Sep 5 2013
Some More Old Fanny
The Daily Mail
I know that quite a lot of you chaps like to have lively, heated debate about all things Military… Not that there is fuck all wrong with frantic mass debation.
So, I thought I would slip this article in for you.
It seems that new details of the old Taliban attack on Camp Bastion in September of last year have emerged.
It also seems that the GQ magazine, being a Camp Bastion of truth were the preferred outlet of choice to report the story.
Personally, I think that its a load of old fanny.
Especially, the way that the Cobra helicopter pilot got all the ‘friendly’ troops on the ground to fire in unison – presumably at the unfriendly troops on the ground – and in doing so, light up the enemy so as the attack helicopter could blast the fucking shite out of them… COBRA? Hmmm, now where have I heard that name before?
Still, I’m sure that the fairytale will make for a good Hollywood block buster. .. Never let the truth get in the way of a good story and all that.
In fact, I would imagine that the only thing that isn’t old bollocks about the following article, is Harry Hewitt running to the safe house screaming MUUUMMMMMMYYYYYYY.
Revealed: How Prince Harry was whisked to Camp Bastion safe-house as US Marines battled Taliban suicide-squad who infiltrated base in assassination attempt
- September 2012 Camp Bastion raid was a Taliban raid that killed two United States Marine Corps (USMC) service personnel and destroyed or severely damaged eight aircraft
- The total cost to the United States military was $200 million
- The British base in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan was home to serving military officer Prince Harry
- The raid on the aircraft was also an assassination attempt on the Prince’s life by the Taliban
By JAMES NYE
PUBLISHED: 20:36, 4 September 2013 | UPDATED: 23:49, 4 September 2013
Prince Harry was frantically rushed into a heavily secured safe-house during the Camp Bastion raid of September 2012 as 15 heavily armed Taliban soldiers ran amok in the British base a new report claims.
The fourth-in-line to the British throne was serving at the base in Afghanistan when fighters dressed in U.S. Army uniforms unleashed a ground assault on September 14th and destroyed or damaged eight aircraft worth a total of $200 million.
Two U.S. Marines also lost their lives in the melee described as ‘the worst loss of U.S. air-power in a single incident since the Vietnam War’ and Captain Harry Wales, identified as a legitimate military target by the Taliban, survived the four hour battle that raged inside the base which had been thought to be impregnable.
Serving Royal: Prince Harry readies himself for duties in Afghanistan during one of his two deployments to the war-torn nation
Soldier Prince: Britain’s Prince Harry at Camp Bastion, southern Afghanistan in this photograph taken December 12, 2012, and released January 21, 2013. The Prince, who served as a pilot/gunner with 662 Squadron Army Air Corps
Prince Harry had arrived for a three-month tour flying an Apache helicopter, prompting the Taliban to threaten to kill or kidnap him.
‘We have informed our commanders in Helmand to do whatever they can to eliminate him,’ Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid had told the press four days earlier.
The British military laughed off the idea. ‘That’s not a matter of concern,’ said NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen.
Published in GQ magazine’s September magazine, the untold story of the raid paints a picture of heroism and co-operation between the militaries of the United States and the United Kingdom.
Reliving the day: Details of the September 2012 raid were state secrets until now
The complex assault unfolded around 10 p.m. under a moon-less night as the Taliban suicide squad approached the heavily guarded perimeter fence of the British military base, which had become a virtual city in the six years since it was first established.
Several square miles in size, Camp Bastion is home to 28,000 service personel from the United States and British forces in the Helmand Province of war-torn Afghanistan.
Splitting into three groups of five, the men cut through the fence wearing American military uniforms and evaded the floodlights and guard towers that dotted the perimeter.
Entering the base on the eastern side of Camp Bastion near to the United States Marine Corp aircraft hangers, the heavily armed soldiers unleashed RPG fire at the $30 million Harrier fighter jets parked on the ground.
Captain John Buss was savoring a cigar at the end of his day by the Marine’s hanger, that being the only pleasure or vice available to the serving men and women because Camp Bastion was dry.
