Terrorists just tried to assassinate Defense Secretary Jim Mattis in Afghanistan

[applegrove]

by Alex Ward at Vox

https://www.vox.com/world/2017/9/27/16374772/mattis-afghanistan-kabul-airport-attack-taliban-isis

"SNIP...........


Suspected militants unsuccessfully tried to target Secretary of Defense James Mattis in a massive rocket attack during his surprise visit to Kabul, Afghanistan, on September 27.

Insurgents fired more than two dozen rocket-propelled grenades toward Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport, where Mattis, along with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, had landed for an unannounced visit to meet with Afghan officials.

Fortunately, Mattis and Stoltenberg had already left the airport hours earlier, but Afghan Interior Ministry spokesperson Najib Danish told reporters that at least one woman died and 11 other civilians were injured in the attack.

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the strike, as did ISIS. But two Taliban commanders told NBC News that they had “insiders” in Afghanistan’s security bureaucracy that had informed them of Mattis’s impending arrival.


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[The_Casual_Observer]

1. We are at war in Afghanistan, so are they terrorists or just the enemy?

[HipChick]

2. In their country and on their terrority...

no less..

[applegrove]

6. They attacked on 9/11. They gave OBL and al qaeda sanctuary for years.

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While al Qaeda repeatedly attacked the USA.

[yardwork]

3. I'm guessing that our intelligence community is compromised.

Trump destroyed the State Department and my guess is that the CIA is equally screwed up.

[Act_of_Reparation]

4. "Surprise" visit, eh?

Not so much, it would seem.

[ImpeachTheGOP]

5. This seems a poor headline.

He had been gone for hours so they shor a bunch of rockets at nothing.