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Afghanistan
Taliban attack US base near Kabul
2011-05-05
[Iran Press TV] The Taliban say they have attacked a heavily-fortified US base near the Afghan capital of Kabul as foreign forces are experiencing their deadliest days in the country.
How clever of them, to be sure.
A Taliban front man says the group has fired five rockets at Bagram airbase in Parwan province.
Actually hitting it, or aimed in the general direction just before running away?
The cut-throats claim a number of foreign soldiers have been killed in the rocket attack and that the US airbase has been severely damaged.

NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the style of the American pants...
 has confirmed the attack but rejected the Taliban's claim on fatalities.
"Sorry, didn't notice anything. But we were washing our hair at the time, which could explain it..."
The corpse count of the US-led forces in 2010 stood at 711, making the deadliest year for foreign forces in Afghanistan since the Afghanistan invasion began in 2001.

The rising number of foreign casualties has stoked opposition to the Afghan war in NATO member states as well as in other countries that have contributed troops to the mission.

NATO has admitted that the power of cut-throats in Afghanistan is on the rise despite the presence of nearly 150,000 US-led forces in the war-hit country.
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