Kabul: The Afghan Taliban on Monday released a video showing footages of militants preparing for the brazen attack on a major Nato base earlier this month.
In the Sept. 14 attack on Camp Bastion in Helmand province, 15 insurgents dressed in US Army uniforms breached the base’s perimeter fence then used automatic rifles and rocket-propelled grenade launchers to fire on planes and people around the base’s airstrip.
They managed to kill two Marines and destroy six fighter jets costing tens of millions each before they were stopped. All but one of the assailants were killed in the fighting.
The Taliban video shows men wearing US Army uniforms as they practice cutting through a chain-link fence and charging through the opening. One man indicates targets with a pointer and a whiteboard showing drawings of planes and fortifications. He speaks Pashtun, a major language in southern Afghanistan and parts of Pakistan. Words on the whiteboard are written in Urdu, a language more common in Pakistan.
A Taliban spokesman emailed the link to the video to the media but it was not possible to verify the authenticity of the footage. Nothing in the video indicates when or where it was filmed.
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