-- KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- An Afghan governor says militants wearing vests packed with explosives tried to storm a main U.S. base in eastern Afghanistan.**********
Arsallah Jamal, the governor of Khost province, says the militants failed to gain entry into Camp Salerno in Khost city, next to Pakistan's border.
The attack started late on Monday evening. Jamal says militant suicide teams were pushed away, and that coalition troops were using airstrikes against the assailants.
He says Afghan troops are reporting militants blowing themselves up before capture. A U.S. military spokesman confirms the attack and says there are no American casualties.
RELATED: Warring on their own people...
Resurgent militant extremists have in the past 10 days reduced 28 girls' schools to rubble as they work to destroy an education system that was once the pride of Pakistan.**********
A total of 87 girls' schools have been destroyed and another 62 closed by frightened teachers.
The chief of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan in the Swat Valley, Maulana Fazlullah, calling female education "a source of obscenity" ordered girls to go home and wear the burka.
WELCOME, YET AGAIN, READERS OF CANADIAN CYNIC
I keep forgetting... CC's a little sensitive about anything to do with his buddies-in-jihad.
Of course, he doesn't have a problem pissing on the memory of fallen Canadian soldiers...
Remember Canadian Cynic's message to Wanda Watkins, whose son Lane was killed in Afghanistan?
"With all due respect, Wanda, fuck you and your grief. It's not the job of the rest of Canada to continue to let its soldiers die just so you can sleep better at night."Of course, his disdain isn't limited to a single grieving mother... there's also this little gem...
Funny how that works.*