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+++ Breaking :::: Afghanistan ::: Six Harrier Jets distroyed by Taliban.
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It looks to me Taliban almost COPIED the attack on Sri Lankan airbase in 2008.
Lucky these Taliban didn't take control of the base. Hell of a job I should say to destroy that many jets in a single raid.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 22898624 Yep that was a close one. [ link to www.telegraph.co.uk] The 1,600 acre site has over 28,000 people workking there."In the intervening years, the base has grown in size, to cover around 20 square miles and now includes Bastion 1 and Bastion 2, Camp Leatherneck, home to thousands of US Marines and Camp Shorabak, the main Afghan National Army base in the province. In 2006, Bastion’s runway consisted of a 100-yard dirt strip, designed to handle three aircraft movements a week. Today it is one of the busiest UK-operated airports and currently handles 600 aircraft a day (18,000 a month), more traffic than Luton, Edinburgh, Birmingham, Leeds-Bradford or Coventry airports. As the years passed the Bastion, unimpeded by the distant possibility of a Taliban attack, grew in size to the garrison it is today. The camp boasts its own bottling plant capable of producing 15,000 gallons of drinking water a day. It has a field hospital, equipped with two portable x-ray machines, an operating theatre, radiographic equipment, CAT scanner and an intensive care unit capable of treating up to 20 seriously ill patients."
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