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Attackers fire on U.S. Kandahar base
Fuel plane crashes elsewhere; no deaths in either incident
Feb. 13 — No U.S. casualties were reported after unknown attackers opened
fire late Wednesday on U.S. positions along the western edge of the main U.S.
base in Afghanistan, an Army spokesman said. In a separate incident, an Air
Force refueling aircraft crashed in a remote region of the country. No one on
board was killed.
AMERICAN forces did suffer one casualty, though, when an Army soldier based at
the Bagram airfield 40 miles north of the capital, Kabul, died from injuries
he suffered when a heavy piece of equipment he was working on fell on him. The
soldier’s name was being withheld until his family could be notified.
The nighttime incident at the U.S. base at the airport in Kandahar
lasted about 30 minutes and was intense for a period of about five minutes.
Apache helicopter gunships were scrambled, but it was unclear whether
they opened fire. Troops from the Army’s 101st Airborne Division, based at
Fort Campbell, Ky., did return fire, however, according to Maj. A.C. Roper, a
spokesman at the Kandahar base, known as Camp Rhino.
All lights at the base were turned off except those illuminating a
high-security jail holding prisoners of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida terrorist
network and the former ruling Taliban.
Navy Cmdr. Frank Merriman, a spokesman for U.S. Central Command, which
is coordinating the U.S. military campaign in Afghanistan, said seven people
detained by U.S. troops turned out to be “friendly” Afghan troops contracted
to provide security for the base.
“In the confusion that resulted from this thing, they were initially
detained,” Merriman told the news agency Agence France-Presse. “Once it was
determined who they were, they were released.”
Marine Maj. Ralph Mills, another Central Command spokesman, told
reporters that three other people seen near the airfield managed to escape in
a vehicle.
About 4,100 military personnel are based at Kandahar, most of them from
the United States.
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Last month, U.S. forces seized a cache of weapons under a building and in
tunnels near the base a few days after as many as 14 gunmen armed with AK-47
assault rifles briefly fired toward U.S. positions. No U.S. troops were hurt
in that incident.
NO DEATHS IN AIRCRAFT CRASH
In the air crash Wednesday, eight crew members were injured when their
Lockheed MC-130P Combat Shadow turboprop went down about 2:50 a.m. (5:20 p.m.
ET Tuesday), U.S. officials told NBC News, which first reported the incident.
Seven of the crew members were able to walk, and none of the injuries
were considered life-threatening, Marine Maj. Brad Lowell, a Central Command
spokesman, said Wednesday.
Central Command revealed few details about the incident in a statement
Wednesday, other than that it occurred in a remote area in eastern
Afghanistan.
The statement did not say what sort of operation was under way. Military
officials told NBC’s Tammy Kupperman, however, that enemy fire did not cause
the crash.
The Combat Shadow is a long-range refueling plane attached to Air Force
special operations missions. It is designed to fly low-threat clandestine
missions refueling helicopters over hostile or politically sensitive
territory, according to its Air Force specifications sheet.
The plane flies without external lighting or communications to avoid
detection, which could complicate its recovery.
OTHER DEVELOPMENTS
The CIA said it had no comment Wednesday on Defense Secretary Donald
Rumsfeld’s decision to reveal the agency’s increased role in Afghanistan.
See the latest images from the war in Afghanistan.
Following a week of skeptical news reports alleging that innocent
Afghans, not al-Qaida leaders, died in an attack last week by a pilotless
surveillance aircraft, Rumsfeld told reporters Tuesday that the strike was
carried out by the CIA without the Defense Department’s involvement. A
Pentagon spokeswoman denied that the Pentagon was trying to distance itself
from the incident.
The Pentagon announced Wednesday that it had called up more National Guard
and reserve units. The new call-ups, offset by other decreases that reflected
the end of some units’ tours of duty, increased the total number of Army,
Navy, Air Force and Marine National Guard personnel and reservists on duty by
1,928, to 75,356 from all 50 states.
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