The Huffington Post
Afghanistan War: Suicide Attack On Kandahar Airfield Kills American Soldier, Two Afghan Civilians
A successful suicide bombing completed by the Taliban near a U.S. Military base. The suicide bombing has killed one American soldier and wounded three others. The bombing also killed two Afghan civilians and wounded fourteen. They say it is unclear whether this attack had anything to do with the U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta's unannounced visit to Khandahar Air Field earlier this Thursday. In that Air Field, there are twenty thousand service members and more than eleven thousand civilian contract workers. Later on we get an email from Taliban spokesman Qari Yousef Ahmadi, claiming responsibility for the suicide bombing. Panetta stayed at the base for three hours and watched as Maj. Gen. Robert spoke with his soldiers, the soldiers were asking questions and Maj. Gen. Robert Abrams answered everybody's individual question, possibly comforting them from the recent bombings. Maj. Gen. Robert Abrams spoke to only three hundred and fifty U.S. soldiers, the attack occurred after the Secretary, George Little, returned to Kabul. It is a good thing that the attacker did not reach the bases perimeter and was only near it, many more could have been wounded or possibly killed. Our American soldiers need all the courage and morale they can get to stay strong and will not back out after witnessing bombings, because it is what it is and bad things will happen to a lot of us and we can not change that, random bombings should be an experience that strengthen our soldiers and that will defend us, and defend America.