Devastation: The following picture shows what remains of one of the six Harrier jets in the aftermath of the Taliban attack on Camp Bastion on Sept. 14, 2012
Fiery Devastation: During the Camp Bastion Attack Nato claimed that Prince Harry was never in any danger despite the attack on Camp Bastion
He heard gunfire inside the base and noting this was weird squinted his eyes to see a group of men approaching the fighter jets.
Suddenly one of them produced a rocket-propelled-grenade launcher and fired at one of the Harriers causing it to detonate into a fireball.
At the very same moment, helicopter-squadron commander, Lieutenant Colonel Stephen Lightfoot felt his office rattle with the vibrations from the explosion.
He initially thought the blast meant the base was coming under attack from Taliban mortars but when he opened his door to see what was going on he saw two Harrier jets ablaze and billowing smoke.
Remembered: Sergeant Atwell Memorial at Camp Bastion ercted in the aftermath of his heroic actions during the battle that raged on September 14th, 2012
Combatants: Former Taliban fighters stand with their weapons during a ceremony after joining Afghan government forces in Herat on August 7, 2013 – In September 2012, Taliban soldiers attacked Camp Bastion dressed as American soldiers
It was then that he heard the small-arms fire too and the awful realization that the base, previously thought of as impregnable, was coming under a ground assault.
He rushed to ready any aircraft he possibly could and resolved immediately to put two Cobra attack helicopters into the air in addition to one Huey, general purpose chopper.
Lieutenant Colonel Christopher Raible, 40, a Harrier fighter pilot was looking forward to a Skype date with his wife when the battle commenced.
He was one mile away from the conflagration, but put himself into a jeep and drove cautiously to one of the hangers to a maintenance building where he saw three jets on fire.
Finding a dozen mechanics barricaded inside the building, Raible knew that British support was almost two miles away and that if they were to survive, he had to lead his men in a brave rearguard action.
Although none of these men had entered combat before, each one of them was a serving Marine and therefore trained in basic infantry tactics.
‘All right, I need ten Marines to go take the fight to these guys,’ he told them, and watched as each one of them gripped his rifle and stepped forward to volunteer.
Camp Bastion is the main British military base in Afghanistan. Accommodating 28,000 people it is situated northwest of Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand Province and is several square miles in size
Airborne Soldier: Britain’s Prince Harry stands by his Apache helicopter in Camp Bastion, southern Afghanistan in this photograph taken October 31, 2012, and released January 21, 2013
Indeed, as the battle raged, it became apparent in the confusion that the Camp Bastion’s size was proving to be a weakness.
Support was not arriving on time and coupled with the fact that the Marines could not tell friend from foe was hampering the efforts to stop them in their tracks.
Another man interviewed by Matthieu Aikins for GQ was Staff Sergeant Gustavo Delgado, 27, who was in the nearest barracks.
A native of Chicago’s rough neighborhood of Logan Square, Delgado was sitting with other sergeants talking about their difficult childhoods, watching Tupac Shakur’s movie ‘Juice’ when the attack exploded.
Rushing to help his comrades, Delgago saw a figure firing towards the cryo-facility – where the Marines produced oxygen and nitrogen for their jets – and took aim.
Delgado knew that if the Taliban fighters managed to blow up the cryo-unit the blasts would be more deadly than any RPG.
This was the first time that Delgago had fired his weapon in anger and he told GQ that he marveled at how clinically he took the insurgents life.
As the three groups of five were pinpointed and tackled, the first American life was lost – Sergeant Bradley Atwell.
He was hit by an RPG just as another officer, Major Robb McDonald, arrived on the scene having run to his men.
Several square miles in size, Camp Bastion was home to 28,000 service personel from the United States and British military in the Helmand Province of war-torn Afghanistan.
He was met with a confused and demoralized force, who informed him that in addition to Atwell, Lieutenant Colonel Raible had perished too.
Within an hour of the attack the situation had become clearer to the shell shocked Americans and the Marines.
The insurgents had not made it past the air wing and the military hardware and another group of five Taliban were trying to destroy the cryo-fuel unit.
The Harrier compound and hanger was a burning mess and while the British had finally joined the fight, after first having secured Prince Harry in a secret location.
Indeed, in the aftermath of the attack the Taliban claimed responsibility for the deadly attack and Al Jazeera‘s Afghanistan correspondent Bernard Smith reported that in addition to the coordinated raid targeting the aircraft and fuel, Prince Harry was the target of an assassination attempt.
