Another ineffective attack by Taliban

Washington Post:

A suicide car bomb outside a NATO military base in a western Afghan city Saturday killed two Afghans and wounded seven others _ the second such attack on a foreign military base in as many days.

The explosions highlighted the increasing risk to foreign forces as they expand into new areas across Afghanistan. A suicide attack outside a U.S.-led coalition base Friday wounded two U.S. military service members and one U.S. civilian contractor in southern Helmand province.

The second paragraph of this story points out how clueless some reporters are about the significance of enemy failed attacks. If anything the attacks highlight the incompetance of the enemy.

Saturday's attack occurred near the gates of the base in Herat city, which is home to hundreds of Italian soldiers, said police chief Gen. Mohammed Ayub Salingi.

A spokesman for the NATO force, Warrant Officer Cosimo Argentieri, said no foreign troops were killed. He said one foreign civilian inside the base was slightly wounded in an arm.

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Salingi said a suicide attacker drove a vehicle up to the gates of the base and detonated explosives inside the car.

One of the dead was an Afghan guard at the base, and the other was a passer-by, he said. The attacker also died.

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What the writer should have noticed from this attack is that the base had pretty good security. When compared to the destruction at the Marine barracks in Beirut, this was a none event other than a demonstration of enemy intentions and incompetance.