KANDAHAR/KABUL/ LONDON: Taliban armed with suicide vests, guns and rockets stormed a heavily fortified airfield in Afghanistan where Prince Harry is deployed, killing two US Marines and attacking aircraft in a major security breach.
The Taliban, which is leading a 10-year insurgency against 117,000 NATO troops, said it carried out the assault to avenge a US-made film deemed insulting to Islam that has sparked deadly riots across the Middle East and North Africa.
The attack on Camp Bastion in southern Helmand province, one of the toughest battlegrounds of the war, started at 10:15pm on Friday and the base was cleared on Saturday morning, said US Army Major Adam Wojack.
Prince Harry was never in danger, officials confirmed. Although the Taliban have vowed to kill the British prince, one of its spokesmen told AFP that the assault “had nothing to do with the prince”. General Sayed Malook, head of the Afghan army in the south, said a suicide bomber blew himself up, blasting a hole in the perimeter wall and allowing insurgents to storm inside with guns and rocket-propelled grenades. “As soon as they entered the base, fighting started. Afghan forces were not involved, they only helped to extinguish the fire,” Malook told AFP.
A fuel reservoir and an aircraft hangar were set alight and it took until dawn to extinguish the blaze, he said.
The US-led NATO forces said multiple aircraft and structures were damaged in the assault on the airfield, which is used by both American and British forces.
Eighteen insurgents were killed, including the suicide bomber, and another was injured and captured, said Wojack. They were dressed in camouflage, he said, but declined to say whether it was Afghan army uniform.
A defence official in Washington said two US Marines were killed, while NATO’s US-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said some personnel were injured, but gave no details, in line with policy.
A Taliban spokesman Qari Yousuf Ahmadi told AFP by telephone that the attack was waged to avenge a low-budget American YouTube film, which has incited a furious wave of deadly anti-American violence in Yemen, Libya and Sudan, and protests in many other countries.
The Taliban, which is leading a 10-year insurgency against 117,000 NATO troops, said it carried out the assault to avenge a US-made film deemed insulting to Islam that has sparked deadly riots across the Middle East and North Africa.
The attack on Camp Bastion in southern Helmand province, one of the toughest battlegrounds of the war, started at 10:15pm on Friday and the base was cleared on Saturday morning, said US Army Major Adam Wojack.
Prince Harry was never in danger, officials confirmed. Although the Taliban have vowed to kill the British prince, one of its spokesmen told AFP that the assault “had nothing to do with the prince”. General Sayed Malook, head of the Afghan army in the south, said a suicide bomber blew himself up, blasting a hole in the perimeter wall and allowing insurgents to storm inside with guns and rocket-propelled grenades. “As soon as they entered the base, fighting started. Afghan forces were not involved, they only helped to extinguish the fire,” Malook told AFP.
A fuel reservoir and an aircraft hangar were set alight and it took until dawn to extinguish the blaze, he said.
The US-led NATO forces said multiple aircraft and structures were damaged in the assault on the airfield, which is used by both American and British forces.
Eighteen insurgents were killed, including the suicide bomber, and another was injured and captured, said Wojack. They were dressed in camouflage, he said, but declined to say whether it was Afghan army uniform.
A defence official in Washington said two US Marines were killed, while NATO’s US-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said some personnel were injured, but gave no details, in line with policy.
A Taliban spokesman Qari Yousuf Ahmadi told AFP by telephone that the attack was waged to avenge a low-budget American YouTube film, which has incited a furious wave of deadly anti-American violence in Yemen, Libya and Sudan, and protests in many other countries.
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