However, at the time, British military officials said that Prince Harry was never in any danger during the attack.
As the fight continued, both sides realized the battle with the fanatical Taliban could potentially descend into hand-to-hand combat.
They needed to get aircraft up and involved in the fight.
The problem for the helicopter pilots was distinguishing friend from foe.
How could they tell the American soldiers apart from altitude if they were all wearing the same uniforms?
It was then that one ingenious chopper pilot had a brilliant idea: He radioed the base and told the friendly ground troops to fire in unison towards the enemy.
Destroyed: Six Harrier fighter jets were destroyed by the Taliban during their assault on Camp Bastion in September 2012
This lit up the targets and as soon as they were revealed he unleashed his Cobra attack helicopters powerful twenty-millimeter cannon on the Taliban.
According to GQ, ‘Delgado and his men, still pinned down by machine-gun fire, heard the rush of a helicopter coming in, followed by the roar of a chain gun. God what a beautiful sound, Delgado thought. The cryo plant lit up with hundreds of small explosions as the rounds impacted.
‘The Marines around him erupted in cheers.’
Using a similar technique the Huey that was now airborne opened fire near to the hangers headquarters.
‘The gunship fired, and hundreds of rounds tore into the enemy, their bodies jerking back in a macabre dance before crumpling to the tarmac,’ writes Aikins in GQ.
Mopping up the Taliban insurgents, the search continued until 2 a.m. and by the light of dawns first morning the full extent of the damage was clear.
Six Harrier jets destroyed, an Air Force C-130 transporter blown to smithereens, $200 million in military equipment gone, two dead Marines and a dozen injured British and American soldiers.
Even worse was the fact that a completely secure military base had been totally compromised.
All but one of the insurgents were killed, while the remaining fighter was injured and captured.
The Taliban claimed the attack was in response to the film, ‘Innocence of Muslims’ and that Prince Harry was the target of the attack.
Relatives of the injured raged that the British and Americans had become lax in their safety protocols because they were scaling down their presence in Afghanistan.
The Marine Corps didn’t initially launch a formal investigation into the attack—the kind that could lead to reprimands—and it has refused to release its after-battle inquiries according to GQ.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2411779/Revealed-How-Prince-Harry-whisked-Camp-Bastion-safe-house-US-Marines-battled-Taliban-suicide-squad-infiltrated-base-assassination-attempt.html#ixzz2dzR24X9L
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September 5, 2013 @ 7:25 am
Well it seems totally plausable to me that 3 groups of 5 taliban wearing fancy dress, sorry, army uniforms, could break into the ‘impregnable’ camp Bastion (by cutting through the fence!?!) and wander around until they found harrier jump jets to explode.
What a shame one of the Heroes had to break off his Tupac film and terrible childhood stories to go and save the Prince, And how lucky that those jump jets were looking a bit tired and old anyways and the US army can just buy some swanky new ones from their mates that happen to sell war planes and stuff.
September 5, 2013 @ 7:41 am
In the film Rupert Grinch from Harry potter fame plays the Prince; The Tupac watching, bad childhood hero is played by the bad boy jock from series one of Glee and the cigar smoking major is played by Ben Afleck.
Holograms of Heath Ledger and the dead one from glee are created to portray the soldiers who get killed.
Syeed from Lost shall of course play the Taliban as he always does, just CGI him 3 time 5.
12a rated of course for maximum child trauma and profits.
Oooo I feel an an Oscar coming on.
September 5, 2013 @ 8:51 am
Hang on , i thought we were fighting Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan as the Taliban were busy growing heroin , guess the poppy season is over then , nice to know , so where are Al-Qaeda fighting or are they on r and r ? , nope they been busy fighting elsewhere Al-Qaeda and Taliban Militants fighting in Syria come from Afghanistan-Pakistan (http://www.blacklistednews.com/Al-Qaeda_and_Taliban_Militants_Fighting_in_Syria_Come_from_Afghanistan-Pakistan/26876/0/38/38/Y/M.html ) , thats ok then , hang on Al-Qaeda and Taliban are militants , can’t be can they i mean how did this happen then , “The Turkish intelligence agency sent 93 Al-Qaeda and Taliban terrorists from Waziristan to Hatay province near the border with Syria on a Turkish Air Airbus flight No. 709 on September 10, 2012 and via the Karachi-Istanbul flight route” , lucky for them it wasn’t by Ryan Air ” you can’t carry all that on here ” , they would of ended up at bloody Luton airport , who writes this shit , fuck me i swear your doing this on purpose Chris just to wind me up , lmfao .
