I've gotten a couple of e-mails that indicate that what happened at Camp Leatherneck was not only a well staged, complex attack against a fortified Marine Corps position...
But also a case of the biggest, most successful case of Green on Blue fire.
It is being suggested that Afghan security forces were penetrated and that the attackers came from those units that were assigned to assist in the defense of that base.
That would explain a couple of irritating questions that I've had.
1. How could a force that large get that close to the base without being detected.
2. How could the base be penetrated from outside forces before Marine could respond.
Yeah. An insider attack by a large group of Afghans makes sense. It puts the entire issue in a new light. But this also makes something else clear.
If this is true then this well planned attack was intended to occur on 9/11. This was anything but a hasty attack and could not have been pulled off in the time after the Arab world went up in flames over the "film."
But also a case of the biggest, most successful case of Green on Blue fire.
It is being suggested that Afghan security forces were penetrated and that the attackers came from those units that were assigned to assist in the defense of that base.
That would explain a couple of irritating questions that I've had.
1. How could a force that large get that close to the base without being detected.
2. How could the base be penetrated from outside forces before Marine could respond.
Yeah. An insider attack by a large group of Afghans makes sense. It puts the entire issue in a new light. But this also makes something else clear.
If this is true then this well planned attack was intended to occur on 9/11. This was anything but a hasty attack and could not have been pulled off in the time after the Arab world went up in flames over the "film."
Sol,
ReplyDeleteDid you see one of the KIAs was the CO of the Squadron? http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/sep/15/yuma-harrier-jets-marine-felled-afghanistan/
no i did not! thanks!
ReplyDeleteFrustrating! The saga of 'green on blue' attacks continues. My sympathies to the men and women of VMA-211 on their loss.
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