Taliban knows information is a weapon

Published August 11, 2010

On Aug. 3, there was a bizarre report out of the Kandahar airfield that 10 Taliban insurgents had staged a daring daylight attack on the sprawling NATO base. According to the official news reports the assailants had discreetly approached a remote section of the perimeter fence. The first attacker detonated a suicide bomb vest in order to facilitate the entrance of the remainder. Armed with automatic weapons the nine...