-defended base, particularly one with clear lines of sight 
across miles of mostly flat plain, will be important in determining whether 
this was a unique attack or one that could be replicated either in targeting 
Western bases or Afghan ones, military experts said.
 
"The Taliban retain the command and military planning infrastructure to put 
together complex and sophisticated attacks," said Stephen Biddle, a 
professor at George Washington University with expertise in defense studies.
 
"If this is a clever surprise, it can't work twice; it tells you the people 
are clever and can do elaborate planning, using subterfuge and possibly 
captured uniforms," Mr. Biddle said. "It would be a different matter if they 
managed to blow a hole in a heavily defended perimeter - then the Afghan 
National Security Forces are looking at a big, big problem."
 
 
 
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100 persone tra cui 49 bambini va in prima pagina.
Dopo pochi giorni l'ntero mondo occidentale espelle
gli ambasciatori Siriani, senza aver prove certe.
 
Risulta in seguito che le vittime sono intere famiglie
Allawite, Scite o fedeli al governo.
 
L'intero mondo occidentale si e' sbagliato.
Volutamente... complice?
 
 

 Il principe azzuro era li a giocare con gli elicotteri, paga la nonna.
 
Perch� credi davvero che al roscio permettano davvero di fare qualcosa di
rischioso? Al massimo gioca con le soldatesse
 
Ciao!
 
 
 
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 6 harrier distrutti e due KO.
 
Inglesi?
 
PP
 


O i soldatessi.
 
A parte le battute, tattasi di un' altro esempio delle assurdita' del 
momento.
 
 
 
 

 Una ventina di morti in totale.
 
sei vergognoso... 
 

 
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Gli Harrier erano brit?
 
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