September 5, 2013 @ 9:03 am
a seven square mile base that can accomodate 28,000 people (heroes) as the MSM would call them… how much is that costing to run and supply, how many children and pensioners could those funds help… it’s a farce
September 5, 2013 @ 9:58 am
Harry Hewitt looks fast on his toes when the proverbial shit hits the Taliban fan…so fast that he left his little rag doll behind. More waste of public money that could be put to a far better use! Such as feeding, clothing, educating and housing the poor and homeless …and also rounding up all the Satanic Shills, Banksters (one & the same) Royals, heads of state & Politicians and load them like cattle on to rockets to be launched on a one way mission to the sun…..what with all that methane they produce it should keep it burning brightly for a few more years 😉 Next time let Harry Hewitt the right royal ginger minge fight his own way out of it!
Thanks to Lucy, you brought a smile to my chops this morning. Cheers 🙂
September 5, 2013 @ 10:02 am
Nice of Wikipedia to post a picture of the place and our so called government go on about security , what utter bollocks , wouldn’t surprise me if Mr Taliban said , “look nice ground view on Google earth , see we plan attack using Wiki and Google” , i give up .
September 5, 2013 @ 10:13 am
” a month before the attack, says the official, the Marines cut their forces assigned to patrol outside the wire from 325 down to one hundred—forces that might have caught the attackers before they struck.” — ” The Harrier squadron, in particular, was left almost entirely unsecured. That section of the fence line was controlled by the British, who had in turn delegated the guard-tower duty to a handful of soldiers from the minuscule South Pacific nation of Tonga, soldiers without night-vision gear whom the Marines had sometimes caught asleep on duty.” …. Well, obviously top US and UK brass have had a brainstorming session to come up with such clever moves. Maybe they’re under the illusion that this war has been a huge success and that we’re in complete control? Btw, Bastion is a shithole with a poppy field right outside.
September 5, 2013 @ 10:49 am
A-U-N (3). I was told in the early 90·s that Daddy Bush & the Cunts In Action financed the Heroin industry in Afghanistan back in the late 80·s…and it is from a very reliable source….no, not my mate Paul from the Legion 😉 When finances and weapons did not arrive directly from the US government, as promised by Daddy Bush, the war against the Russians had to be financed internally…..guess who took back the control of the heroin industry in Afghanistan? you got it buddy. See “Charlie Wilsons War” to understand who frequently finance the war games of the beast, often you will find that it is not only governments but rich business men, who·s greed is infinite & genocidal. We only have to look at the politicians who sent our friends and family to war this time to see who is profiting from this seemingly endless conflict in the middle-east. This bollocks has been going on for nearly 12 years now, thats longer than the “official” Vietnam war lasted, and I say “official” as the US started funding and sending military support to the French way back in 1950.
I trust that most of us here all see what is really going down, the same old same old that has not changed for thousands of years, the modus operandi that never changes…….False Flag waving has been going on for centuries and unless we put a stop to it by waking more people up, then it will continue as it is. The 100th Monkey Effect is kicking in as it did in the late 60·s but it·s a slow process and back then it took about 7 years to stop the Vietnam War purely by a world wide, united public cause. I come here and read Chris·s articles and the comments people leave and realise that we are getting there. Many thanks to all for sharing your thoughts, wisdom and humour.
Shiiiiiiiiiitttttttttt !!!! I have to fly Ryan Air in November and its one of the only things I·m not keen on these days, not the flying part…just the taking off and landing bit and the farcical security checks they put us through at the airports to keep the sheeple on their frightened little toes….it annoys the shite out of me having to take shoes or boots off and on whilst juggling a fucking plastic tray in one hand and my travel bag in the other.
