ABC News : Taliban video showing attack on Camp Salerno,which killed or wounded 150+

[RevolutionThroughReason]

This is where your cheery picking fails.

the part you quoted.

"U.S. military officials said they did not try to play down the severity of the attack on the Salerno base. They said it is their long-standing policy to withhold information about wounded or injured troops. At Salerno, many of the service members listed as casualties went to the base clinic as a precaution to be tested for traumatic brain injury, the officials said.

now the Washington Post statement,

KABUL — A June 1 attack on a U.S. outpost near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border was much worse than originally disclosed by the military as insurgents pounded the base with a truck bomb, killing two Americans and seriously wounding about three dozen troops, officials acknowledged Saturday.

the "worse" was just the two soldiers, and that is what Washington Post relays. you can try back peddling out of that but your argument has no fuel to propel it, kicking a dead horse.

[RevolutionThroughReason]

why people try so hard to make it seem like the Taliban are skilled fighters I'll never know but this video just demonstrates how sucky they really are.

[Shah-i-Kot]

This is where your cheery picking fails.

the part you quoted.




now the Washington Post statement,



the "worse" was just the two soldiers, and that is what Washington Post relays. you can try back peddling out of that but your argument has no fuel to propel it, kicking a dead horse.

Im not cherry picking anything. You cant even cherry pick from this aritcle because it does not back anything you say at all.

Everything that you just quoted is the Washington Post paraphrasing a US official. It says "US official said"

You agree with it therefore you agree with what the US military official said.

WaPo simply is reporting what the "US official said" and what the US military is "disclosing." They arent making any of their own minds up

[Shah-i-Kot]

why people try so hard to make it seem like the Taliban are skilled fighters I'll never know but this video just demonstrates how sucky they really are.

Excuse me buddy, but am not stating anything at all about what the Taliban said or claimed in regards to this incident.


What I have called you out on is, 1) your first claim that said the attack on the base did not even happen. You had all the time in the world to post up pictures of the base (whatever it is called) and it turns it out the attack did happen.

After you got refuted there, then you simply regurgitated the US military official version of events in sequence.

Im just pointing that out. You shouldnt be getting all worked up for no reason.


The WaPo article is reporting on what US officials have said. They have not conducted an independent investigation, and nor have they made a list of what they believe to be true or not.

You are the ONLY one agreeing with the US military version of events and whatever the US military officials said.

WaPo is reporting what the US officials said.

[RevolutionThroughReason]

that's exactly my point I know you're not, this thread is ABOUT the video and you're talking about everything else but the video's contennt. watch the WHOLE video take notice they show no American deaths or of themselves engaged with the Americans just n explosion and people running away.

This was not a successful Taliban assault, just a bunch of clumsy morons

[Shah-i-Kot]

that's exactly my point I know you're not, this thread is ABOUT the video and you're talking about everything else but the video's contennt. watch the WHOLE video take notice they show no American deaths or of themselves engaged with the Americans just n explosion and people running away.

This was not a successful Taliban assault, just a bunch of clumsy morons

^^The point I am making is that you agree with the US military version of the event as in the above. Im not telling you what to believe in or not to.

Case closed.

[Afghanistan2010]

Where's your reasoning? What, are you waiting for your reliable source, CNN, or Fox News for casualty figures? When the attack first happened, The mainstream "propaganda" media said they were only several people wounded. It was only after a few weeks later did they claim 2 soldiers died. That's bs, as you could see from the blast, it was huge, who knows what the real casualties were. Not to mention the group of gunman that entered the base shortly after.

He is brainwashed rolemodel for others how it looks to be brainwashed and to fail to recognize truth.

I have reports that up to 700 troops suffered injuries,they vary from minor to major injuries.

[RevolutionThroughReason]

He is brainwashed rolemodel for others how it looks to be brainwashed and to fail to recognize truth.

I have reports that up to 700 troops suffered injuries,they vary from minor to major injuries.

If you want to see the role model for brainwashed, look no further than the guy who committed suicide just to blow up an American cafeteria

[RevolutionThroughReason]

^^The point I am making is that you agree with the US military version of the event as in the above. Im not telling you what to believe in or not to.

Case closed.

And your point is bogus and an lame attempt at derailing the thread. CASE CLOSED.

[randolph85]

i am not impressed by this attack.

[Afghanistan2010]

You would have been impressed if you were inside the base i guess.

This attack was for sure Brazen and deadly it reached some of its goals,we have no confirmed reports of the number of casualties but no doubt it must be high,because they said that the attackers in the U.S Army uniforms reached the beds of the troops,who knows how many they have killed inside the base,beside the truck bomb.