Pentagon Condemns Taliban Attack on Base Housing Hundreds of US Troops
8 Apr 2021
Stars and Stripes | By Phillip Walter Wellman
KABUL, Afghanistan -- The Taliban fired rockets at Kandahar Airfield, causing no damage or casualties but drawing a swift condemnation from the Pentagon which said the attack was "disruptive" to peace negotiations.
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby declined to say whether the Wednesday attack violated last year's U.S.-Taliban peace deal. The attack occurred about three weeks before the peace agreement requires all U.S. troops to have left the country.
"We condemn the attack, and we believe this decision to provoke even more violence remains disruptive," Kirby said. "I can't deliver a comprehensive analysis of what we believe they were trying to achieve or what message they were trying to send."
Massoud Pashtoon, the airfield director, told Stars and Stripes on Wednesday that the attack began around 10 a.m. and ended after four rockets landed in an open field.
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