{"id":569926,"date":"2010-05-19T09:05:02","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T13:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=85179"},"modified":"2010-05-19T09:05:02","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T13:05:02","slug":"this-time-the-taliban-attacks-bagram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/569926","title":{"rendered":"This Time, the Taliban Attacks Bagram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, the Taliban <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/85008\/a-brutal-day-in-kabul\">successfully killed at least 18 U.S. servicemembers and Afghan civilians<\/a> a suicide car-bomb attack. Today, less successfully, Taliban forces attacked the nearby Bagram Air Field, an extremely secure and massive base. They didn&#8217;t make it beyond the outer perimeter &#8212; where, it&#8217;s worth noting, civilian trucks and taxis packed with Afghan civilians seeking to supply the base are often backed up the length of a football field &#8212; but an ISAF press release says &#8220;nearly a dozen&#8221; insurgents were killed, giving an indication of how big the attack was.<span id=\"more-85179\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>That attack used &#8220;rockets, small arms and grenades&#8221; and sought to use four operatives as suicide bombers. They were killed before they could detonate.<\/p>\n<p>One U.S. contractor is dead. Nine U.S. servicemembers are wounded. Two of those nine are said to have returned to duty, and the rest\u00a0&#8221;are currently\u00a0in stable condition,&#8221; according to an ISAF press release. But it&#8217;s been a long time since there was an attack this large on Bagram. Coming a day after the Kabul attack, the message the Taliban seek to deliver is that there aren&#8217;t any safe areas for the allies of the Afghan government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, the Taliban successfully killed at least 18 U.S. servicemembers and Afghan civilians a suicide car-bomb attack. Today, less successfully, Taliban forces attacked the nearby Bagram Air Field, an extremely secure and massive base. They didn&#8217;t make it beyond the outer perimeter &#8212; where, it&#8217;s worth noting, civilian trucks and taxis packed with Afghan civilians [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4314,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-569926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}