Taliban suicide assault team repelled at Kandahar Airfield
Military • 8/04/10 8:57:38 pm • Views: 552
August 3, 2010.
A Taliban suicide assault team was repelled today while trying to breach the perimeter at Kandahar Airfield, one of NATO’s largest bases in Afghanistan.
A team of six heavily armed Taliban fighters, two of whom were wearing suicide vests, were stopped by Coalition troops outside the main gate at Kandahar Airfield, the largest logistics NATO hub in the Afghan south. More than 10,000 Coalition soldiers and contractors are based at the airfield.
“Six suicide bombers penetrated into the Kandahar airport,” a statement released by the provincial administration read, according to Xinhua. “Two of them blew themselves up and the four others were killed by security forces.”