September 5, 2013 @ 11:33 am
I think Harry would have been far more useful as a live victim of kidnap because it would leave our politicians in utter embarrassment when they prove to us that they will, after all, negotiate with terrorists. Leaving aside the fact who the real terrorists are, perhaps if they did negotiate there would be far less bloodshed.
Royalty get these cushy positions flying helicopters IN PEACETIME when in a real war if we did face invasion they’d be in different time zones from the battlefield, with different stars in the sky. Somewhere there are two men whose calling was to fly helicopters but they were passed over to give the training positions to Harry and William. They were probably from the working classes. Why do we bother fighting?
September 5, 2013 @ 7:45 pm
Rhedae (after 8) , having to take shoes or boots off and on whilst juggling a fucking plastic tray in one hand , welcome to the sperm donor clinic here’s your playboy , lol .
As for “Daddy Bush & the Cunts In Action financed the Heroin industry in Afghanistan back in the late 80·s” so does that old bat bizzie lizzie along with our bank’s and the support of MI5/6 , most of the big drug conviction’s are on those outside of the loop , the real crooks in Westminster etc don’t like anyone muscling in on their turf , bloody oiks selling coke not on says Boris .
September 5, 2013 @ 8:45 pm
I don’t know what the fuck they want to kidnap harry for ! He is not fucking royal anyway !
I always like watching Braveheart…The Long shanks !! That is how their mind really works ! (Archers ready !!) (But Sire, won’t we hit our own men ?) (Yes, but we’ll hit theirs as well !)
Also, if harry went away and got killed, it would make all the country see how we Royals put our own on the line too, for the good of the nation !!! Gaining simultaneous sympathy and support.
See, as a Royal, you still have to see the good that can come out of any situation ! Even a 1000 years later !
September 6, 2013 @ 12:31 am
A native of Chicago’s rough neighborhood of Logan Square, Delgado told GQ that he marveled at how clinically he took the insurgents life.
In his own rough neighbourhood patois, of course!
‘The gunship fired, and hundreds of rounds tore into the enemy, their bodies jerking back in a macabre dance before crumpling to the tarmac,’ writes Aikins in GQ.
The macabre dance is fathers and sons getting shot to bits by a gunship pal. Wax lyrical all you like, but we are the invaders and for what?
Insurgents – a person who rises in forcible opposition to lawful authority, especially a person who engages in armed resistance to a government or to the execution of its laws. So whose country is it then?
September 6, 2013 @ 12:48 am
Again, excellent evaluation, perception and foresight my friend.
Chris.
September 6, 2013 @ 2:19 am
Prince Harry expressive words: Ohhhh Shiiiiit !
September 6, 2013 @ 2:48 am
Fucking ginger Jew cock . Its all about trying to draw attention to the unlawful maggot family . The cunt should be more concerned about the murder of his Jew mother . OOps is that anti semolina?? Appears to be if you say they are in Frackbook You All know I hate to see any fuss about Any of them If I was over there there wouldn’t be any fuss about me and this cunt is just another silly troop involved in illegal shite war about heroin and oil .And this cunt is just a member of the public like I am or anyone else . So fucking what . Fuck him .
Cheers All
September 6, 2013 @ 4:52 am
Hi Chris! Oh…….. So you read that shameful pissing contest! Sorry to yourself, Carl and also to fuck the state btw.
http://www.ancestry.ca/name-origin?surname=raible
Raible Name Meaning
South German (Swabia): variant diminutive form of a derogatory Swabian nickname from Räuber ‘robber’, ‘bandit’.Variant of German Reubal or Rübal (see Roubal).
*Lieutenant Colonel Christopher Raible is suspect/a clue…… I wonder if he’s where the jets are, training their new pilots……..
