NATO forces abandon Afghan outpost after deadly attack

Is Afghanistan turning into Vietnam? Take a hill, see men die, give up the hill only to have to take it back again? 9 lost their lives defending it and 15 were wounded. The Taliban took it back.

NATO forces abandon Afghan outpost after deadly attack
July 16, 2008

NATO said Wednesday it had abandoned an Afghan outpost days after it was stormed by militants who killed nine US soldiers.

The soldiers pulled out of the outpost in Wanat village in northeastern Kunar province on Tuesday, Afghan officials said.

"We are confirming that we have vacated our combat outpost at Wanat," NATO spokesman in Afghanistan, Mark Laity, told AFP.

"All these kinds of outposts are temporary. They serve a purpose and when we consider appropriate we will move them," he said.

The area has since been taken over by Taliban militants, an Afghan official said.
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