Bomb Attack Hits Secretive US Base In Afghanistan As Mattis Makes Surprise Visit To Kabul
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
Apr 24, 2017
Taliban insurgents attacked a U.S.-operated base in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Khost on Monday officials said cited by Reuters, giving few immediate details of an assault that coincided with a surprise visit to Kabul by U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis. The attackers detonated a car bomb at an entrance to Camp Chapman, a secretive facility manned by U.S. forces and private military contractors, said Mubarez Mohammad Zadran, a spokesman for the provincial governor.
“I am aware of a car bomb attack at one of the gates in the U.S. base, but we are not allowed there to get more details,” Zadran said. A spokesman for the U.S. military in Afghanistan, Capt. William Salvin, confirmed the car bomb attack. He said there appeared to be a number of Afghan casualties but none among U.S. or coalition personnel at the base.
The attack came just three days after more than 170 Afghan soldiers were killed in an attack on their base by Taliban fighters disguised in military uniforms last Friday. On Monday, Afghanistan’s defense minister and army chief staff resigned following the attack, Reuters reported.
Photos on social media showed a plume of smoke rising from the scene of the attack in the eastern province of Khost.
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