“Prince Harry had arrived for a three-month tour flying an Apache helicopter…..”- I have a major problem with this “fact”. I can’t imagine why Harry would actually be in Afghanistan. I believe this aspect of the story to be faked…….. Why would the govt. or Royal family allow such a thing? To send Harry to Afghanistan would imply that they have a contingency plan if the worst were to happen…….. The Royal family and British govt are notoriously strategic in this regard…… Now I’m an intelligent fellow (if a conceited one), and I can’t think of what the UK gov or Royal’s next move would possibly be if Harry’s life were lost…….Harry could be lauded a Rigby-esque hero as much as they wanted….. it would be an international PR disaster too big to recover from!! The British establishment’s recklessness would be the laughing stock of the world. Even if the UK could keep all their associated parties silent about his deployment it would be in the obvious interest of the Taliban to make his presence in Afghanistan known to the entire world…… I am assuming that the British authorities let the Taliban know Harry was coming…… Otherwise how could they threaten to kill him while he was there? The article says they were “prompted” into the threat……. why would the Taliban threaten, and therefore forewarn, of any attack? This whole Prince Harry side of the story reeks of bullshit. Also,- there are definitive landmarks and features in Helmland as with any place/region/location….. It would be very easy prove Harry were really deployed to Helmland with some simple, genuine pics…… Why the govt and press don’t do this I don’t know…… It would be the whole PR point of his deployment one would think, surely?
“….the base which had been thought to be impregnable…….”- Well yes, just skim past the fact it’s impregnable one minute and then BOOM next minute Ahmed and the rest of the rugby team are there with AK’s and all the jets are ablaze!!!!!….Camp Bastion is in the middle of a flat area hence it is used as an airbase. These Taliban fighters coming through the fence(note singular) certainly sounds implausible. If, indeed, this story did happen, this aspect could do with explaining……. I don’t believe that they approached the base and started cutting through “the fence” unnoticed. Even if they were in US uniforms they still would/should have been challenged…….. IF this attack really happened, these fighters would have had to be smuggled into the camp……. Or cross a wide flat open space, climb a bunch of sandbag walls/anti-ballistic defenses, dodge the illumination mines and sensors, arrive at the fence(Schools have a fence. Military bases in combat zones have FENCES plural), cut through it, then destroy 6 jets and a plane before anybody could stop them………. Likely story……
“Six Harrier jets destroyed, an Air Force C-130 transporter blown to smithereens, $200 million in military equipment gone……”- I suspect this is the real motivation behind this unlikely tale, it is probably the sole grain of truth in the story(that these aircraft are gone). “Hardware” like jump jets and c-130’s/Hercules have to be accounted for to the public…….. Where did those jets and that transport plane (used for dropping paras and more….) go Barrack?…….”Gee, these fifteen guys ran up to the fence, cut through it, and blew them up.”……. What do people reckon the likelihood this is bullshit to cover up the fact the sold them/gave these hi-tech weapons of war (although slightly behind the times by 21st century modern military standards) to a party they don’t want to tell us about? Algeria? Maybe they are for Japan’s new “not-an-aircraft carrier” or India’s shiny new one? Maybe somewhere even less savory? Or is this the military industrial complex version of insurance fraud? These items will certainly have been insured for full whack and the US gov can do with the cash…… “Yep, it was parked in the garage at home.” War time insurance is big money. War time insurance fraud is also big money…….
“This lit up the targets and as soon as they were revealed he unleashed his Cobra attack helicopters powerful twenty-millimeter cannon on the Taliban.”- Chris you’re right about this. Unless these 15 blokes stood in front of some kind of metal background to conveniently cause sparks to fly like out of a movie…… The benefit of having all the uk/us ground troops fire in unison would have is to light up nobody but themselves not the Taliban…. It would only very minimally expose the Taliban fighter’s position unless tracer rounds were used in which case no need for firing in unison……. Def sounds good tho……!! Maybe they’ll make a movie about this Royal yarn to “prove” this is real!
Basically, I suspect this tale is either just an outright lie to join in with the pre 9/11 anniversary scaremongering. Or it is a full blown cover-up (that would require getting Harry into court to disprove), in order to cover up what Barrack really did with 6 fighter jets and a Hercules and get insurance pay out at the same time….. Because one thing’s for sure……. 15 guys didn’t walk up to a fence, cut through it like a scene from a kids movie and destroy them.
Thanks for the article Chris. Would’ve missed it otherwise.
September 6, 2013 @ 11:31 pm
Good post Alan. I hadn’t considered the insurance angle and all that you implied. Worth considering, as they do have history of arming the “bad guys!” Waving Harry at us would distract plenty of people from dissecting this crock. Would security really be this slack?
Thanks for your comments Chris!