08 Feb, 2010
Did ‘pandering’ cost American lives at Afghan base?
Posted by: admin In: Around Beijing| News
By Richard Engel, NBC News Chief Foreign Correspondent
KABUL - It was six in the morning on Oct. 3, 2009, when insurgents began their assault on Combat Outpost Keating, a remote area in Nuristan in eastern Afghanistan. The attack started with small-arms fire, but soon escalated as up to 300 militants — it’s unclear exactly how [...]