"Insurgents Attack NATO Base" -

 "Insurgents, some wearing United States Army uniforms, attacked a major NATO base in eastern Afghanistanon Saturday and a nearby camp where seven CIA employees were killed last year in a suicide bombing.

Twenty-one insurgents were killed — including 4 who were wearing suicide vests, NATO officials said — and 5 others were captured in the coordinated attacks on the sprawling Forward Operating Base Salerno in Khost Province and nearby Camp Chapman. Three more insurgents, including a commander, were killed in an airstrike as they fled the area, NATO said.

There were no coalition casualties, but two Afghan soldiers were killed and three wounded, according to the country’s Defense Ministry. Four United States troops were wounded, NATO officials said.

Also Saturday, three more American service members were killed -- two in a bombing in the south and the third in fighting in eastern Afghanistan, the United States command said.

The raids on Salerno and Chapman appear part of an insurgent strategy to step up attacks in widely scattered parts of the country as the United States focuses its resources on the battle around the Taliban’s southern birthplace, Kandahar."  NY Times

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These fellows are interesting.  0400, US uniforms on some of them in order to get close enough to have a chance to get into the compound, some actually got into FOB Salerno.

At the same time they are attacking in widely separated places because the US has concentrated its available force in Marja and Kandahar.

A thinking enemy capable of true "strategery."  Well, well.  pl 

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/world/asia/29khost.html